Gift Card Holder Fun Fold Part 2 with the Memorable Blooms Bundle

On my last post, I shared a Gift Card Holder Fun Fold using the Floral Delight Designer Series Paper.  You can find that post by scrolling down.  I had viewed a video showing the fold and felt like I could make the card.  I came out with a card that worked and was OK, but it was not made according to the video.  I promised to made another card and here it is.

I'm using the Memorable Blooms bundle for this card.  My base is Blackberry Bliss 5 1/4 x 11.  Score this at 4, 5, 5 1/2, 6, 6 1/2, 7.  Begin with the score line to the right and fold the rest back making sure everything is straight.  Now accordion fold all of the other score lines.

This is how it will look.

Use Tear & Tape Adhesive.  Cut two pieces about 3/4 inches long.  Put one at each end in the skinny areas.

Remove the backing and stick together.  There is room for a gift card (I put a business card) in the middle of the space.

Turn the card over to the back.  Place a length of Tear & Tape as pictured.

Fold the far score line over to the score line just above the Tear & Tape.  It will look like this.  This is the back of the card.

The folded card is 4 x 5 1/4.  Cut a piece of Fresh Freesia 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  Glue the card to the center of the freesia.

To decorate the front of the card, cut a piece from the Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper.  This paper is one of the free choices with a qualifying purchase during Sale-a-Bration.  The size is 3 3/4 x 5.  Run it through the Cut & Emboss Machine with the Starstruck Embossing Folder.  That folder is also a free choice during SAB.  Glue to the card front.

Use the Memorable Blooms dies.  Cut the hexagon piece and the detailed hexagon piece from Blackberry Bliss cardstock.  Cut at the same time.  Make sure that the center piece is equi-distant within the large hexagon.  Go back and forth in the Cut & Emboss Machine.  Get out all the little pieces and glue the hexagon on the front.

Cut the large leaf stem from Old Olive cardstock.  I had a scrap that already had some Adhesive Sheet on one side so I used that.  Pull off the backing and stick it right on.

The flower stamp is from Memorable Blooms.  Stamp on Basic White in Memento Black.  Color using the Bubble Bath, Fresh Freesia, and Old Olive Blends Combos.   Cut out using the die from the die set.  Adhere to the card front.

Stamp the saying in Blackberry Bliss on a white scrap.  Trim around it with paper snips.  Fold over a 3 in length of the Silver and White Sheer Ribbon and add to the card lower right with glue dots.  Add the saying with glue dots.

Add some of the Rhinestone Basic Jewels on the card.

Thank you and I suggest you scroll down to see the card that wasn't quite the card.  You might like it!

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Floral Delight Designer Series Paper Gift Card Holder Fun Fold

Have you ever watched a video and loved the fold you saw only to realize that maybe you didn't quite get it all?  All along I was loving my card, but there was a little complication here and there.  I had not listened as well as I should have.  I hate to say it, but sometimes I don't know as much as I think I do.  That's not so bad.  It's a great way to learn, right!

This is one of the last pictures I took of this card.  That's after I realized that the final measurements of my card were 4 x 5 1/4.  There's really nothing horribly wrong with that.  It's just not the standard size.  Then I remembered that the video I watched (and it was Ronda Wade) had a final piece added to the whole card that was 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  I added Daffodil Delight.  My other pictures probably won't have that layer.

The base of this card is Pool Party 5 1/4 x 11.  Score at 4, 5, 5 1/2, 6, 7.  Fold in an accordion style.  I usually start on the right leaving the large part for the inside of the card, fold back and then zig zag the rest.  Use a Bone Folder to burnish all of your folds.

This card has a gift card holder pop out on the inside of the card.

So here is an my example of going ahead and doing what you think you should do, but maybe not correct.  In the center of all of your folds, there are two 1/2 inch sections.  Use about a 3/4 inch length of Tear and Tape at each end of this area.  This sticks the area together at each end but leaves room for the gift card in the center.  Turn the card over and use a length of Tear and Tape to adhere this entire section.  This area should pop up in the center of your card.  This is where I did the wrong thing and put the length of Tear and Tape on the side of the pop up instead of the back.  So my pop up is stuck down.  The card still goes in.  In my eyes all is well.  You do still need to do the back part!

Let me go ahead and talk about the inside.  The insert is Basic White 3 1/2 x 4 3/4.  The saying in Pool Party is from the Birthday Celebration stamp set on page 43.  The flower is fussy cut from the Floral Delight Designer Series Paper.

For the front of the card, cut the blue backgroud designer paper 4 x 5 1/4 and glue.  It's helpful for the DSP to have the 4 inch measurement.  It saves paper for you especially of you are making multiples.

Use the Countryside Corners dies to cut your focal area from Pool Party.  It's hard to see but I added some dots interest using the Elements of Text.  That's a fantastic stamp set from the Online Exclusives.  Stamp in Pool Party here and there.

