Stampin’ Up! In the Pines Bundle Sneak Peek Fun Fold with Video Tutorial

Happy Friday, y’all!  I hope you’ve had a wonderful week – we’ve been in the tropical storm pattern all week.  Muggy.  Hot.  Rain every day.

Guess how well our lavender plants are doing?

If you guessed…not so well, then…you are correct!  We’ve got as much drainage as we could manage but…the little babies are struggling with their wet feet.

They may have trench foot.  Hmm.  Maybe I need to sprinkle some Dr. Scholl’s foot powder on them? 🤔🤔🤔

Or not….

So, if you were able to join me yesterday for my YouTube live, I appreciate you spending some time with me – if not, but you’d like to see the replay, here ’tis! 🙂

I am really loving the In The Pines Bundle – with the wonderful tree images and simple sentiments for the season – and the bundled Pines Dies are truly stunning!  I used them – with some returning Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP to make my fave fun fold – a Double-Easel.  Take a look-see:

Since this is a pretty Christmas-y card – even without the actual WORD on the card – I decided I could play along with the Christmas in July theme over at The Card Concept.  I think I’d classify this as somewhere between Clean-and-Layered and leaning toward Classy and Elegant, as far as the styles defined on the challenge. I took the trees and stars as starting points from the photo!  And then adapted it to more my style of Christmas card!

So –  take a gander at the video to see how to do the scoring and folding – basically, this is a regular A2 card made as a portrait tent card – in this case it’s a Soft Suede card base.

Then, I created the double-easel with a 4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Night of Navy card stock – that I scored at 5 1/4″ and 7 7/8″ along the long side.

I adhered the “back” of the easel panel to a Crumb Cake mat.

The stars on the Night of Navy field come from the Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP – which is returning in the Aug – Dec 2020 Mini Catalog!!  I adhered a piece to the back of the easel and a smaller piece on the front-most easel panel.

My “snow” is three pieces of Whisper White that I cut using the edge dies in the new Pines Die set.  I added “snow squiggles” in stamped-off-TWICE Night of Navy.  On the shortest “drift” – I stamped the sentiment from In The Pines in Night of Navy. Then I adhered the larger drift to the easel and popped the sentiment drift on with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I cut numerous pine trees – both the solid and detailed tree cuts – in Mossy Meadow and stacked them with Liquid Glue.  Then I adhered two of them to the front easel with Liquid Glue and then added the Soft Suede Moose Punch moose.  I popped the final – large – tree onto the sentiment drift with Liquid Glue.

For the back panel – I VERY lightly sponge-daubered Night of Navy onto a Whisper White Layering Circles die cut – and my dauber was also VERY dry! – then I added it to the panel with Liquid Glue to create the full moon.

I adhered a small tree with Glue, added a snow drift and then popped a larger tree on top with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Then I added a single Star Designer Element by the sentiment and the card front/easel was done!

On the inside, I stamped a second In The Pines sentiment in Night of Navy on a Whisper White panel.  In the bottom corner I stamped the outline and fill tree shapes in Mossy Meadow and added stamped-off-TWICE Night of Navy snow quiggles.  And one more Star Designer Element!

I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to Night of Navy and Crumb Cake mats and into the Soft Suede A2 card base, adhered the card front/easel with Liquid Glue and the card was done!

My Whisper White Medium Envelope got more In The Pines trees and snow squiggles on the front…

…and a little more Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP on the envelope flap.

Et Voila!  Oh my goodness – I do love how this In The Pines stamp set and bundled Pines Dies comes together on this fun double-easel, don’t you? They have the perfect images and sentiments…and die cut trees!!…

…to let you create wonderful snowy, Christmas-y scenes!  And – the Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP is just as stunning and elegant now as it was when it debuted last year. SO happy it’s back!

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Card Cuts Used in This Project:

Soft Suede Card Stock: 4 1/4″ x 11″ (card base, scored and folded at 5 1/2″); Moose punch

Night of Navy Card Stock: 4″ x 10 1/2″  (easel – scored and folded at 5 1/4″ and 7 7/8″); 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″  (mat for inner liner)

Crumb Cake Card Stock: 4″ x 5 1/2″ (mats for card front and for inner liner)

Mossy Meadow Card Stock: Pines Dies die cut pine trees

Whisper White Card Stock:  1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ (sentiment snow drift); 2 1/4″ 3 3/4″ (x 2 – larger snow drifts on front easel and back panel); 2 3/8″ Layering Circle Die Cut (moon); 3 3/4″ x 5″ (inner liner)

Brightly Gleaming Specialty DSP:  3 3/4″ x 5″ (card front);  2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ (on front easel panel); envelope flap

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