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Latch Fold Card for the July SU! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop

Jul 23, 2024 | Creative Creases, Stampin' UP! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop | 14 comments

Welcome to the July, 2024 SU! Demos Fun Fold Blog Hop! Each month, a group of demos share fun fold cards for a blog hop. I always learn something new and thoroughly enjoy seeing the creations of the other demos. We hope that you will use the line-up below to hop along with us.

The inspiration, and directions for my card comes from Susie Wood from Stamp with Susie, Click here to get to her Pinterest post. I’ve already made this card twice and have the third one cut and ready to assemble. If you can score cardstock, you can totally do this impressive fun fold, which will fit in a medium SU! envelope.

Since I am hand-delivering this card, I don’t have to worry about additional postage.

Here’s my latch fold thank you card:

Since this is a fun fold, I will be entering it in the gallery for the Creative Creases Challenge.

I have a notebook in which I keep templates for fun fold cards. It makes it so much easier to recreate fun folds if I have all the measurements in one place. Here’s my template and measurements for this card:

PLEASE NOTE: I MADE A MISTAKE ON THE LAST SCORE LINE ON THE TEMPLATE. YOU NEED TO SCORE AT 9-5/16 INCHES. I REALIZED MY MISTAKE TODAY WHEN I MADE ANOTHER LATCH FOLD CARD.

I used the Mediterranean Blooms suite of products for this card. The colors are spectacularly bright and sunny. It’s the first suite I ordered from the 2024-2025 annual catalog and I absolutely love it.

Take a look at all this fabulous-ness:

Cropping:

  • Using the Citrus Blooms die set, crop a Night of Navy and a two Basic White frames
  • Using both the frame and the large leaf, crop two Daffodil Delight leaf frames
  • HINT: You need to line up the frame and the leaf dies to get just the inside leaf section. If you don’t use the frame, you will just get the leaves in your paper. Trying to get the frame and the leaf dies lined up is not fun, believe me.
  • Use the Countryside Corners die set to crop two Night of Navy pieces for the front. You will adhere these together for more stability to hold the latch fold.
  • Using a smaller Countryside Corner die, crop two Basic White pieces, and adhere them together
  • Using another Countryside Corners die, crop a Night of Navy piece for the inside sentiment
  • Crop six leaf sprays from Garden Green cardstock

Assembly:

  • Unless otherwise noted, I adhered all pieces with multipurpose liquid glue
  • Adhere the extra piece of Night of Navy cardstock to the front flap of the base
  • Next, adhere the DSP to the front and the flap of the base
  • Adhere one set of Daffodil Delight leaves to the Night of Navy frame and adhere to the front of the cqrd
  • Then adhere the other set of leaves to the Basic White frame and adhere it to the inside of the card
  • Adhere the last Basic White frame to the back of the base, which will give you space to write your note
  • Stamp the outside sentiment on the white Cropped Countryside Corner layers using Night of Navy ink and adhere to the Night of Navy cropped layers
  • Add dimensionals to the left two-thirds of the Night of Navy cropped layers
  • HINT: Before removing the adhesive covers of the dimensionals, dry fit it on the front flap of the card to make sure your latch fold will fit under the sentiment panels
  • The inside sentiment is actually one long stamp, which I stamped in Night of Navy then trimmed so it would fit on the cropped Countryside Corners piece
  • Finally, adhere the Garden Green leaf sprays
  • With that, I’d finished this coordinated fun fold card, envelope, and envelope seal

I hope you will try this card. I add so many more layers than necessary to make this card. The next one I am making will be more clean and simple, so I will update this post with the link to that card when I post it.

Back to the Blog Hop:

Please play along with us, and don’t forget to upload your fun folds to the Creative Creases Challenge. We hope you will hop along with us. You can use the following links as a guide:

  1. Rae Burnet
  2. Donna Walls
  3. Su Mohr
  4. Debbie Mageed
  5. Karen Finkle
  6. Sue Jackson <<<— YOU ARE HERE!
  7. Beth McCullough
  8. Lisa Ann Bernard
  9. Maria Jose Mench
  10. Tara Carpenter

Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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July is special for a couple of reasons: First, it’s Bonus Days until July 31, 2024!

