Floating Gate Fold Card

This floating gate fold card features the Hey Chick and Birthday Chick bundles that work so well together. The dies that are bundled with these two stamp sets cut a nice variety of accessories to enhance cards and 3D items you make with the stamp sets. I used many of them in making this card.

I demonstrated how to make a floating gate fold card during my Friday Facebook Live presentation using parts of both the Hey Chick and Birthday Chick bundles. Gather the supplies I used listed below with cutting and scoring measurements and then watch the embedded video from the Facebook Live.

Supplies to make this Floating Gate Fold Card

Stamp sets – Hey Chick and Birthday Chick – *These can be bought bundled with corresponding dies for a 10% discount
Inks – Memento, Stampin’ Blends – Cinnamon Cider Combo, Real Red Dark, Pumpkin Pie Dark, Crumb Cake Light
Cardstock – Seaside Spray 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ scored at 2 1/8″ on each end (card base), 4″ x 1/2″ scored at 1″, 2″, 3″; Soft Suede 2 pieces 1 7/8″ x 1 7/8″, 4″ x 1 7/8″, 4″ x 1/2″ scored at 1″, 2″, 3″; scraps of Basic White, Real Red, Garden Green, So Saffron, Bumblebee, Crumb Cake, Cinnamon Cider
Accessories – Birthday Chick Dies*, Hey Chick Dies*, Adhesive Sheets, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin’ Seal
Click here to order any of these supplies you need to make this project.

Watch the Video

I hope this blog post and video help you learn to make floating gate fold cards. If you do try this fancy fold, I’d love to have you send me a photo of your creation. I’ll be happy to feature it here on my blog.

Remember this is the last month of Sale-A-Bration. There are so many wonderful and cute items you can get for FREE when you place an order with me with each $50 you order in product. Visit my online store to see the Sale-A-Bration brochure and place an order. I appreciate your business.

January Paper Pumpkin Alternatives

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Image shows the suggested January Paper Pumpkin Cards

I had such fun creating January Paper Pumpkin Alternatives! Yes, the cards designed for the kit as shown above are adorable but did you know that the kit comes with a complete stamp set with images to use with your own designs? The heart filled with little hearts is preprinted on the card base that comes with the kit but the stamp set includes that image as a stamp. Check out this card I created with that heart image.

I stamped cascading hearts and flowers down from the heart with a second stamp from the set. The greeting ‘Love you’ is two separate stamps from the set which I combined together on one block. It fitted nicely into the Stitched So Sweetly die. The kit came with slightly more black ribbon than needed for the predesigned cards but not enough for more than one card so I used baker’s twine from the Playful Pets Trim Combo Pack to make a bow. The Paper Pumpkin kit includes the color Poppy Parade which is also one of the colors in the SAB free paper bundled with the free Berry Blessings stamp set. The Poppy Parade checked dsp made a perfect layer on this card front.

Image shows an alternative card created with the stamps included in the January Paper Pumpkin kit.

I created a second January Paper Pumpkin Alternative using the adorable snail stamp which makes me smile. If the real ones that love to dine on my flowers looked so cute, I might be more tolerant of having them in my flower beds. 🙂 Again, I used the Poppy Parade checkered dsp from the free Berry Blessings bundle as a layer on this card. I will use the samp with the word ‘Love’ often because of the beautiful font. I had just enough of the included black ribbon to tie it around the card front of this card. If Stampin’ Up! sold it individually, I would buy a roll as the size is just perfect for adding a black accent.

Coming Next Month!

Next month’s beautiful Paper Pumpkin kit’s title is Bouquet of Hope. The theme is one of encouragement and sympathy and we need to send this type of cards more often than we want.

Included in the kit:

Kit contains enough supplies to create 9 cards—3 each of 3 designs—and coordinating envelopes. Kit includes card bases, decorative die-cut pieces, embellishments, and more.
Card size: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (10.8 x 14 cm)
Envelope size: 4-1/2″ x 5-3/4″ (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
Coordinating colors: Basic Black, Bumblebee, Just Jade, Merry Merlot, Mossy Meadow, Rococo Rose
Coordinates with the Flower & Field Designer Series Paper, an exclusive Sale-A-Bration item.

To receive the February Paper Pumpkin kit, you must be a subscriber by February 10. You can learn more about the Paper Pumpkin subscription program and sign up here.

