Welcome to the last blog hop for 2024! Whew…it’s just crazy that we are at the end of the year!! I want to say thank you to those who subscribe to my posts, I do appreciate your interest and hope you will continue to follow me into 2025 🙂
You may have started with me for this blog hop, or ended up here from Frances Wagner’s blog. She always shares a fun project. I always enjoy seeing what our talented NC demonstrators produce each month!
We had a lot of leeway for creating our project this month. Some suggestions were things for Valentine’s Day, or sharing a favorite technique we love. We could use any favorite supplies. And use our favorite color combos. We just needed to share something that we love.
But I’m going with the first suggestion, a Valentine’s card. I selected supplies from our Online Exclusive offerings and the 2024-2025 Annual Catalog. Plus, a sneak peek of a new product coming in the Jan-Apr 2025 catalog. The Gold open-weave trim is just gorgeous! You will be able to place an order for that starting 1/7/25.
I was inspired by a fun-fold card that Patty Bennett recently showcased. The base is 12″ x 5 1/2″, so you won’t be able to use 8 1/2″ x 11″ to make it. But we have a relatively new product that you might not be aware of. Our Two-Tone Card Stock (12 x 12) is part of our expanding Memory-keeping supplies. This paper is a nice weight for the card base. It’s not quite as heavy as our standard card stock, so there’s not as much bulk when you fold the card. And there are presently 14 different color options you can choose from! You could also use any other Designer Series Paper. But I would lean toward something with a fairly solid pattern since you will be adding other designs for the various panels. Just play around until you find a combination that works for you! Here’s a picture of the card standing up. You can see that I used 3 different patterns from the Marbled Elegance DSP.
This card is really simple to make! It has minimal stamping, the designer series paper is doing the heavy lifting here. And you can be creative with how you do your sentiment for the front. We have a huge variety of dies that would work well with the sentiments in this stamp set, or whatever stamps you decide to use for YOUR card.
I will note that I modified Patty’s card just a little bit. She used 2 panels cut at 5 1/2″ x 1 3/4″ and placed those panels on the front piece of the card (the striped panel) and also on the back of that panel. I choose to not add a DSP to the first panel inside my card.
If you’d like the instructions to make this card, please click HERE.
Please continue with the rest of the creators to see what they have to share this month. Jo Anne Hewins is next and I know you’ll enjoy her project!
Tina Lesson
Frances Wagner
Toni Campana ===> YOU ARE HERE!
Jo Anne Hewins
Laurie Meier
Tracie Evans Langley – the Sassy Stamper
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And I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year!!
Ohhh I love your combination of DSP and that’s a great fun fold!! Very pretty card. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks, Kristine! It’s super easy to make and lets you use up some of your DSP stash 😉
Toni, what a gorgeous, I love the fun fold and ‘THAT DSP!” So beautiful!
Thank you, Frances! I have to admit I really wasn’t wowed by the DSP until I had it in my hands. It’s so gorgeous. I will definitely be using every sheet in this pack 😉
Absolutely gorgeous and that ribbon just adds so much to it. Thanks for sharing
Thanks, Tina. I was a huge fan of the ribbon when we had it in silver and bought tons of it before it retired. I’m sure I’ll be doing the same thing with the gold version, lol!
I have totally fallen for this Online Exclusive suite of products. The designer series paper is GORGEOUS! I will have to try your card. Thanks for providing directions.
The same here, Martinette! Especially after receiving your awesome gift which really opened my eyes to it. You are such an enabler, lol!! But aren’t we all 😉
Toni – I LOVE fun fold cards, and this one is amazing! Thanks so much for sharing your design. What a great way to use 12 x 12 cardstock or DSP! I’m going to search my stash for paper to try with this fun fold technique. Happy New Year!
Lovely card, Toni! The fun fold is awesome. Thank you for sharing!