Mid Week blog #58 - Fancy fold - step card

 Hello & welcome to my blog,

My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. Today's blog shows you how to create a fun fold step card without having to make cuts in the base card. Traditional step cards can be a little daunting when you are first starting out with fun folds so today's card takes away some of the anxiety by replacing the cutting step with the addition of a panel to create a 'faux' step card. I hope you enjoy this technique. 

This week I didn't take step by step photos as the instructions are pretty simple to follow. It looks like there's a lot to do but I've broken the instructions down into simple steps, hence 15 steps, but this is just to make it easy to follow. 

To create this card you will need:

Framed Florets stamp set & dies

Main colour cardstock - Basic White - 10.5cm x 29.7cm & 9.5cm x 11.4cm plus some for stamping your images.

Contrasting cardstock - Evening Evergreen - 10.1cm x 12cm (two pieces) & 10.1cm x 2.1cm.

DSP & Specialty papers - Festive Foils DSP - 9.8cm x 11.7cm (two pieces)  & 9.8cm x 1.8cm 

Gold & Rose gold Metallic Specialty paper for diecutting

Inks - Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Evening Evergreen & Magenta Madness

Stampin' Blends® - Light & Dark Rococo Rose, Light Evening Evergreen, Dark Soft Succulent, Light & Dark Melon Mambo & Dark Daffodil Delight.

Instructions:

Step 1: Score & burnish the Basic White card base at 12.3cm, 24.6 & 27.1cm. Crisp lines are needed to help the easel card stand nicely. 

Step 2: Score & burnish the Basic White centre strip at 7.5cm. 

Step 3: Attach one of the 9.8cm x 11.8cm Festive Foils DSP to one of the 10.1cm x 12cm Evening Evergreen mattes & adhere to the inside front that is behind the stepped folds.  

Step 4: Attach the Basic White centre strip to the front step then attach some glue dots to the outside areas that remain. Adhere the smallest Evening Evergreen & DSP strips to the front step, covering the white centre strip.

Step 5: Apply glue to the folded end of the centre strip, ensuring that you only apply it where it will contact the base of the card. Reverse the whole card & press this piece down to the back of the card base. When opened it will look like a regular step fold card.

Step 6: Diecut the oval frame from Evening Evergreen & DSP. You will only need the frame of the Evening Evergreen & the inside of the DSP for this card. Put the other pieces aside for another card.

Step 7: Attach the green frame to the centre strip of the card.

Step 8: Stamp the floral images onto the Basic White stamping piece & colour the flowers & leaves before diecutting them.

Step 9: Stamp the sentiment in Magenta Madness & diecut using this die

Reserve the outer edge of the frame for another card.

Step 10: Attach the floral spray to the front step of the card.

Step 11: Diecut some foliage from Gold metallic specialty paper. You can leave some parts of the leaves in if you wish or discard all.

Step 12: Decorate the framed sentiment with the flowers & leaves as you wish, reserving some for the reverse of the card. Attach to the green frames on the card with dimensionals. 

 

Step 13: Optional step: Turn the card over. Using the remaining stamped floral images, decorate around the centre strip where it is glued to the back of the card. Stamp an additional sentiment on the back of the card if desired. 

Step 13: Stamp some small images on the 9.5cm x 11.4cm piece of Basic White. 

Step 14: Adhere the stamped piece of Basic White to the 10.1cm x 12cm piece of Evening Evergreen & Festive Foils DSP mattes & adhere this to the inside of the card. 

 

Step 15: Stamp some images onto an envelope. You are finished!

I hope you enjoyed this blog. I'd love to see what you come up with if you try it so feel free to post some pics on my FaceBook page at craftedbyalison.

That's all I have for you for this post. Thanks for stopping by. My next blog will be on Sunday & features two stamp sets combined to create some different Christmas themed items. Next week's Mid Week blog looks at creating an octagonal box for gift giving. I hope you can join me for both of those.

Til next time, take care & keep creating. XX Alison