Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #259. Our host & fearless leader, Caz, chose Hot Air Balloons for 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 my card:

I’m very thankful that, as a design team member, I have access to the themes months in advance, especially for this theme. I didn’t have anything for this challenge, and needed to search. Luckily, the hot air balloon die set was on last chance product list for Stampin’ Up! so I snagged that. Then I turned to eBay, where I found a card kit for this retired DSP (designer series paper), which contained all the DSP I used for this card.

I’ve used this hidden flap card so many times because it lends itself perfectly to 6 x 6 inch DSP. You can see some of those cards here, here, here, and here.

As always with a fun fold card, I will be adding this to the Creative Creases Challenge where the theme is always Anything Goes with a Fun Fold.

Measurements:

• Trim a piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
• Punch a 1-inch circle from coordinating DSP and run it through the XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
• I’ve created a template for this card, and all the measurements are on the template. It’s so easy to just get it out of my fun fold mini-binder of templates and create without having to find all the measurements.

Here’s the template:

What I Did:

• II used Fresh Freesia for base pieces according to the measurements on the template
• I used Azure Afternoon cardstock for the mats, trimming it down by 1/8 inch on the short side and 1/8 inch on the long side
• Trim the 6 x 6 inch DSP down to 5-1/4 inches by 3 inches, using the left piece for the outside panel and the right piece for the hidden flap part of the card
• I trimmed a coordinating piece of the card kit DSP to 2 by 5-1/4 inches
• The mat for this piece of DSP measures 2-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches
• Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere pieces together
• I cropped one hot air balloon from the card kit DSP and the two coordinating pieces from Azure Afternoon and the center from white cardstock
• After adhering the pieces together, I colored the Azure Afternoon pieces in clear Wink of Stella
• Next, I cropped another hot air balloon from white cardstock, along with the coordinating banner
• The center part of the white balloon was cropped from Fresh Freesia cardstock scraps
• I used sentiments from the Adventurous Sky stamp set and stamped them in black ink
• I adhered the pieces together and then it was time for the front
• I created a loopy-loop bow from Azure Afternoon ribbon following the directions from Mary Deatherage and adhered it with mini-glue dots
• After adhering the bow, I used dimensionals to adhere the hot air balloon and the sentiment
• Finally, I added the enamel dots that came with the card kit
• With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set

The Loopy Loop Bow:

I was able to watch Mary Deatherage’s, from Stamps -n- Lingers, Perfectly Pears tutorial. In that video, she showed her loopy-loop bow. That’s what I used for the front of my card. I’m bow-challenged and this technique allows me to relatively easily add ribbon without adding the bulk of a tied bow. If you’ve never seen her videos, you owe it to yourself to watch them. I think she’s the Queen of the Collage. Gorgeous cards!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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