everyday you and me corner fold card

everyday you and me corner fold card

Today’s More Color Mondays features the retiring 2023-2025 In Color Wild Wheat, Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock.

Everyday You and Me Bundle is on the Last Chance List and Everyday Happiness DSP is beautiful and makes this corner fold card.

Measurements:
BASE: Pretty Peacock CS: 4 1/4″ x 11″
scored at 5 1/2″
DSP: (2) 4″ x 5 1/4″
Basic White CS: 4″ x 5 1/4″
scrap for sentiment piece and flowers/leaves

Mark the top of the 4 1/4″ side of the base at 1 3/4″ and score from the middle score to the mark.
Cut one of the DSP layers from the corner to 1 1/4″ mark on one side.
Adhere the DSP cut piece to the front of the card base.
Turn down the corner and adhere it down.

Cut 1/4″ off the fat end of the small DSP triangle and adhere to the turned down triangle.

Stamp the sentiment in Pretty Peacock ink on a Basic White scrap. Stamp a leaf in Wild Wheat above the sentiment. Stamp the five circle image in Lost Lagoon ink all over the background of the sentiment piece.
Fussy cut the sentiment piece.
Cut another triangle from corner to a 1 3/4″ mark of the second DSP layer.
Adhere to the top of the 4″ x 5 1/4″ Basic White piece.
Stamp two flowers in Pretty Peacock ink and stamp off one flower in a lighter tone.
Stamp one each of the leaves in Wild Wheat ink and die cut all the flowers and leaves.
Arrange the flowers and leaves with dies around the sentiment piece.
Adhere the sentiment over the card front.
Adhere the Sunny Day Dots embellishments to the card front.
I cut a matte for the sentiment piece and then re-adhered the sentiment piece to the card front.

Place a linen thread bow to the bottom right hand-side of the sentiment piece.

This is a fun and easy way to make a standard card with a little interest – a corner turned down. Try this technique and create some artwork of your very own one stamp at a time!

Happy Stampin’
Natalie

dragonfly garden corner fold card

dragonfly garden corner fold card

Fun Fold cards are like spices in cooking to the crafting world – they spice up your cards with very little effort. Usually you start with the same piece of cardstock that you would normally make a card with but add score lines or cuts in different places to add interest to an otherwise normally folded card!  Today I am going to show you how to make a corner fold card with the Dragonfly Garden Bundle (#156224)

( (Measurements:

Misty Moonlight Cardstock 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored parallel to the short side at 4 1/4″ (#153081)

Basic White Cardstock 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ (for the Stitched Rectangular (#148551) die cut) and a 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4″ square for card front layer   and extra scraps for punched dragonflies and sentiment (#159276)

Dandy Garden (#154297) DSP 4″ x 5 1/4″, a 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ square and a 1/2″ x 4″ piece of coordinating DSP or colored cardstock

Adhere the 4′ x 5 1/4″ DSP piece to the card base

Add a 3″ x 3″ post-it note to the top right hand corner of the card – I placed an ink mark at 5/8″ down from the top left hand corner and another tic mark at 5/8″ from the bottom right hand corner.  (Where the 3×3 is located is the top of the card) Start with the opening edge of the card at the top edge of your paper trimmer and your blade at the 3″ mark on the corner of the post-it note and pressing hard (as you are cutting through 2 pieces of paper) glide the cutting blade upwards until you get to the 5/8″ mark on your post-it note or the ruler guide (they should be around the same spot!) you may want to run the cutting blade back and forth several times to ensure that the cut has gone all the way through the 2 sheets of paper!

Rotate the paper 90 degrees so that the top of the card is now on the bottom with the opening edge at the 3 inch mark and place your cutting blade at 5 1/8″ mark on the ruler (should be equal to the 5/8″ mark on the post-it note) and slide the cutting blade upward to the 3 1/2″ mark on the ruler or until you feel the cutting blade cross the first cut mark! Again you will want to move the cutting blade back and forth a few times to ensure the paper is cut all the way through!

The picture above shows the cutting blade at the end of the cut meeting the first cut mark!

This is what the front of the card will look like after the 2 cuts are made.

Swing the cut piece inside out so to speak so that the Misty Moonlight cardstock from the back of the front card panel shows. Make sure the edges are parallel to the top and side edges of the card and using the bone folder (#102300) crease the diagonal bends of the card so it lies flat.

Adhere the 2 1/2″ square DSP to the Basic White 2 3/4″ square mat and add to the corner panel of the cardfront.  Before adhering the corner panel down slip a piece of Misty Moonlight In Color Ribbon (#153624) through and tie on the inside of the card. Adhere the 1/2″ x 4″ strip of complimentary DSP to the bottom of the card.

Adhere the Basic White Stitched Rectangle Die (#148551) to the inside of the card making sure it is even on all sides.  Add an inside sentiment if desired.

Add dragonfly punches in Basic White cardstock to the card inside and front and add the sentiment.