Wildflower Birthday Fun Fold Card
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It was the first class for the year last weekend and we had fun making three pretty cards to get the year’s birthday stash off to a good start.
This particular card is a variation of @suestampfield Susan Campfield’s Floating Vertical Bandstand card. I love all the possibilities for decorating this fun fold to add some extra wow, without it being overly complicated to make. The clear acetate that makes the ‘floating’ panel allows you to see more of the lovely patterned papers in the background. It ‘pops out’ automatically when you take it out of the envelope, so no need for instructions on how the card needs to stand for display!
I have modified the dimensions of Susan’s card to make better use of our metric A4 card stock and to add some extra real estate into the centre panel. This means it doesn’t pop out at the front as much, but you have a little more space for your embellishments. It still folds flat to go into our Medium Envelope.
I used Thick Basic White card stock for the card base which I would recommend over the lighter weight Basic White used for stamping as it makes it really robust. The lovely pastel patterns of the Wildflower Birthday Specialty Designer Series Paper were used to decorate the background panels and the contrasting gingham design (that is on the reverse of the floral) for the top and bottom bands.
In this close-up view you can see the acetate panel (Window sheet) that sits between the top and bottom bands allowing your embellishments to shine in front of the lovely background paper. The Wild Flower Specialty Birthday Designer Series Paper has 2 sheets of pre-cut pop out images that make it super easy to decorate your projects and being a specialty paper it has lots of lovely gold foil accents on one side of each sheet. The birthday greeting from the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set was stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink and cropped with the label die from the Sale-a-bration Heart Shaped Dies and added to the bottom band. I finished the embellishment with a sprinkle of cute Party Dots and a bow at the top using the (retired) Pool Party 3/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon.
You can see the fun pre-cut images in the photo above and I used the cupcakes, small flower clusters and balloons from the sheets for the ladies. My balloon is a little different as I created it using the retired Balloon Bouquet Punch, coloured it with Stampin’ Blends Alcohol Markers and added a hand drawn gold embossed ‘string’ to supplement the numbers.
The panel for the greeting is on the reverse side of the card and I have a Pool Party mat with a tiny border and a narrow strip of the gingham paper at the base. The lovely sentiment comes from the Hearts of Elegance stamp set and I stamped it in Blueberry Bushel ink.
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| Project Details | |
| Stamps | Hearts of Elegance, Beautiful Butterflies |
| Card stock & Papers | Basic White, Pool Party, Wildflower Birthday Specialty DSP |
| Â Ink | Blueberry Bushel |
| Accessories | Party Dots, Pool Party 3/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon (retired) |
| Tools | Heart Shaped Dies, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss, Dimensionals, Tombow Glue, Glue Dots, (retired) Balloon Bouquet Punch, Gold EP, Heat Tool, Bubble Bath Stampin’ Blends |
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