Today I am sharing a Fancy Fold Window Card in two different ways. This is my contribution to the Creativity Abounds Design Team’s Blog Hop for this month. As you hop around you will see lots of inspiration.

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Fancy Fold Window Card

I saw this fancy fold on a post by Linda Schnabel on Pinterest and thought I would give it a go with Designer Series papers from the Sale-a-Bration offering.

Favored Flowers Book Fold Card

This fancy fold features a basic card fold on the front with a concertinaed insert.

For this first card I started with a Basic Black card base created from a 14.9cm x 21cm (8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) piece of cardstock. A mat of Favored Flowers Designer Series Paper was stuck to the front of the card base, adding glue just around the edges. After adding the mat of the Designer Series paper to the front of the card, an aperture was cut in the front. The cardstock circle and Designer Series Paper are then separate to use later.

The insert was created from a 14.4cm x 20cm (51/4″ x 8″) piece of Basic White, which was scored at 10cm/15cm (4″/6″). It was stuck inside the card with the concertina fold on the right hand side. Once the insert was in place, the black card circle that was die cut from the card front was stuck to the concertina insert, using the front aperture as a guide. The Designer Series Paper circle was positioned on the inside of the card.

A Rich Razzleberry card circle was added to the Black card circle. Some flowers were then fussy cut from the Favored Flowers Designer Series paper and arranged on the front.

The sentiment from the “Go-To Greetings” was heat embossed in white on Rich Razzleberry cardstock and then backed with Black. This was added to the card front with dimensionals and a bow of black twine. Some Matte Black Dots were used to finish the front.

Dainty Flowers Tent Fold Card

This second card uses the same basic idea of a card base with a concertinaed insert, only this time the card base was a tent fold. The Designer Series Paper I used for this card was the Dainty Flowers paper, another Sale-a-Bration offer.

A blending brush was used to add Rich Razzleberry ink around the edge of the paper.

Before adding the Basic White circle to the concertina piece it was stamped with images from the Dainty Delight stamp set. Colour was added with watercolor pencils and the edges of this circle was blended with Rich Razzleberry ink.

The “celebrate you” sentiment comes from the Dainty Delight stamp set . It is stamped and has ink blending in Rich Razzleberry.

A bow of ribbon was added to the card front using White Glittered Organdy Ribbon and some Iridescent rhinestones embellished the project.

The stamping and colouring on the inside of the card reflected the stamping on the front circle and the circle of Designer Series paper was added to the inside of the card.

Video

You can watch the video of these two cards being created on this video of a recent Live.

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These papers are very different in style, but are both beautiful collections. They feature a mixture of floral and more generic prints. I will certainly be making the most of them while they are available.

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Meanwhile stay safe and stay well

Helen xx

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