Friday, May 30, 2025

FEATHERED FRIEND SUSPENDED FUN FOLD

Today's card is a Suspended Book Fun Fold.  I first saw this card on Jan B's website, a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator from the UK.  Her card was a 5" X 7" card, but I wanted to make it in our "normal" A2 size.

It took a bit of trial and error, but I finally came up with proportions I liked.

The center section of the fun fold is the "book".  It is suspended on mechanisms that hold the book in space.

I demonstrated a version of this card in my Learning with Friends Video yesterday.  It is probably much easier to understand if you watch the video.

I used designer series paper from the Beautiful Gallery Collection.  The "book" uses one of the scenes from this beautiful DSP.

I added one of the cute little birds from Feathered Fun in the foreground of the scene.  I can imagine him thinking about where he should build his nest in the weatherworn building.

The white die cut stem and the sentiment are from the Beautiful Motifs Bundle.


I'm not sure what type of bird this is.  It could probably be colored to make it a variety of species, but I just wanted him to be cute and colorful so I used Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends.

The front of this card flips open to provide plenty of space on the inside for a Greeting or a personalized note.


Use this link to download a PDF Tutorial.  Use it to follow along with the video to make your own version of this card.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

PARROT FEATHERED FRIEND

Polly the Parrot wants to say hi to you today!  She's feeling a little sassy because she thinks she is pretty with all her colors.

She is very colorful as she was colored with a lot of different colored Stampin' Blends.  I think the person coloring her couldn't decide what color Polly should be!


Polly's perch is also sitting on an interesting card layout.  

Who remembers the days when we would get our card ideas from magazines?  As I've been updating and organizing my crafting area, I found some old card magazines.  I've been determined for the last few week to reduce the size of my crafting stash, so, I was just going to toss my stack of old magazines, but does anyone else have a difficult time throwing things away without at least looking at them first?  Well, I saw a card in one of those old magazines that had a card layout with triangles on it.  I worked on it for a bit and finally figured out that the card in the magazine was a very unique sized fun fold that was not working for me at all.

But it did provide inspiration!  My card is not a fun fold and is a standard size 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" card.  But I did incorporate triangles!


The card base is Basic Beige and the triangles are made with the Season of Elegance Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP).


Here is a close-up of Polly with all of her beautiful colors on display.  For the coloring details refer to the tutorial.  You can download a copy at this link.

The sentiment from Beautiful Motifs Stamp Set was stamped with Mossy Meadow ink and then matted to a scrap of Season of Elegance DSP.  The angles of the sentiment and mat were snipped to follow the lines of the triangles.


Another strip of the DSP was used to decorate the inside of the card.

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Monday, May 26, 2025

LOVE BIRDS

This week I am using a new stamp set from the Annual Catalog.  This Feathered Fun set first came to my attention at OnStage when a demonstrator introduced the set to us and showed us several beautiful cards she made.  I apologize, I do not remember her name, but her cards were gorgeous.


The Feathered Fun Stamp set includes birds in pairs, like these two on my card, but it also includes separate birds that are mirror images of each other so you can have them looking at each other.  I colored my parrots and tit mouse (or is it tit mice) with Stampin' Blends, but the stamps are also reversible.  So, if you are not someone who likes color, you can stamp the lined image and then flip the stamp over and stamp the bird a solid color.

My card layout is based on my FSF Sketch # 3.  I shared this sketch in a Learning With Friends video earlier this month.  If you missed it, you can watch the replay on YouTube and also see other variations of the sketch.


The pretty designer series paper (DSP) behind my Love Birds is from The Beautiful Gallery DSP Collection.  Both of the DSP designs I used would likely be considered the "B" side of the paper, but I love them.

This stamp set also includes a few branches.  I stamped mine with Pecan Pie and then fussy cut them.  The branch for the Parrots' perch was woven through slits cut on the inside edge of each of the "feet".  I used a craft knife to make the small slits.


To decorate the inside of the card I used a decorative strip made with the same DSP as the background for the Tit Mice on the front of the card.

Use this link to download a FREE tutorial for today's card.  A diagram for sketch #3 is included on the tutorial.

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