Second, and this is a BIG THING, today, July 23, 2024 is FREE SHIPPING DAY!

Why not use the free shipping for some of these ONLINE EXCLUSIVES?

Take a look at some of the NEW online exclusive products!

Here are just a few of the new products:

I wasn’t going to get a Halloween set and just make the cards I need from my stash. However, I don’t think I can resist this Potions & Spells bundle!

There’s so much more to see for the ONLINE EXCLUSIVES. When you are shopping, please use the HoST CODE below.

If you live in the U.S. and don’t already have a Stampin’ UP! demo from whom you order, I would be honored to work with you.

When prompted, please enter the following HOST CODE:

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Stars &/or Stripes for Cardz 4 Guys #347 & Double Trouble #166 & TSOT 646

May 14, 2024 | Cardz 4 Guyz, Double Trouble Challenge, Try Stampin on Tuesday | 8 comments

Welcome to the newest Cardz 4 Guyz challenge! Our host for challenge #347, Dawn, chose Stars &/or Stripes 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!

Thing #1’s challenge requirement on the Double Trouble Challenge #166 is to use things that are unmatched or from my “stash or trash”. I chose “stash”. Since I need to resupply my “stash” of thank you cards at work, that’s what I created for these challenges.

One of my cards also qualifies for the current Try a Sketch on Tuesday.

Here are my cards for this challenge:

Here’s the Thing # 1 banner:

“Stash & Trash”

This DSP (designer series paper) retired on May 1, 2023, and the Starry Sky color retired on May 1, 2024. I still love this DSP and the Starry Sky/Gray Granite color combination. Sadly, I don’t have much of the DSP left. The Gray Granite ribbon is also retired. The last time I used this paper, I stamped and cropped the leaf sprays and had them stashed in the same envelope as the Nature’s Prints dies. This stamp set and coordinating die set also retired on May 1, 2024. Since everything is retired, or stamped and cropped already, I think I’ve really used stuff from my stash.

I thought I would be able to enter this card into the Tuesday Morning Sketches to go along with the Double Trouble Challenge, but I missed a layer of angled paper. However, out of the four cards, this is my favorite.

Here’s the sketch for TSOT 646:

Things to Know:

  • I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere the DSP pieces of paper, and to the cardstock.
  • I added dimensionals under the sentiment banners and the Starry Sky cropped leaf sprays.
  • In addition to using DSP for each envelope flap, I stamped a partial leaf spray on the bottom, right-hand corner of the front of the envelopes.
  • I also punched four 1-inch circles of DSP for the envelope seals. After running them through my XYRON create-a-sticker, I put one seal in each envelope.
  • After running white cardstock through my Cut & Emboss machine using the Ferns 3D embossing folder, I trimmed each to size.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

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Current and Online Exclusive DSP

While I like so much of the new format of the Stampin” UP! annual catalog, I really miss having the DSP all in one place at the back of the catalog. In addition, I find that I need to know what DSP is currently available in the online exclusives. Therefore, I created a spreadsheet for all the current DSP. I broke it up into sections for the 6 x 6 inch, 12 x 12 inch, and the online exclusive DSP and I got it all on one page. The font is small, but I left the doc as a Excel doc so you can download it and change the size if you want.

You can find the Excel doc here:

DSP-Annual-Catalog-Online-Exclusives-2024-2025-05.11.2024Download

What’s just as exciting as the new 2024 – 2025 Annual Catalog?   That would be the new kits now available.  They are fabulous, but I must get the one with the adorable dogs ASAP after it comes back in stock!

Take a look at these all-inclusive kits!  All you need to add is a pair of snips/scissors and an acrylic block for stamping. 

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If you live in the U.S. and don’t already have a Stampin’ UP! demo from whom you order, I would be honored to work with you.

When prompted, please enter the following HOST CODE:

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Thanks again for stopping by today!