Welcome back to the bi-weekly Cardz 4 Guyz challenge. Our host for #337, Dawn, chose elves or gnomes for the theme. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge site to see what the rest of the design team created. We’d love for you to play along with us and post your projects in the gallery.

My husband loved the Kindest Gnomes stamp and die set from last year, so I couldn’t sell it. The gnome I used is his favorite.

Here’s my card:

I found a video tutorial a couple of weeks ago from Rachel Tessman of stamp your art out with Rachel. I watched the whole video first and absolutely fell in love with her cards!! Once I started, I just kept going and created 10 of the 16 cards I need for friends at work in one night. I’ve just kept making these cards because it’s just such an easy fun fold. This card makes such an impact and is just stamping, trimming, and scoring. You can see my previous post using this fold here.

How to Make this Card:

• I used Calypso Coral for the base. Trim a piece of cardstock to 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, and score at 4-1/4 inches.
• On the front side, cut off 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 inches. I cut off 1-1/2 inches.
• The additional flap measures 4-1/4 by 4-1/4 inches. Score at 1 inch.
• Adhere the 1 inch part of the flap to the back of the base on the inside.
• The white cardstock for the inside measures 4 by 5-1/4 inches.
• The gnome DSP (designer series paper) for the front of the card measures 5-3/8 by 2-5/8 inches.
• The DSP for the inside of the flap and the outside of the flap each measure 3-1/8 by 4-1/8 inches.
• Next, I trimmed a piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap. Then, punch a 1-inch circle from coordinating DSP for the envelope seal and ran iit through my XYRON create-a-sticker.
• I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere all the cardstock and DSP.
• I colored the gnome using the Calypso Coral, light natural tones, and Smoky Slate blends combos to color the gnome.
• I cropped the sentiment banner using a Deckled Rectangle die.
• I needed a third element on the front. Therefore, I used one of the retired snowflakes and used a blending brush with Calypso Coral ink to color it.
• The snowflake is adhered using multipurpose liquid glue.

Please visit Rachel Tessman’s video for a step-by-step tutorial. Then, try this fold yourself. I still need about 30 Christmas cards, and I hope to use this fold for the majority of them. I already have all the pieces cut for three more. Truly, easy-peasy if you can trim, score, and stamp.

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Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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