Heart of Christmas - Week 10 - 2023 - Pop Up Z-Fold Card

 

Welcome to another fun filled week of Christmas inspiration project for you to get ready for the most Wonderful time of the year! I know the Art with Heart team will have fantastic projects for you again this week like they always do.

This week I have another fun fold for you and this week I thought I would CASE the fold from a fellow demonstrator in the US, her name is Lisa Curcio. You know me I never miss an opportunity to try a different fun fold.

So Lisa made a "Z-Fold " card but made it  a pop up card as well. I thought "yes" this is my kind of card! I have made quite a few pop up cards if you have been following me for a while you will know my cards are quite the 3D! 

So I looked at it and thought yep those measurements won't quite work for our Aussie card sizes so I will make it slightly different. I MADE IT TOO BIG TO FIT IN THE ENVELOPE! Ok I caught myself with only the card base cut out and the base to all the pop ups so I could cut them all down before adding the layers and adhering them to each other. PHEW! Problem adverted! Only an inch and half too tall. LOL! No I will not show you photographs I didn't take any! I know if it ain't broke don't fix it and try it their way first before doing it your way! I suppose I could have left it the way I originally made the base and then made my own envelope! There are always ways around things. Creative opportunities are everywhere!

So I have made the base of the card with Pretty Peacock card and layered it with Cherry Cobbler before using the A Walk in the Forest DSP for the base and the majority of the pop ups but on the first part of the "z-fold" I have used the piece of Joy of Christmas DSP.

Each of the pop up sections got progressively smaller and adhered to each other and then to the back section of the card. In Lisa's example she only decorated the very front "z-fold" with decorations and a sentiment and left the other pop ups with the gorgeous DSP showing. I have gone over the top so to speak with all the lovely Christmas Trees from the A Walk in the Forest DSP. Plus you can never have enough Christmas Trees if you ask me.

I have stamped the trunk of the tree in Pecan Pie and die cut them out with the Merriest Tree Dies and the Tree Skirts or baskets are also in Pecan Pie and have been die cut out with the Dies from the Merriest Tree Dies. I have cut out the Garlands and Stars in Gold foil and this time I remembered to adhere the self adhesive sheets to them before die cutting! Saves So much time and gluey fingers!

Don't forget to make space on the back of the card for writing to your special someone, family or friend!

And when you do the measurements correctly and you make sure everything folds properly when adding the pop ups, your card will fold flat and and fit into an envelope!

If you have any questions about my project today please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next Art with Heart Team Member who is creating for this week's Heart Of Christmas and this week you will be heading to Rachel Woollard, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If you have an issue with the next blog buttons not going where they should here is the list of the Art With Heart Team participating today, you can continue your journey from there:

Rachel Woollard
Andrea Sargent
Kate Morgan
Tina Gillespie
Judy May

Christine Blain

Caroline Manwaring

Theresa Gerrard

Kathryn Mangelsdorf

Rosa Leyden

Sharon Davern <= You are here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,

Heart of Christmas - Week 9 - 2023

 

Welcome to another fun week of the Heart of Christmas. It is always a great day when it is the Heart of Christmas day and we get to share all the wonderful Christmas inspiration with you.

This week I have a Gate Fold Fun Fold Card for you will a belly band. I have used the Merriest Trees Bundle for my card this week and the A Walk in the Forest DSP. It simply makes card making so much easier this gorgeous DSP and stamp and die bundle.

For my card base I have used Garden Green and a layer of Cherry Cobbler with a layer of the gorgeous A Walk in the Forest DSP. 

As this is a gate fold card I have a belly band around the card of Cherry Cobbler and the DSP I have stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed in white embossing powder and then cut out with the Merriest Trees Dies. This was on Pretty Peacock card.

After taking off the belly band and opening the gate fold card you are presented with 2 Christmas trees. The Christmas trees I have die cut out of the A Walk in the forest DSP. I have also cut out the garland and stars in Gold Foil. I stamped the stem of the tree in Pecan Pie and I have cut out the tree skirt in Pecan Pie as well.

