Welcome to my entry for the current Creative Creases challenge from Debbie Mageed at the Secret Stamper!

A friend/colleague’s son graduated 10 days ago. My friend’s son played soccer, our school colors are black and gold, and the mascot is a hornet. Can you guess what retired set I used to make this very special twist and pop card?

Take a look:

The Front of the Card

When this whole bee suite came out for Sale-a-Bration two years ago, I knew that I would be keeping it for quite a while! I had ordered two packs of the DSP (Designer Series Paper) and have been surely but steadily working my way through it for cards related to school ocassions.

What I Did:

• First and foremost, while this card still carefully fit in a medium white envelope, it would require extra postage. The final result turned out much thicker than I’d thought it would.
• I used Basic Black for the base of the card. It measures 4-1/4 inches by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches to create the tent card.
• There’s a very thin border of gold foil used for a mat. I actually trimmed a piece of foil to 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
• I used another piece of
• Happily, I found a hexagon punch so I could punch out a bunch of white and black shapes for the front. For me, dry-fitting was essential for the front of this card’s soccer ball look. I think I achieved the look of a soccer ball.
• In order to keep the soccer/hexagon theme consistent throughout the card, I used a number of DSP hexagon patterns. Before cropping or trimming anything else, I played around with the layers for the required elements.
• When I create special-order cards, I send the orderer (is that even a word?) a number of sentiments to have them pick what they want. The front sentiment, from Beautiful World, and the two sentiments on the inside were hand-picked for this card.
• I used the coordinating set of bee dies to crop the honeycombs out of gold foil. Thankfully, the bees on one DSP pattern perfectly matches the bee dies in the set.
• The stitched nested labels seemed to fit the sentiment and the front of the card perfectly.

Time for the Inside:

• Once again, I turned to another retired product, the large numbers dies, for the inside of the card.
• I could try to explain how to create the book (part with the 2021) and the mechanism that is responsible for the magic. However, Mary Deatherage from Stamps-n-Lingers has a wonderful step-by-step video to follow. No matter how many times I create this fun fold card, I always start with rewatching Mary’s video. You can find that video here. A couple of things to note if you are trimming paper as you follow the video: the mechanism measures 2-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Mary will go back and correct herself. The second thing to note: when Mary answers a question directed to Sue, that’s me! Really, this video is fabulous, as are all her videos.

That’s it. Ta-dah! Follow the video and you will happily create your own twist and pop cards!

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.

Have a Peachy Day!
Sue

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