Hot Dog Floating Gatefold Card

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photo is of a handmade birthday card with various dogs on the front

photo shows handmade birthday card using Hot Dog stamp set with the card opened

I’m excited to share with you this Hot Dog Floating Gatefold Card today! Our granddaughter was just given two long-haired mini dachshunds for her birthday and I knew this would be the perfect card for her. We also share our home with a couple of very spoiled mini dachshunds so when the Hot Dog stamp set became available in the Stampin’ Up! January to June mini catalog, I jumped on buying it.

I used the following materials to make this Hot Dog Floating Gatefold Card

Stamp set – Hot Dog
Inks – Memento, Real Red, Lt Cinnamon Cider Blend, Lt Basic Black Blend
Basic White Cardstock – 8 1/5″ x 5 1/2″ scored at 2 1/8 ” on both ends for card base, scraps of Basic White, and two strips 3″ x 1/4″ scored at 1/4″, 1 7/8″ and 2 3/8″
Real Red Cardstock – scrap
Playful Pets Designer Series Paper – 5″ x 3 3/4″, 2 pieces 5 1/4″ x 17/8″
Accessories – Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Retired Large Letters Framelits Dies, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin’ Seal

To Make Card

fold card base on score lines. Then adhere dsp to card base.
cut H and B from Real Red cardstock and adhere to front of card
stamp greeting with Real Red ink on white scrap. Cut out with a Stitched So Sweetly rectangle die. Adhere to inside center of card.
stamp the dogs on Basic White cardstock scraps and color with Stampin’ Blends. Fussy-cut them out.
Bend score lines on narrow strips of cardstock into a C shape. Adhere the 5/8″ end inside near bottom of right card front near the fold. Glue the dog to the strip being sure it doesn’t show below the closed card. Apply glue just to 1/4″ section and fold the strip back under the dog. Close card and press on the 1/4″ tab. Open card to be sure only the 1/4″ tab is glued down.
Repeat this process in the upper left side of the card gluing the 5/8″ section to the inside of the left card front.

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Joy of Sharing Kit = Great Value

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photo shows cards made with the Joy of Sharing Card Kit

Check this out. Joy of Sharing Kit = great value! This card kit includes a set of 7 photopolymer stamps, a clear stamp block, Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin’ Spot, 15 printed card bases, 15 envelopes, printed die-cut images and label pieces, die-cut accent pieces, Laser-cut foil frames, adhesive-backed glitter dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals and adhesive dots. You also get complete instructions to create the cards and a couple of alternative card ideas.

I put together all 15 cards. Some were photo cards and the rest were beautiful Christmas cards. But I had a lot of pieces left over. So I used the Wonders of the Season Memories & More Cards and Envelopes package to make 20 more cards using some of the extra pieces from the Joy of Sharing Card Kit. Now I had 35 cards from the pieces of the Joy of Sharing card kit.

Photo of the Wonder of the Season Memories & More Cards and Envelopes

Check out some of the cards I made combining the two kits.

Cards made with the Joy of Sharing card kit and Wonder of the Season Memories & More Cards & Envelopes

14 More Cards!

I still had lots of die-cuts and labels left so I cut card bases from Thick Whisper White cardstock and carried on. I trimmed the centers of the gold foil laser-cut frames down to fit the card bases I had just made and trimmed off some of the pointy parts a little bit. These were adhered with Stampin” Seal to the centers of the card fronts. Then I covered the irregular parts with die-cut poinsettias and pine cone clusters from the Joy of Sharing kit. I got 14 more cards from that kit for a total of 49 cards.

Photo shows an additional 14 cards created with Joy of Sharing Card Kit elements.

And look how much more is left over for future use!

Left over elements of the Joy of Sharing Card Kit after making 49 cards!

I think you will agree that the Joy of Sharing kit = Great Value! The kit and the Wonder of the Season Memories & More Cards & Envelopes are retiring the 4th of January and are on Stampin’ Up!’s Year-End Close Out Sale. Yep…they are on sale and there is still inventory left. Hustle on over and purchase these two items now! You will have a headstart on next years Christmas cards. When you order, use the December host code and receive a small thank you gift from me.

Arrow Fold Christmas Card

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I got the idea of this fun arrow fold Christmas card from a tutorial I saw online. I loved the idea of turning the card with the point up. A Christmas tree fits in the arrow perfectly.

