Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #232. Our host for this challenge, Dawn, chose Metallic as the theme. When you finish here, please visit the challenge site to see what the rest of the very talented design team members created. Then, don’t forget to upload your creations to our gallery. We look forward to seeing your creations there!

Here’s an up-close picture of the sentiment on the front of the card:

I made this Z-fold card a more complicated card by adding the second flap. Take it from me, that additional flap is not needed. If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t include it, therefore I’m not going to include it on the measurements and directions.

Sentiments:

• I used gold embossing powder for all the sentiments
• Make sure you wipe your cardstock with an embossing buddy, found in the embossing additions tool kit, to remove any lint, fingertip oils, etc.
• Then stamp your sentiments using VersaMark ink and cover each sentiment with gold embossing powder.
• Make sure you flick the back side of the cardstock to remove excess powder
• Heat set the powder
• I’ve found that if I let the heat tool run for about 30 seconds before I try to heat set the powder, especially metallic powders, the process is much faster and I don’t have to worry about burning the paper or breaking the embossing

Measurements:

• The Pebbled Path base measures 11 by 4-1/4 inches, scored at 2-3/4 and 5-1/2 inches
• After I dry embossed another piece of Pebbled Path, I trimmed it to 3 by 4-1/2 inches
• Trim a piece of white cardstock to 3 by 4-1/2 inches for the inside sentiment and your personal note
• I used the Lovely & Sweet DSP (designer series paper) for this card
• The front panel of DSP measures 4-1/8 by 2-5/8 inches
• The inside panel of DSP measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches
• Trim a coordinating piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
• Then, punch a 1-inch circle of contrasting DSP for the envelope seal and run it through your XYRON create-a-sticker
• I fussy cut the gold leaves on the front of the card from the Lovely & Sweet DSP
• Thankfully, the Lovely & Sweet dies perfectly crop both the stamped images and the images on the DSP

Assembly:

• Unless otherwise stated, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere pieces together
• Adhere the trimmed DSP pieces to the front flap and inside of the card base
• Adhere the dry-embossed Pebbled Path cardstock to the front of the card by centering it on the flap and base
• Adhere the fussy-cut gold leaves
• Add dimensionals to the back of the seed pod spray and adhere
• Trim the front sentiment to your desired length and then cut chevrons in each end
• Add dimensionals to the ends of the sentiment banner and liquid glue in the middle
• Adhere the sentiment
• Using the front flap as a guide, adhere the white cardstock to the inside base
• I’ve found the easiest way to line up the front flap and the white cardstock is as follows:
  • Add adhesive to the BACK of the white cardstock
  • Lay the white cardstock face down on the back of the front flap
  • Carefully fold over the back base of the card to adhere the white cardstock
  • Since you are using multipurpose liquid adhesive, you will have a few seconds of wiggle room to slightly adjust the white cardstock, if needed
• Add a brushed brass butterfly to the front sentiment banner
• With that, you’ve finished this coordinated Z-fold card, envelope, and envelope seal

Creative Creases Challenge:

Since this is a fun fold card, I will be uploading it to the current Creative Creases Challenge.

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Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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