Mid week blog #130 - Puzzle Slider funfold with Latte Love

 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. I blog twice a week, once on a Sunday where I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies & sometimes special DSP. My second blog is mid week on a Wednesday where I look at techniques, colour challenges, card sketches, fun folds, tools & equipment & ways to make or improve your projects. That's what this blog is about.

This week I am sharing a fun fold with you called a Puzzle Slider. Fun Folds are always high on my list of projects as they allow you to give a little WOW or pizzazz to your cards with only a little extra effort. This fun fold is super simple to create but looks impressive. I hope you enjoy my creation.

I was inspired to create this style of card by a number of posts I'd seen but based it on Kayla Renee's Youtube post, reversing the placement of the blocks. My base is Crumb Cake with Early Espresso as a contrast for the mattes and A Little Latte & Country Woods DSP.

To create one of your own, start with a base measuring 29.6cm x 10.5cm. Score it at 3.7cm & 7.5cm at each end of the base. Fold so that there is a mountain on each end ensuring you burnish the folds very well as this will help keep the card closed.

Cut 2 mattes (I chose a contrasting colour) 9.9cm x 5.2cm and two more measuring 4.9cm x 5.2cm.

Cut 2 pieces of DSP measuring 9.5cm x 4.8cm and two more measuring 4.5cm x 4.8cm.

Adhere the DSP pieces to their corresponding mattes.

Apply adhesive to the front panels of the card base & apply one small panel & one larger panel to each side, alternating their orientation as shown below.

I added a Stitched Shapes oval made with A Little Latte DSP, using dimensionals only where it touched the right hand panels.

 

As I was using A Little Latte DSP I decided to keep the theme going with a plunger of 'coffee', some cups & coffee beans. The Latte Love dies have a heap of different dies that create items not included in the stamp set. I used Silver Foil for the frame of the plunger, vellum for the 'glass' & Early Espresso for the 'coffee'. The cups are diecut from Calypso Coral & the beans are Early Espresso also.

To assemble the plunger together I applied small dots of glue to the frame, only where it would not show through the vellum. I then added some size appropriate pieces of dimensionals to raise it up. One cup is adhered with liquid glue directly to the oval, the second has double glue dots and the beans have one layer of glue dots.

To finish the inside of the card I sponged some Early Espresso in the corner of some Basic White cardstock, stamped & coloured some coffee beans & added a couple of coffee 'splotches'. This became the inside of the card, ready for writing on.

The front then just needed a few Adhesive Backed Swirl Dots & it was complete.

I loved using this fun fold as it is easy to assemble & the panels can be switched around if you prefer.

That's all I have for you this week. I hope you enjoyed learning this fold. 

My next post is on Sunday. It will be a scheduled post as I am off to beautiful Sorrento (in Victoria, not Italy unfortunately!) for a weekend of creating with my sister & our monthly card group. We'll be having a shoebox swap where each of us creates a card or project then assemble enough pre-cut kits for everyone to make one of their own. We'll also be crafting up a storm to create as many cards as we can for charities. It will feature some cute mini cards made with the Country Birdhouse stamps & dies.

Then next week's Mid Week blog I will be walking you through making gift bags which always come in handy but especially with Christmas not too far away!

I hope you can join me for both of them. 

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