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Something to Celebrate for MMM # 230 & Creative Creases

Jul 15, 2024 | Creative Creases, Make My Monday | 0 comments

Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #230. Our host for this challenge, Tee, chose Let’s Celebrate 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 my Let’s Celebrate card:

I needed a wedding card, and thought this flap fun fold would be gorgeous with this DSP (designer series paper). I love this whole suite of products, but I really think the DSP is my favorite part. The colors are gold foil, Pebbled Path, Pecan Pie, and Smoky Slate. Take a look at all this gorgeousness:

While I made the card for Make My Monday challenge, I am going to be entering it to the Creative Creases Challenge as well. This challenge is all about the anything goes with a fun fold, and I encourage you to enter your fun folds to the gallery using the link.

I found this fun fold latch card on Pinterest, of course, created by Stamp with Susie. Please click on her link because she’s got two cards using this fun fold. Don’t tell the recipients that the card wasn’t as complicated as it looks. At least that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

Measurements:

  • Pebbled Path cardstock – 5 1/2 x 11″- score at 1-11/16″; 3-3/8″; 7-5/8″ & 9-5/16″ & fold for card base
  • HINT: The Stampin’ Up! trimmer has 16 tick lines per inch. Therefore, for the 16ths of an inch, just count the tick lines. Another way to measure out the 16ths is as follows: the 1-11/16 of an inch is one tick line before 1-3/4, and 9-5/16 is one tick line past 9-1/4.
  • I added another piece of Pebbled Path cardstock for the front panel of the card. Susie only used DSP for the front. I added my white and gold DSP to this panel and adhered it to the front scored and folded cardstock. I used a piece of cardstock measuring 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 and just trimmed down 1/16th of an inch on the long side. This made the front sturdier for the latch
  • The Pebbled Path and gold script DSP piece measures 1-1/2 by 5-3/8 inches.
  • Trim another piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
  • Don’t forget to punch a 1-inch circle of DSP and run it through the XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
  • The mat layer of DSP on the inside of the card measures 4 by 5-1/4 inches
  • The white cardstock on the inside measures 3-7/8 by 5-1/8 inches.
  • You will need a 2 inch and a 2-1/2 inch punched circles for the sentiment on the front of the card.
  • Thankfully, the Lovely & Sweet dies line up perfectly with the DSP so I was able to crop two of the floral sprays for this card.

Stamping & Assembly:

  • The sentiments on the inside and the outside are gold powder set with a heat tool.
    • Rub down your cardstock using the powder pal (formerly the embossing buddy). This will allow the embossing powder to just stick to the VersaMark ink instead of oils or dust from your handling of the cardstock.
    • Stamp the sentiments using VersaMark ink
    • Cover with gold embossing powder. Make sure you flick the back of the cardstock to remove excess powder
    • Heat set the powder with your heat tool.
  • Use multipurpose liquid glue to adhere all the pieces, except for the sentiment circles.
  • Add dimensionals to 2/3 of the circle on the left side only. Leave room for the flap to fit under the circle to create the latch
  • I finished the card by adding three brass butterflies to the front for interest
  • With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal. I hope you try the card fun fold! I had so much fun with it that I made a thank you card with loads of layers since I am hand-delivering it. I’ll be posting that card, with a how-to video, for the Stampin’ Up! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop on going live at 05:30 on July 23, 2024. Come back to see that card, please.

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Lovely & Sweet with MMM # 225 and FMS634

May 6, 2024 | Freshly Made Sketches, Make My Monday | 2 comments

Welcome to the newest Make My Monday bi-weekly challenge #225. I’m hosting this challenge, and I chose Florals 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!

I used the Lovely & Sweet stamp, die, and DSP (designer series paper) for this challenge:

Here’s my card:

I combined the Florals Make My Monday challenge with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Here’s the challenge sketch:

I did turn the direction so I had a portrait orientation, mainly because I knew I wanted to use the floral spray from the Lovely & Sweet stamp and die set.

Measurements:

  • The Pecan Pie base measures 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
  • After stamping and cropping the floral spray from the bottom of a piece of Pecan Pie cardstock, I ran it through the Cut & Emboss machine using one of the basics embossing folders.
  • Trim the embossed cardstock to 5-3/8 by 4-1/8 inches.
  • Trim a piece of the Lovely & Sweet DSP to 5 by 4-1/4 inches.
  • I angled my DSP so that the high side is 5 inches high and the low side is 2-7/8 inches high.
  • Trim a piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
  • Punch a 1-inch circle of coordinating DSP and run it through your XYRON create-a-sticker to make the envelope seal.
  • Trim a piece of white cardstock to 5-1/4 by 4 inches for the inside of the card.
  • I used a piece of leftover white cardstock for the sentiment banner.

Assembly:

  • Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere the pieces of the card together.
  • I stamped the floral spray using VersaMark ink and then covered it in white embossing powder, which I heat set with my heat tool.
  • Add dimensionals to the back of the floral spray.
  • Next, I stamped the sentiment using the happy birthday stamp from the Sweetly Scripted stamp set using Pecan Pie ink.
  • Add dimensionals to the end of the sentiment banner.
  • Next, adhere the angled DSP to the embossed cardstock.
  • Then adhere the floral spray using the dimensionals.
  • Add liquid glue to the middle of the back of the sentiment and add it to the front of the spray.
  • Trim the ends of the sentiment banner so they line up with the base of the card.
  • Adhere the embossed Pecan Pie cardstock to the base.
  • I stamped another birthday sentiment on the inside piece of cardstock.
  • Then, I stamped just a corner of the floral spray stamp on the white cardstock, and adhered it to the inside of the card.
  • Finally, I stamped the front of the envelope using the same partial floral spray stamp.
  • With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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