Supplies Used for this Arrow Fold Christmas card

Snow Front stamp set – little birds stamps
Itty Bitty Christmas – Season’s Greetings die
Whisper White cardstock 11″ x 4 1/4″ and scrap for pine tree die
Classic Christmas 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper green pine tree pattern 2 pieces 5 1/4″ x 4″
Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad
In the Woods Dies
All the Trimmings Combo Pack – red ribbon
Multipurpose Liquid Glue

To order the supplies used to make this project click on this link https://s.tamp.in/07LoGX. The templates for scoring both a 11″ x 4 1/4″ and an 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ card base are below.

Template showing the scoring measurements for both a top fold and side fold A2 card — Template for Arrow Fold cards giving scoring measurements

I did a Facebook Live presentation a couple of weeks ago showing how to make this card. Then I uploaded it to my YouTube channel. You can watch the video below to help you with the folding.

If you decide to try this type fold, please send me a photo of your card. I’d love to share it here on my blog.

Close-out Sale Begins Tuesday!

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Stampin’ Up!’s Giant Close-Out Sale begins Tuesday, December 8. This is a sale you won’t want to miss. All the trimmings, most of the designer series papers, all the dies, and a couple of embossing folders in the Holiday mini catalog are on sale. This is also your last chance to get the retiring bundles and suites under their order numbers. They are not on sale. Check out the lists below and make your shopping list.

2020 Holiday Catalog Retirement List

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2020 Holiday Catalog Carryover List

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:4732b780-36bb-4fbf-b892-6aa101b3bca9

Now that your list is made, go shopping here on Tuesday, December 8. Remember the Close-out Sale begins Tuesday!

Merry & Bright Online Extravaganza Tomorrow

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Banner for Mewrry & Bright Online Extravaganza

Check out Stampin’ Up!’s Merry & Bright Online Extravaganza Tomorrow! It is a 24 hour sale where almost everything in the 2020 – 2021 Annual Catalog is on sale for 10% off. Yes…almost everything including most of the suites and bundles! That makes the bundles 20% off the price of buying the stamp set and punch or die separately. Now is the time to buy those items you have been eyeing but haven’t ordered yet. And…it is a great time to buy gifts for your crafty friends. Now there are some things that are not on sale. The list is below.

List of items not included in the Merry & Bright Online Extravaganza

Since this is for only 24 hours, don’t put off making your list and placing an order. Black Friday sales are about to begin. Consider this your stamping Black Friday sale and treat yourself to some guilty pleasure. You deserve it!I have my list of things I want to order ready and waiting for the Merry & Bright Online Extravaganza Tomorrow. You can either place your order online or email it to me and I’ll be happy to place it for you. If you do send me the order, you can pay me through Paypal or call me with your credit card number.

Darling Shaker Card for Zeke

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Here is a darling shaker card for Zeke. Zeke is our youngest great-grandchild and he turns 4 on Monday. It is so very gratifying when you can create such a cute shaker card in less than 30 minutes. I showed you on this post Wednesday how to make this type of easy shaker card and included a video in the post. Check it out.

Today’s card features the Pampered Pets bundle and the Playful Pets designer series paper. I think they are perfect for a four-year-boy who has three dogs in his family. I used the following supplies to make this card.

Stamps – Pampered Pets, Approaching Perfection (Free SAB stamp set available Jan 2021)
Real Red Cardstock 11″ x 4 1/4″ scored and folded at 5 1/2″
Whisper White Cardstock 5 1/4″ x 4″ for inside, scraps
Playful Pets Designer Series Paper 5 1/4″ x 4″
Inks – Memento, Real Red, Stampin’ Blend Combos – Basic Black, Real Red, Cinnamon Cider
Accessories – Pets Dies, Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Clear medium envelope, Tear & Tape, Stampin’ Snail, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Scotch Tape

To order the supplies to make this darling shaker card for Zeke, just click on this link. The products will be added to your shopping cart. You can delete any of them that you already have. Of course, the card you make most likely won’t be for a Zeke. Leave a comment below with the name of the person you create this card for.

Easy and Quick Shaker Card

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One of the demonstrators presenting at OnStage@home this year shared a easy and quick shaker card. It is so easy that I want to share the technique with you.

To make this easy and quick shaker card you need

Poinsettia Petals stamp set – Merry Christmas greeting
Gift Wrapped stamp set – plaid bow
Christmas Gleaming stamp set – holly cluster
Real Red cardstock 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″ and folded for card base, scrap
Whisper White cardstock scrap
Poinsettia Place designer series paper – holly design 5 1/4″ x 4″
Inks – Memento, Cherry Cobbler, Stampin’ Blends – Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Real Red, and Cherry Cobbler
Accessories – Bow Builder Punch, Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Tear & Tape, Stampin’ Seal, Clear medium envelope, Scotch Tape, Stampin’ Trimmer, Paper Snips

Click on this link to add these products to your shopping cart.Check out my Facebook Live presentation of how to make this card.

