Inspiring Imperfections Z-Fold with a Twist Birthday Card

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Are you wondering what a Z-Fold with a Twist is? Well, I was too when I saw Jeanie Stark’s last Mystery Monday card. So after following along with the directions, the twist is what makes this a really unique and quite wonderful card design which was really fun to create. You can read and follow Jeanie’s directions HERE to create one for yourself.

Here’s my card…

I used the Inspiring Imperfections dies and Kintsugi Inspiration Designer Series Paper. The vases are cut from the DSP using the matching dies, which made this very easy. I cut an additional vase from gold foil to shadow each vase.

The sentiment is from the (retired) Beautifully Happy stamp set and is stamped in Versa-Mark ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I flagged each end of the sentiment strip using a square punch.

and here’s the Z fold opened…

And here’s the twist…the panel on the right side is actually a 4 x 10 1/2 piece of Misty Moonlight card stock glued to the original card base and decorated with a layer of gold foil and DSP pattern. It’s basically a card within a card…pretty unique, eh?

The inside sentiment is from the (retired) Happy Thoughts stamp set. I thought it went perfectly with the sentiment on the front.

Participating in Jeanie’s Mystery Monday is a lot of fun. Not to mention, a great way to learn some new fun fold designs like today’s card.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Take care,

Rosanne

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Delightful Wishes Friendship Card – #TTTC272

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It’s Tic Tac Toe Thursday and I’m so happy to be joining the challenge design team once again. Let’s take a look at this week’s board…

This board is chock full of wonderful elements to design with. Maybe since it’s my first challenge back, I decided to go BIG and covered the whole board with my card.

Measurements

Lemon Lolly Card base: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, scored at 4 1/4

Black card stock: 3 3/4 x 5

Floral Delight DSP: 3 5/8 x 4 7/8

Details

  • Layer the black card stock to the card base.
  • Using the Spotlight on Nature dies, cut the white circle.
  • Using a solid circle die (I used the retired Layering Circles dies) cut a circle the same size as the white circle using black cardstock and glue to the white circle. If you don’t have the same size solid circle die, another slightly larger die would work. You could just trim it or leave it as an additional layer. The idea is to accentuate the cut out design in the white circle.
  • Then cut another larger circle from Lemon Lolly card stock.
  • Once the circles are layered, glue them to the left side of the DSP panel, leaving a little hanging over the edge and trim.
  • Glue the DSP (with the circle glued and trimmed) to the black panel.

  • Cut the flowers and leaves using the Delightful Wishes dies in white cardstock.
  • Ink Blend the flowers using Lemon Lolly and Peach Pie ink and the leaves using Old Olive ink.
  • The flowers are popped with dimensionals and the leaves are glued directly to the circle.
  • The tiny butterfly is hand cut from the Storybook Moments DSP.
  • Stamp the sentiment (my sentiment) is from the Storybook Friends stamp set.
  • Lastly, I embellished the card with a few Loose Frosted Dots.

I’m so very happy to be back on the Tic Tac Toe team and hopefully inspiring you to join us.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Take care

Rosanne

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Here’s a Floral Filled Tote For You

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As soon as I saw the Notes & Totes Bundle, it was in my cart! I LOVE a good tote bag! I’d be embarrassed to tell you how many L.L.Bean and Land’s End tote bags I have! However, this bundle may cure me of my obsession because now I can just design my own totes!

Measurements

Very Vanilla card base: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, scored at 4 1/4

Wildly Flowering DSP: 5 3/8 x 4 1/8

Crumb Cake card stock: 5 x 3 3/4

Very Vanilla Embossed panel: 4 7/8 x 3 5/8

Details

  • Adhere the DSP and Crumb Cake layers to the Very Vanilla card base.
  • Emboss the Very Vanilla panel using the Distressed Tile Embossing Folder and adhere to the Crumb Cake panel.
  • Cut the tote bag using a pattern from the Wildly Flowering DSP and Early Espresso card stock.
  • Using dimensionals, adhere the bag to the center of the card.
  • Stamp and cut the flowers using the Pretty Florals Bundle. I stamped the flowers in Crushed Curry and (ret) Moody Mauve and the leaves in Mossy Meadow ink.
  • Since the tote bag was popped up with dimensionals, it was easy to arrange the flowers. I also popped most of the flowers with dimensionals.
  • The tiny sentiment is from the (ret) So Sentimental stamp set and hand cut.
  • I dug into my stash for the enamel dots on the handle.

  • Since I don’t have a purpose for this card at the moment, I left the inside blank.

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Starting TODAY, June 3, all available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalog and Online Exclusives are buy one, get one 50% off! If you’ve had your eye on a new suite from the annual catalog or you really like the look of a stamp set from an Online Exclusives suite, you don’t have to choose—you can get both!

Here’s the details…

All available suites and suite products from the 2025–2026 Annual Catalog and Online Exclusives are buy one, get one 50% off.

When you shop the sale, the 50% off discount will apply to the lower-priced item (for example, if you buy a suite collection and a stamp set from a suite, the suite would be full price, and the stamp set would be 50% off).

Suite collections are available if all items are in stock; if all items are not in stock, you can still shop the available suite products.

You don’t have to buy a suite and suite products all from the same suite collection for the discount to apply. You can buy any suite products from any suite.

The discount will appear in your cart once you’ve added two items within the sale parameters to your cart.

Products are available only while supplies last.

See and shop all qualifying suites in the online store.

Thanks for stopping in today!

Take care,

Rosanne

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Another Gate Fold Gift Card Holder

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As promised, I’m back again with another Gate Fold Gift Card Holder. This time I used a pattern from the Mediterranean Blooms DSP to create a Thank You card. I think it’s really special when thanking some with a gift card, to present it in a pretty card. And as card makers, we certainly know how to do that!

The measurements and directions for this card are exactly the same as the last card I posted. You can see those details HERE.

For today’s card, I used Garden Green card stock. The focal image on the front is cut from the DSP and popped with dimensionals on two circles cut from the Spotlight on Nature dies. And the sentiments, both on the inside and outside are from the (retired) Best Year stamp set.

…and here’s the inside.

If I make more of these cards in the future, I would add card stock and DSP to the inside right panel. I think it looks a little unfinished as is. Do you have any opinions on this?

So here are the two cards side by side. I like them both equally. I would love to know if you have a preference.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Our 4 year old grandson, Luke, is coming today to spend the weekend, so ours will be busy…but fun busy!

Take care,

Rosanne

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