The Most Wonderful Time of the Year with Creative Creases Challenge # 96
Once again, I am honored to be a guest designer for the Creative Creases Challenge. As always, the theme for the challenge is Anything Goes with a Fun Fold, and if you’ve been following my blog you already know I love finding new fun folds! Here’s the link to the Creative Creases Challenge #96!
For a number of years I’ve been making cards for a colleague/friend at school. This is the Christmas card for his parents, which includes a gift card pocket. His mother’s favorite color is basically any shade of blue, and he requested snowflakes for this year’s card. I was happy to oblige!
Here’s my card:
I used a video tutorial from Creating with Kristina for her W fold card. You can find her video here. It may look complicated, but if you can trim and score paper, this fun fold is for you!
Measurements:
- The Night of Navy base measures 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches
- The Night of Navy inside W fold cardstock measures 5-3/8 by 11 inches
- For the Night of Navy on the front, I started with a 5-3/8 by 4 inch piece of cardstock, then cropped it using the Frozen Edges die
- HINT: When using this die, you need to trim it to the desired height before you crop it out. Trust me on this.
- Score this cardstock piece at 2-3/4, 5-1/2, and 8-1/4 inches, which should fold up into equal quarters
- The white cardstock on the front and inside panels all measure 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches
- I used two other pieces of white cardstock each measuring 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches
- Trim a piece of the cardstock to 3-1/4 by 4-1/2 inches for the back sentiment panel
- I used dues from the Stylish Shapes die set to crop the front circle, and the two inside sentiments
Stamping & Embossing:
- There’s quite a lot of embossing on this card using clear, white, and gold embossing powder
- All of the snowflakes come from the One of a Kind photopolymer stamp set
- First, I stamped the large snowflake in clear on the white cardstock front panel and heat set it
- Here’s a close-up of one of the front snowflakes:
- Next, I turned my attention to the inside Night of Navy W folder piece of cardstock
- First, I stamped the large snowflakes in VersaMark ink, covered it with clear embossing powder and heat set all of them
- Next, I stamped the medium snowflakes in VersaMark ink, covered them all with gold embossing powder, and heat set them
- I did the same with the smallest snowflake using white embossing powder and heat set them
- All the sentiments come from the Greetings of the Season photopolymer stamp set
- The sentiments were stamped on white cardstock using VersaMark ink, covered in gold embossing powder, and heat set
Assembly:
- Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere the pieces of the card together
- I don’t have to worry about the card being too bulky or requiring extra postage because it will be hand-delivered and still fits inside a medium envelope
- Adhere a piece of ribbon onto the front piece of the Night of Navy cardstock snowflake and adhere it with tear & tape in the back
- Adhere the cardstock to the front piece of white embossed cardstock
- Add dimensionals to the sentiment circle and adhere
- Slide the gold embossed and cropped snowflake under the sentiment circle and adhere
- Adhere the two inside white cardstock panels
- Add glue to the left quarter of the Night of Navy W fold and adhere to the inside of the base
- Add glue to the top, bottom, and left sides of the right quarter of the W fold.
- HINT: Do NOT add glue to the whole side of this part of the W fold. You will need to be able slide a gift card in that part of the W fold
- Adhere the back sentiment piece
- With that, I’d finished this fun fold Christmas card
