Offset Gatefold Gift Card Holder

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A few weeks ago, my friend and stamping buddy, Jeanie Stark started a fun weekly challenge called Mystery Monday. The idea is to follow the clues to create a fun fold card. Here is my first mystery card…

Today’s card is a spin-off from this card. I decided to step it up a bit and add a pocket to hold a gift card.

Measurements

  • Basic White Card Base: 4 1/4 x 11, scored at 1 7/8 and 7 3/8
  • Front Panels (cut 3 of each) – Colored Cardstock: 1 3/4 x 4 1/8, DSP: 1 5/8 x 4
  • Inside Center Panel – Colored Cardstock: 4 x 5 1/4, Basic White: 3 3/4 x 5
  • Inside Pocket – Colored Cardstock: 3 1/2 x 2 3/8, DSP: 3 3/8 x 2 1/4

Details

Create the three front panels by layering the colored cardstock and DSP and adhere to the front panels.

To embellish the front, I stamped the sentiment, from the Hugs for Love stamp set and punched it with the To the Point Label. Glue the label to the left panel making sure it overlaps to the right panel.

To create the gift card pocket, layer the colored cardstock and DSP. Using a 1″ circle punch, create the notch. Adhere to the inside left panel.

The center panel is stamped with a sentiment from the Country Birdhouse stamp set.

I really like this fun fold and think it makes for a nice gift card holder. So much so that I made another one that I’ll share with you tomorrow!

As always, I appreciate that you’ve taken the time to stop by today…thank you!

Take care,

Rosanne

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Squarely Tiled with Countryside Inn

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I hope you enjoyed your long holiday weekend. Ours was pretty quiet as holidays go but relaxing all the same. I spent a lot of time in the craft room trying to get some cards made. And here’s one of them… I take no credit for this layout as I saw a similar card on Pinterest but there was no watermark to allow me to credit the creator.

I went through my current DSP looking for a pattern that most resembled a tile pattern and came up with this from the Countryside Inn DSP. It reminded me of a Delft Blue tile, which was the look I was going for. I think it’s pretty paired with the Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder.

Measurements

  • Basic White Thick Cardbase: 11 x 4 1/4, scored at 5 1/2
  • Night of Navy Card stock: 5 3/8 x 4 1/8
  • Basic White Card stock: 5 1/4 x 4 (cut 2)
  • Countryside Inn DSP

Details

  • Glue Night of Navy panel to the card base.
  • Emboss one of the Basic White panels using the Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder.
  • Cut the embossed panel on a diagonal (refer to the photo for position) and glue to the bottom of the plain white layer. This was easier for me to do rather than try to emboss on the first white panel. You can certainly eliminate the second white panel if you can successfully emboss the first. I was not successful with that!! An added bonus is that you now have another diagonal embossed panel.
  • Cut DSP into 1″ inch squares. The number of squares you’ll need will depend on how you positioned the embossed diagonal panel.
  • “Tile” the top section of the card with DSP squares spacing them evenly and popping them up with dimensionals.
  • Trim the tiles that go beyond the edge of the white panel.
  • Glue the tiled panel to the Night of Navy panel.
  • Using the Wonderful Thoughts Bundle, stamp and cut the sentiment and adhere with dimensionals. I cut an additional one in Night of Navy card stock to “shadow” the stamped sentiment.

I use mostly retired sentiments for the inside of my cards as I have a fairly large! amount of retired sets, so why not used them!

Well that’s all from me for now. Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you are having a good day.

Take care,

Rosanne

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On the Diagonal with Floral Impressions DSP

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Today, I have a pretty set of cards that came together fairly quickly. All it took was cutting strips of DSP and cardstock in various width and adhering them to a white card base. All the measurements are listed below. Even the flower embellishments are cut from the DSP.

The Floral Impressions Designer Series paper is one of the prettiest papers available, in my opinion! You can find it in the Online Exclusives HERE.

Here’s a peek inside…

Measurements…

  • Thick Basic White Card Base: A2 cards 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
  • Misty Moonlight layer: 4 1/8 x 5 3/8
  • Basic White cardstock: 4 x 5 1/4
  • Floral Impressions DSP (floral pattern): 3/4 wide – the length will depend on how you position the strip
  • Floral Impressions DSP (Fresh Freesia pattern): 1/2 wide
  • Misty Moonlight cardstock: 1/8 wide

Details…

Glue the Misty Moonlight layer to the card base.

After cutting the strips, determine where you want to position the longest strip leaving room on each side for more strips and glue it to the 4 x 5 1/4 Basic White layer.

Continue gluing strips until you have the desired pattern. Be sure to leave enough room to stamp the sentiment. Trim the edges.

Stamp the sentiment. Then glue to the Misty Moonlight card base.

Cut flower image from the DSP and adhere. Add a gem to the center of the flower.

Glue the card front to the card base.

I think the photos can give you an idea of the assembly.

I’m looking forward to trying this layout with other Designer Series Paper patterns. I think it would be perfect for a masculine card with the right patterns…gotta look into that!

I’m playing along with the As You See It Challenge HERE.

Thanks for checking in today. Hope your Wednesday is wonderful!

Take care,

Rosanne

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So Much To Celebrate Kit

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Good Monday Morning! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. We dried out a bit here in SE Pennsylvania but after today it’s going to be soggy again!

Do you purchase card kits? I was never really drawn to them much in the past, but oh my goodness, the kits Stampin’ Up! has been offering lately are positively wonderful. I’ve purchased a few lately and I have to tell you, they are really a lot of fun to put together just as is…but it’s even more fun when you add your own creative spin to them. By using the kit ingredients and adding some other products, you can have nine different cards for any occasion you wish instead of just having three of the same card. Let me show you what I mean…

Here are the three designs from the kit…

Here’s the first Stampin’ Up! design along with my two “original” designs…

…And the next Stampin’ Up! design along with mine…

…And one more Stampin’ Up design with two of mine…

I only used the kit products for the first three cards and used current and retired products to embellish the two I created. It was a lot of fun to come up with different designs for each card and dig around for products. Even after making all nine cards, I still have some of the kit parts left to embellish the inside of each card. The kit comes with embellished envelopes, too.

If you haven’t tried a kit yet, I would really encourage you to try one. The quality of the So Much To Celebrate kit is very good and the cost is only $14.00. That’s quite a value! See all the Kit Offerings HERE.

What is your opinion on kits? Do you like them? Have you tried them? Do you use them regularly?

Speaking of kits, I’ve been a sporadic Paper Pumpkin subscriber in the past but have also noticed that Stampin’ Up! has really improved their quality and the stamp sets are actually great to use on other projects as well. What I like about being a Paper Pumpkin subscriber is that I can suspend it if I’m not interested in that month’s offering and that we can now see a little preview before deciding on purchasing.

Thanks for stopping in today and I hope you are looking forward to a good week ahead.

Rosanne

There’s a great Starter Kit promotion going on now between May 6–31st. By joining Stampin’ Up! as a demonstrator, you can choose a Starter Kit with $165 USD worth of products for only $99 USD. That’s an extra $66 USD in products. You’ll start getting a 20% discount on your future orders. Click HERE for more information.