This technique is so versatile that you can create the card to fit any occasion, wedding, birthday, Thinking of You, etc. All you have to do is change out the designer series paper design and add coordinating images/embellishments to the front of the card. Here is another sample I have made with this technique. In this sample I used Feels Like Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper (153512), Snowflake Sequins (150443), Peaceful Boughs stamp set (150541) and Beautiful Boughs Dies (150661). You can add these supplies to your shopping cart here.

Photo shows an easy and quick shaker card using Feels Like Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper

Candle Triple Side-step Card

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Handmade Christmas Card using the Curvy Cgleaming Specialty Designer Series Paperhristmas stamp set and Brightly

I’m very excited to share with you this Candle Triple Side-step card! Last Saturday, I shared another Triple Side-fold Christmas card here and told you the design suggested to me a row of candles. Ta daa! Here is the creation.

I used the same Night of Navy cardstock for the base but changed the dsp to another Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series paper design. This time I used copper foil sheets as a layer under the dsp. The smaller of the Gleaming Ornaments Punch Pack was used to punch out the copper foil and then I hand-cut the shape of the flames. I happened to have a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock that had been embossed with the Subtle embossing folder. That was perfect for the candles.

I cut branches from Mossy Meadow cardstock using the Beautiful Boughs dies. I stamped the little pine cones from the In the Woods stamp set on Soft Suede cardstock using Early Espresso ink. Then I used the little pinecone die from the In The Woods Dies to cut them out. The greeting and swoosh of stars were stamped on Very Vanilla with Night of Navy ink using stamps from the Curvy Christmas stamp set. The Curvy Christmas stamp set is part of the Quite Curvy Variety Bundle special starting November 3.

Supplies for Candle Triple Side-step Card

Night of Navy Cardstock – 10″ x 7″
Very Vanilla Cardstock – 4″ x 1 1/2″, 6 3/4″ x 2 3/4″ for inside, 1″ x 3″, 2 pieces 2″ x 3/4″
Mossy Meadow Cardstock – scrap
Soft Suede Cardstock – scrap
Copper Foil Sheets – 4 3/4″ x 2 3/8″, 4 1/4 x 1 3/4″, 2 pieces 2 7/8″ x 2 1/8″, scrap
Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP – 2 pieces 2 5/8 ” x 1 7/8″, 2 1/8″ x 4 1/2″
Night of Navy and Early Espresso Ink
Curvy Christmas stamp set – available Nov 3
Winter Woods stamp set – pine cone
Beautiful Boughs and In the Woods dies
Paper Trimmer
Stampin’ Cut Emboss Machine
Multipurpose Liquid Glue

You can order the supplies for this card here.

Triple Side-step Christmas Card

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Handmade Christmas Triple Side-step card

Check out this beautiful triple side-step Christmas card! I love the way there are three levels to the card. I created it with the gorgeous Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper (150429) , Gold Foil Sheets (132622) and the Poinsettia Petals Bundle (155148).

Supplies Used for Triple Side-step Christmas Card

Night of Navy Cardstock – 10″ x 7″
Very Vanilla Cardstock – 1 piece 2 3/4″ x 2 1/4″, 2 pieces 2 3/4″ x 2″, 1 piece 6 3/4″ x1 3/4″, 1 piece 6 3/4″ x 2 3/4″ for inside
Mossy Meadow – scrap for leaves
Gold Foil Sheets – 2 7/8″ x 2 3/8″, 2 pieces 2 7/8″ x 2 1/8″, 1 piece 6 7/8″ x 1 7/8″, 1 piece 6″ x 5″ for poinsettia petals
Brightly Gleaming DSP – 1 piece 2 5/8″ x 2 1/8″, 2 pieces 2 5/8″ x 1 7/8″
Poinsettia Petals Bundle
Stampin’ Trimmer
Stampin’ Cut Emboss Machine
Multipurpose Liquid Glue

To order these supplies to make this card, click here.
I want to thank Karen Eagan of Crafty Karen Designs for her great tutorial I used to make this card. You can find my tutorial here and my Facebook Live video of this card here.

The design of this card makes me think of Christmas candles. I’m mentally designing another card with this fold. Come back in the next couple of days to see what evolves. While Karen’s card was the inspiration for this card, my next card will be an inspiration from God.