I cut the flower out of the Floral Delight paper using Paper Snips.  This did take a little time.  I love to cut.  Glue to the die cut.

The Daffodil Delight Satin Ribbon is part of the offerings for the Floral Delight Collection.  To see all about this collection go to pages 33-37 of the mini catalog.  Add a tiny bit of Seal adhesive and weave the ribbon back and forth.  I tried to make a bow, but do what you like.

The saying is stamped in Pool Party.  It actually says You a Happy Birthday.  Ink the stamp and then put a little sticky note or tape over the part you do not want before stamping.  Trim.  Add over the ribbon with dimensionals.  Place the Mini Dimensionals on each side of the ribbon.

Finish by adding a Tiny Bee Trinket.  These bees are very small.  I cut a glue dot in half and rolled up it.

Add the cut out to the center of the card with dimensionals.

I am going to have a part 2 of this card on my next post.  I'll use something completely different but I'll try to add more pictures to explain.  To see Ronda's video to here.  I did not explain what to do on the back very well.  Here video does.  Please forgive.  Just come back!  Please!  Thank you.  

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Beautiful Butterflies Fun Fold and a Free Download Tutorial

I'm so excited that you are here today.  I have a great fun fold to share with you using the Sale-a-Bration patterned paper called Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper.  The colors in this paper are so pretty!  They are also bright and cheery.  So today's card will make you happy, I think.  It made me happy to make it. The best part about the Bloom Impressions DSP is that you can earn it for free by purchasing $60 of product. The best part about today is that I have a free tutorial download for you with all the information you need to make the card yourself.  Want to see it?

Fun fold, you say?  It's all on the inside of the card.

Interesting.  If you want to make this fold then Download Beautiful Butterflies Fun Fold - January 2025.  All the measurements, supplies, and directions are on the download.  I do have some extra pictures of the card not included in the tutorial.  I'll share them here.

Hopefully those pics will help.  

I'm part of a group of demonstrators that are working together.  Each month we make a project with tutorial and contribute to the group.  They are put into one large group and then we are free to share them as we wish.  This month our theme is fun folds.  Oh, I think that's exciting!  Who doesn't love learning fun folds.  We'll also have new products from the January-April Mini and from Sale-a-Bration to share as well, not to mention Online Exclusives.  I share my Tutorial Medley group with my Luv 2 Create team, customers, and class attendees.  I really do appreciate all of the support.

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Delightful Wishes, Floral Delight Designer Series Paper, and Tiny Bee Trinkets

Have you seen the Floral Delight Designer Series Paper on page 35 of the January-April Mini?

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This paper is making me love yellow again!  I haven't been a big user of yellow.  I would definitely be willing to wallpaper my bathroom with one of these papers.  Funny thing about that.  I'll just share that at the end of the post!  Here is my Front Flap Fun Fold for today.

As I started to type my post, I couldn't think of the name of this fold.  Do any of the rest of you have problems remembering the names of things, and people?  My husband and I have the same problem.  Often it takes the two of us to come up with something.  I'll get part and he gets the other part or vice versa.  For today, I'm called this a front flap card.  It's one of the easiest fun fold cards and I use it a lot.

The base is a piece of Thick Basic White that measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  Add the checked Daffodil Delight on each side.  The pieces are 1 x 4 1/4.  Glue.  To make the sides match make sure each side begins at the same place on the checks.  It's a little thing, but sometimes little things can make a big difference.

The front flap is also cut from Thick Basic White.  It is 3 3/4 x 8 1/2.  Score at 4 1/4.  Put glue on the back and glue to the center of the card.  Make sure everything is straight.  If for some reason, your card is not the same along the bottom, just give it a little trim to line it all up.

Add a 3 3/4 x 4 1/4 piece of the Old Olive designer paper to the front of the flap.

Today I'm focusing on the Delightful Wishes dies.  I put this off.  I'm a little intimidated.  No longer.  My biggest tip is to use Adhesive Sheets on the detailed dies.  I didn't.  I definitely will with my next card!  My second tip is to use the illustrations in the catalog to help with the placement of the detailed parts.

Cut from Lemon Lolly, two of each of the flower outlines.  There is a large, medium, and small.  The medium one has lots of petals coming out from it.  The other medium outline is for some of the flowers in the designer paper.  Cut 2 of each of the more detailed small, medium, and large from Daffodil Delight.  Put Adhesive Sheets on one side of the paper and cut from the other side.  Pull the backing from the back.  Just pulling the backing will help some of those little pieces come away.  You might need the Take Your Pick tool.  Cut centers and a branch from Pecan Pie.  I suggest using the Adhesive Sheets on one side of that as well.  Go ahead and cut the word Wishing from Daffodil Delight.  Adhesive Sheets are a MUST for this.  Be careful not to loose the dots of the I.  That reminds me that I learned the name of the dot of an I.  It is called a tittle.  Thank you!  Cut a bunch of leaves, large and small, from the Old Olive Two Tone cardstock.  I cut some from each side.  I think that's about all of the cutting.