I have attached the trees to an extra folded back section that I have cut around the shape of the tree so you don't have a big section of card at the top.

If you have any questions about my project today please don't hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our Heart of Christmas journey this week. This week you will be heading to the amazing Rachel Woollard, I can't wait to see what she has for us this week. Hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at any time one of the next blog buttons don't work you can come back here and continue your hop from the list of the Art with Heart team participating today.
Andrea Sargent
Kate Morgan
Michele Taylor
Tina Gillespie
Christine Blain
Caroline Manwaring
Rosa Leyden
Judy May
Sharon Davern <= You are here
Rachel Woollard

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,

Heart of Christmas - 2023 - Week 5

 

Welcome to week 5 of The Heart of Christmas for 2023. This week I have for you a fancy fold as I know you hold out for one each week. I thought I would continue to use up some of the gorgeous DSP that I had started with over the past couple of weeks that was still sitting on my desk. Believe it or not I just used the same pieces I had already started with and continued with those. This one is supper fun and easy to make.

I am not sure if you would call this an inverted Triple Bridge fold card or a Triple column card. Either way it folds down flat and fits perfectly into our C6 envelopes. I am a bit obsessed with the collapsing panels at the moment as you can see.

Well for this card I started with the colours to the A Walk in the Forest DSP and had the card base in Pretty Peacock. I cut it as half a card base as this card doesn't actually open it just stands. 10.5 cm x 14.9 cm. Then I had the 3 Bridge Folds or columns or what ever you would like to call them. I cut them Ok I am going to go between inches and cm's in this card but as the Stampin' Up trimmer does as well it makes life so much easier I say! So the bridges are 5 inches by 1 3/4 and I  scored at 1/2, 1, 4, 4 1/2 inches. The beautiful Joy of Christmas DSP leafy pattern I had some left over from my last project so I cut that into strips of 4.1 x 1 cm and the Beautiful Music DSP from the Joy of Christmas DSP is also cut at 4.1 cm x 7.3 cm. 

I Adhered all of that to the bridges before burnishing with the bone folder.To adhere the bridges down you add the Liquid glue to the one side of the bridge and do the top and bottom first so they are both touching the top and bottom of the base card. Especially the bottom so the card stands up the place the middle bridge. Then fold the bridge all the way to the left and flatten out the right part of the bridge to adhere the right side. This will ensure that your card will fold flat into the envelope without having a bend. 

The decorations for the front of the card are just perfect I think. I still had that piece of A walk in the Forest DSP that I cut our the tree from for my Trucking Along card so I got out the Dies from the Merriest Tree and cut out the tree and then in gold cut out the garland and the star. The tree skirt/basket I cut in Crumb Cake. I stamped the ornaments in Cherry Cobbler and die cut those before stamping and cutting out the presents. Now I can't put too many under the tree as in my house they are not wrapped until the last minute when the kids have finally gone to bed on Christmas Eve. How about your house?! The sentiment is stamped in Pretty Peacock and I have used the Gorgeously Made Dies to cut it out.

On the back I have cut another tree and basket/skirt  and added another layer of Pretty Peacock for stability. Now there is somewhere to write your greeting.

And just to prove to you it does actually fit in the envelope there you go.

If you have any questions about this card please let me know and I will be happy to help. I know going back and forth from cm to inches is a bit crazy but I am definitely crazy!

Now is the time to head to the next amazing and talented team member participating this week in the Heart of Christmas for some more Christmas inspiration and this week you will be heading to Michele Taylor, I can't wait to see what she has for us. Just hit the next blog button and it will take you right there.

If the next blog buttons don't work for any reason you can continue your journey from the list of amazing Art With Heart team members participating in Week 5 of the Heart of Christmas below:

Michele Taylor
Tina Gillespie
Kate Morgan
Rachel Woollard
Christine Blain
Judy May
Andrea Sargent
Theresa Gerrard
Catherine Proctor
Rosa Leyden
Sharon Davern <= You are here

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,