Stunning Shimmery Halloween Card

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This stunning shimmery Halloween card is easy to make using the split-circle technique. I designed this card for an Facebook Groups class I’m holding Sunday afternoon. Due to copyright laws, we aren’t allowed to include stamped images in card kits. Therefore I used a collection of dies to make this card.

The split-circle technique gives that swoop of color in the center of the card. You cut out four circles in increasing size using alternating colors/designs of cardstock/designer series papers. In this case I used the Rainbow Glimmer paper on the purple to yellow side of the sheet. I used the layering circle dies starting with the smallest circle. I labeled the dies in increasing size starting with the smallest being one and the largest being 8. I used #1 – #4 dies for the circles. Then cut the circles in half and adhere together as shown. For your convenience I have listed the place to position each circle on your paper trimmer to have them cut in half. Notice that each die goes up exactly 1/8″ plus the 1/16″. I could have given the measurements all in sixteenths but I found it easier to find the eights on the ruler and then add the 1/16″.

#1 4/8″ + 1/16″
#2 5/8″ + 1/16+
#3 6/8″ + 1/16″
#4 7/8″ + 1/16″

I used the next to the largest stitched rectangle to cut the Basic Black background. The frame was cut from the Rainbow Glimmer paper by nesting the third largest die inside the next larger die. I placed #2 and #4 circle dies inside the rectangles to conserve paper.

Supplies Used for the Stunning Shimmery Halloween Card

Mango Melody Cardstock – 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″ and folded for card base
Basic Black Cardstock – 4 3/4″ x 3 1/2″
Rainbow Glimmer Paper – purple to yellow edge of sheet 5 1/2″ x 5″
Black Glitter Paper – 4″ x 2″
Layering Circles Dies
Stitched Rectangles Dies
Word Wishes Dies
Halloween Magic Dies

Are you ready to make your own stunning Halloween card? Then click on the photo of the card to go to the shopping cart filled with the supplies you need. I have a video demonstrating how to make this on my YouTube channel. While you are there, subscribe so you receive notification when I upload my next video.

Stunning Double Fan-Fold Card

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This image is of a stunning Double Fan Fold Star Card

I love this stunning double fan-fold star card. If you have been following my posts you may have learned that I love fancy folds. Here and her e are a couple other fancy fold cards I have shared. I thank Lavonne Schwendeman for sharing a template with the measurements and scoring directions on one of our facebook groups. This card can stand by itself and folds up to fit into a standard A2 envelope for mailing. I did a Facebook live demonstration of how to make this card yesterday and am sharing that video today with you. First, though, here are the supplies, cutting dimensions and scoring directions I used.

Supplies for the Double Fan Fold Star Card

Stamp set – Itty Bitty Christmas
Ink – Memento
Very Vanilla Cardstock 7 ½” x 5 ½” scored at 1¼”, 2½”, 5”, 6¼”. Then diagonally from top left corner to bottom of 2½” score and top of 2½” score to bottom left corner. Repeat with other end, scrap
Brightly Gleaming Specialty dsp – Night of Navy with copper stars 5” x 2”, 2 pieces 4¾” x 2”
Copper Foil Sheets – 5¼” x 2¼”, 2 pieces 5” x 2¼”, scrap
Accessories – Stitched So Sweetly dies, Starlight Thinlits Dies (retired), Blue Adhesive-backed Gems, Stampin’ Seal, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin’ Dimensionals

To get the supplies I used to make this stunning double fan-fold star card, click here.

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Floating Gate Fold Card

Supplies to make this Floating Gate Fold Card

Watch the Video

January Paper Pumpkin Alternatives

Coming Next Month!

Included in the kit:

Hot Dog Floating Gatefold Card

I used the following materials to make this Hot Dog Floating Gatefold Card

To Make Card

Arrow Fold Christmas Card

Supplies Used for this Arrow Fold Christmas card

Close-out Sale Begins Tuesday!

2020 Holiday Catalog Retirement List

2020 Holiday Catalog Carryover List

Merry & Bright Online Extravaganza Tomorrow

Darling Shaker Card for Zeke

Easy and Quick Shaker Card

Candle Triple Side-step Card

Supplies for Candle Triple Side-step Card

Triple Side-step Christmas Card

Supplies Used for Triple Side-step Christmas Card

Stunning Shimmery Halloween Card

Supplies Used for the Stunning Shimmery Halloween Card

Stunning Double Fan-Fold Card

Supplies for the Double Fan Fold Star Card