Good morning and Happy MAY! We’ve had some April showers so…the May flowers should surely follow!! My honeysuckle – wild AND cultivated! – is going crazy and…my tomatoes and squash are gittin’ it! AND – yesterday was a cool and sunny day – the kind of day we Georgians hope for in the dead of winter and in the unrelenting heat of summer! Gorgeous!
In the vein of sunny gardens – I’ve got a pretty fun fold card with a sneak peek at the new All Aflutter bundle and some pretty paper from the Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP – both available next Tuesday when the new May-Aug 2026 Catalog goes live! Take a look-see:
And the layout was inspired by The Paper Players challenge this week.
You’ll see this card – along with the other Design Team members’ cards – at this month’s Creative Creases Challenge! 😎 We’re ALWAYS wanting to see pretty fun folds so…I hope hope hope you’ll make one (or three!) and come share them with us! 🙂
This fun fold is a CASE of one my friend – and Critters-N-Creatin’ Krew team member! – Judi Hartbarger – shared recently on our team FB page! She called it a take on a book fold – which sounds about right. So – I’m calling this a Faux Book-Fold Front Flap Fun Fold Card! 😉
I started with a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Strawberry Slush cardstock that I scored at 4 1/4″ on the long side. Then, I placed the short side at the top of my Paper Trimmer and cut at 1 1/4″ from the edge down to the score line.
Using Liquid Glue, I adhered the 1 1/4″ wide flap on the front to the back of the card base – the “faux book fold”.
I matted a 1″ x 4″ piece of polka-dot Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP to a 1 1/8″ x 4 1/8″ piece of Strawberry Slush cardstock and then adhered it to the faux book fold panel.
I did the same with two 4″ x 4″ pieces of the DSP to Strawberry Slush mats and adhered them to the front and inside of the card base.
I cut a 3″ x 5″ piece of the Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP – the one with the black leaves printed on white – and then used Small Blending Brushes to add Strawberry Slush, Flirty Flamingo and Petal Pink ink to it.
I cut a 1″ piece from the left end of the panel. Using Liquid Glue – I adhered the larger piece to the card front and the smaller panel to the faux book fold panel – aligning the top and bottom edges and being sure to keep the design intact.
I stamped an All Aflutter sentiment in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on a 1/2″ wide strip of Strawberry Slush card stock and then trimmed it down to size. I adhered it to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I tied a small white Baker’s Twine bow and used a little Liquid Glue to adhere it to the card front right next to the sentiment.
On a piece of Basic White cardstock, I stamped the three-butterfly image from All Aflutter in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. Using a Dark Daffodil Delight (on the top) and a Dark Lemon Lolly (on the bottom) – I colored the wings and cut them out with the bundled All Aflutter Punch.
I lightly curled the wings – and used Stampin’ Dimensionals to adhere the butterflies to the card front.
I added some new Array of Dots (available on 5 May) in Flirty Flamingo and Lemon Lolly and the card front was done.
I scored and folded a 3 1/4″ x 6 1/2″ piece of Strawberry Slush cardstock at 3 1/4″ to make the inside card. On a 3 1/8″ x 3 1/8″ piece of Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP, I stamped the butterflies in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.
I inked just the word “Hi” on one of the sentiments in the All Aflutter set and stamped it right near the butterflies.
I adhered the panel to the front of the small card base – with the fold at the bottom – using Liquid Glue.
On a 3 1/8″ x 3 1/8″ piece of Basic White cardstock, I stamped an All Aflutter sentiment in Tuxedo Black. I did it by inking the first part of the sentiment – and stamping it. Then I did the same with the second part of the sentiment – stamping it under the first.
I inked and stamped the top butterfly image in Tuxedo Black, stamped the little “trail” image and used the Dark Daffodil Delight and Lemon Lolly Stampin’ Blends to color the butterfly.
I adhered the panel to the inside of the small card base and then used Liquid Glue to adhere the card to the inside of the larger card base and the card was done!
My Basic White Medium Envelope got the All Aflutter butterflies and a flight trail on the front…
…and more of the polka-dotted Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP on the envelope flap.
Et Voila! Well – this is a fun and easy little fun fold, don’t you think? Just a little something different! And I like the Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP with some pieces all colorful and some in black-and-white and ready to be colored however you like! If you like – or love! – butterflies, then the All Aflutter bundle will be one you’re going to want to add to your stash! Which you can do on…Tuesday, 5 May!
I hope you like – and have these goodies on your list for 5 May!
If you’d like to recreate this project, all the products and card cuts you’ll need are down below! And this is the card I made on yesterday’s Thursday After Lunch Bunch YouTube Live! If you’d like to see it – for the first time or again!
I’ve also created a printable PDF with written instructions and a list of the products used to create this project. You can download, print and/or save it by clicking this image:
Missed any tutorials? You can check out my past projects right here!
TTFN
M
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Get the Stampin’ Up! Products Used in this Project: You’ll also need the All Aflutter Bundle, Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP; Peaceful Pine Cardstock and the Array of Dots when they’re available.
Card Cuts Used in This Project:
Peaceful Pine Cardstock: 5 1/2″ x 8″ (card base, scored and folded at 4 1/4″ and then cut from the top to the score line at 1 1/4″)
Strawberry Slush Cardstock: 1 1/8″ x 4 1/8″ (mat for side panel); 4 1/8″ x 4 1/8″ (x2 – mat for card front and inner liner); 3 1/4″ x 6 1/2″ (small inside card base, scored and folded at 3 1/4″); 1/2″ x cut-to-fit (sentiment)
Basic White Cardstock: 3 1/8″ x 3 1/8″ (inner liner for small inside card base)
Beautiful Ordinary Life DSP: 1″ x 4″ (side panel); 4″ x 4″ (x2 – card front and inner liner); 3″ x 5″ (colored front panel – divided into a 1″ x 3″ and a 3″ x 4″); 3 1/8″ x 3 1/8″ (front of small inside card base); 2 1/4″ x 6″ (envelope flap)
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Finn Fan Fix 
Addy went from my lap over to her Dad last night. Finn….uhm…helped her make that choice!
However – THAT wasn’t flying with the jelly-butt, either.
Wisely helping Addy to find a slightly different spot.
This works, too!
And met with Finn’s approval so he could go back to…
TTFN
M
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