Fun Fold Cards

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  My upline Pennie has a FB page where lots of her downline share ideas!  My friend Janice shared a fun folded card there and she graciously gave me the measurements, so I made a couple of my own.  (I will share the measurements at the end of the post.)  My first one features Love Blossoms DSP, Crumb Cake and Cherry Cobbler along with Something to Say, Remember This, and Friendly Wishes:

So the front of the card looks like a regular card (I added some twine to hold the folds together), but when it opens...tada!

The smaller right panel folds under the larger left panel, and you can decorate all three of them any way you like!  Here's the inside:

The second one features Birthday Bouquet DSP and Suite Sayings:

I used Watermelon Wonder and Blushing Bride for my colors and since the DSP has a fairly large pattern, I chose not to decorate the smaller panel and use just a simple sentiment for the front!

Here are the measurements:  

• DSP:  4 x 3 1/4" and 4 x 1 1/2"
• Mats for DSP and back of card: 4 1/2 x 3 3/4", 4 1/8 x 3 3/8" and 4 1/8 x 1 5/8"
• Card base is 10 1/2 x 4 1/4, scored at 1 3/4", 3 1/2", 7" and 8 3/4"
• If you want to add an optional layer to the inside:  4 x 3 1/4"

Have fun!  Any questions, give me a shout!

A little snow fun:

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Friday, peeps!  Yay, the holiday weekend is here!  Tomorrow should be a nice day for the annual Memorial Day parade in which John always participates!  Can’t wait!  Meanwhile, I have a wedding card for you today, using the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

as well as the colors from Create with Connie & Mary’s challenge this week:

And here we go:

I stamped the big flower from Flower Patch and cut the outer petals off, then used the matching die to cut out a flower from Soft Sky cardstock and embossed it with the Decorative Dots EF.  I heat embossed a sentiment from Remember This on a scrap of vellum in Rich Razzleberry (because I got my colors mixed up) and made it into a little banner.  The Moonlight DSP was perfect for my little panel which was diecut with the Apothecary Accents dies; I used some Neutral glimmer brads and silver glimmer paper as well:

And MDS downloads will be ending soon, I made a couple of purchases yesterday and used this for the inside…again, I used Rich Razzleberry because I have a sieve brain and can’t remember what color I am supposed to use….but it’s still pretty:

And I totally forgot that I wanted to submit this to CASology's Wedding challenge # 147!
Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy with Daddy and Mom Mom:

She was SO excited that they came, and she brought all her peer tutors over to introduce them to her daddy!  It was so sweet!

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Happy Sunday, everyone!  Hope you all are having a great weekend so far!  I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week and I’ve got a sketch for you:

I just couldn’t decide what to put in that horizontal panel; I really wanted to stamp something, but in the end, pulled out some of my neglected Maritime DSP and the cute Sea Street stamp set:

I stamped Mr Octopus in Coastal Cabana, and his friends in Night of Navy and Real Red, then added a sentiment from the Project Life photopolymer set Remember This:

Life IS good, right?!  I am also entering this in the Male Room's Under Water theme!  A new challenge to me, thanks to Deborah!   I hope you’ll play along with us this week, and share your creation with us at the Paper Players blog!  Meanwhile, check out what the other designers created:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance – on break this week
• Sandy
• Shannon

We had a little surprise snow on Friday, what we call a nuisance snow, because it really didn’t stay too much on the roads:

Saturday morning, it was sunny and frosty:

Can spring be really here?  I think Cassidy is going to “whistle” it in!!!

Enjoy your day!

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Hey, peeps, it’s Tuesday, and that means another cool color challenge from Arielle for the ColourQ!  Here you go:

Definitely a boyish color combo, although it doesn’t necessarily have to be!  I inked up some images from Geometrical and A Fitting Occasion, both of which have been neglected, and paired them with a sentiment from a new Project Life set called Remember This:

I added some scallops and zigzags, and popped it all on a panel that I embossed with the Alphabet EF:

I added a little sentiment (and hat!) to the inside as well:

Sentiment is from Fabulous Four!  I hope you can come play with us this week!

A few more fair pictures:

Enjoy your day!