To celebrate the 100th Festive Friday Challenge, I have created this Pop Up Diamond Card
We are really excited to be celebrating this milestone and hope you enjoy all the cards we have created to inspire you. More importantly we hope that you will join the fun by linking you own project to this special challenge.
Unsurprisingly, our 100th challenge inspo list provides lots of opportunity to create celebratory cards with lots of pizzazz. Have you got a milestone birthday or anniversary coming up in your social circle? Or perhaps you just want to get creative with some fancy folds. Check out this inspo list.
The Inspo List is 10 items you can choose from to create your project in our card making and paper crafting challenge. Incorporate THREE of the items in your project and link up! And guess what? Your project doesn’t have to be about the theme at all! The selected festivity is just a unique way to come up with a fun and interesting inspiration list!
My project used: celebration, gold, fancy fold, sequins, patterned papers, punches and splatters.
My Pop Up Diamond Card
I wanted to create a fancy fold card, so I chose this Pop Up Diamond card. Any celebration deserves some gold foil and the new Symbols of Fortune Speciality Designer Series Paper provided the perfect splatters of gold foiling. I also used mats of gold foil ( making sure to gut the centre to use in other projects)
The image and sentiment were both taken from the Queen Anne’s Lace stamp set which can be found in the Annual Catalogue.
Instructions
Once you have burnished along all the score lines, you will stick your base mats in place before sticking the bottom triangle section to the base.
The mats for the card were:
- Gold Foil 8.5cm x 8.5cm (3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″) ; 12.1cm x 5.8cm (4 3/4″ x 2 1/4″); 6.5cm x 6.5cm (2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″) – cut from centre of larger square
- DSP 8cm x 8cm (3″x 3″); 11.6cm x 5.3cm (4 1/2″ x 2″)
The stamped image and sentiment were both heat embossed in gold onto Smoky Slate cardstock. The flower was fussy cut and the sentiment was punched with the Label Me Fancy punch. A second punched piece from Gold Foil was cut and layered on the back of the sentiment panel.
Finishing touches were added with a Bumblebee trinket, some gold sequins and some gold thread.
To write your greeting, either add a panel of Basic White card to the base of the card, or a 8.5cm x 8.5cm piece of Basic White card to the back of the diamond. With this option, it may be easier to write it before you stick it in place.
Let’s Hop
I hope you have enjoyed my project. Do leave a comment if you can, because it certainly makes my day. Then it is time to hop around all the other projects
For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design team.
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Do give a Pop Up Diamond card a go. I am already planning another one. Is your mind buzzing with ideas for your challenge card? We can’t wait to see them.
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Meanwhile stay safe and stay well
Helen xx
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What a fabulous fancy fold Helen – love the gold/grey combo and the addition of the bee is the perfect finishing touch.
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Absolutely stunning card, Helen! Awesome fun fold too!
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Just gorgeous, and a wonderful fold, thanks for posting the dimensions!
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Beautiful card, Helen. I love the fold, the colors, and I am very partial to Queen Anne’s Lace.
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Beautiful card! Love the fold and the gorgeous DSP!
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Beautiful, Helen! This fancy fold really shows off this gorgeous paper. What a perfect card for celebrating our 100th challenge! Thank you for the great instructions…I’ll have to try to making this fold! Have a wonderful week!
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Helen, that shimmer and shine is just gorgeous and I love that you did a fancy fold! What a wonderful card to celebrate the 100th challenge! Thank you for providing the instructions for your card, too!
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jaydee
Wow Helen What a great Celebration Card! Your fold is amazing and I love how you used that DSP.