Assemble flowers.  The one not used actually does go on the inside.

Start your placement with the branch.  Add the Wishing and the two tittles.  Stamp the saying in Pecan Pie on Lemon Lolly and trim around.  Glue.  Lay out the flowers and then glue them down.  Leave a little area so you can tuck in the leaves.  I put a glue dot at the base of the leaves and a Mini Dimensional further out.  Smaller leaves might just have glue dots.  Curl up some of the leaf tips with your fingers.

The tiny bees are very tiny.  I rolled up a glue dot and cut it in half to add them.

For the inside, add the last flower and a couple leaves.  The saying is from Memorable Blooms stamped in Pecan Pie.

Now I will be honest and tell you that this card is not a quick one with all of the cutting you need to do.  The results are worth it though, I think.  

Now back to the bathroom.  As I said that I love the Floral Delight paper I remembered that I have a painting in my bathroom that I dearly love.  It was painted by my daughter I think when she was in college.  She did major in art and is now a high school art teacher.  Here is a picture of her painting.

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Terrific Toadstools Flip Flap Card

I have pulled out the Terrific Toadstools bundle from page 53 of the January-April Mini Catalog from Stampin' Up!  This bundle has the stamp set of course and the Terrific Toadstools punch.  It's really cute.  I am going to be honest with you.  I purchased the Terrific Toadstools because there was the free Toadstool Gardens Designer Series Paper in the Sale-a-Bration Brochure.  It's a free choice with a $60 purchase until February 28th.  I didn't even use the paper for my card today.  I'm not a big fan.

So I decided to use the Country Lace Designer Series Paper from our Annual Catalog.

Begin with a card base of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 cut from our Thick Basic White.  You'll also need to cut a piece from Thick White that measures 3 1/4 x 3 1/2.  Score this piece at 3 1/4.  Cut an additional 3 x 3 1/4 piece from Thick White and score at 3.  Burnish the folds with a Bone Folder.

Cut a piece of the striped designer paper 4 1/8 x 5 3/8.  I chose to have my stripes running vertical.  You decide which you like.  The small area on the thick white folded back becomes a flap behind the striped paper.  Add glue to the flap and glue that flap behind the stripe paper on the left with the larger part of the flap folded forward.  Now do the same with remaining thick white for the right side of the card base.  I really didn't measure how far down I glued the flaps or how far up.  I just put it where I liked it.  Glue the striped paper to the card base.  This hides where the flaps have been attached.

For the front of the flaps, cut designer paper 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 and another 2 7/8 x 2 7/8.  Glue these to the flap fronts.

To decorate the top flap I started with a piece of Granny Apple Green cardstock 1 1/4 x 3 1/8.  Cut a hill.  Stamp the 3 stemmed stamp in Early Espresso.  Notice that I only used part of the stamp so that the toadstool will fit on the hill.  Glue the hill to the flap.  The rest of the pieces for this flap have been stamped on Basic White and fussy cut except for the Melon Mambo toadstool top.  Punch it with the Terrific Toadstool punch. 

Now let me caution you about toadstools.  After I finished my card, I noticed on other samples on Pinterest that I should have had my stem coming out of the center of the toadstool's underside.  I'm just leaving it.  Future toadstool cards will have that correction.  Just find it in your heart to forgive.

Colors used are Misty Moonlight, Pumpkin Pie, Lemon Lime Twist, Pebbled Path.  Fussy cut with your snips.  The cutting is pretty easy.  Add with dimensionals or glue dots.  The glue dots give a tiny bit of dimension.

The bottom flap has the saying from the stamp set.  I stamped in Pebbled Path on a 7/8 piece of  Smoky Slate.  Angle the ends and add to the flap with dimensionals.  Add a toadstool to the right side of the flap.  The stem is punched.

Open the flap on the left.  Add designer paper 3 1/8 x 3 1/8.  I added another toadstool that mimicks the one from the lower front.

For the flap on the right of the card, cut a Basic White circle using the Stylish Shapes dies.  The saying is from the Memorable Blooms stamp set.  Make toadstools and add them to the circle.  Glue to the inside of the flap.

For the center, add a piece of Basic White that is 3 x 3.  This is where you can add any writing you wish to have.  Make a couple more toadstools.

I have added some the the white Purple Adhesive-Backed Sequins throughout the card.  Since these are flat it works perfectly.  These sequins are a free SAB choice with a $60 purchase.

Thanks so much for your time today.  I was looking at this fold on Pinterest.  The base on that card was a full base 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.  I decided that I didn't need the entire base since I had a message on the front and on the inside of a flap.  Technically, you have the whole back side of the card if you wish to add more.  I love the more lacy piece of patterned paper.  I think it adds just enough whimsy to the card.

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