Stampin’ Up! Love of Leaves Tower Pinwheel Fun Fold with Video Tutorial

Good morning!  I hope your weekend is going well!  We had a VERY good time last night – ate well, with good friends – and fun news!! 👶👶👶👼👼👼

So…if you were able to join me yesterday for my EARLY! Facebook Live video – I appreciate you spending part of your long weekend with me.  If not, but you’d like to watch the replay – here’s the link!

Several of my teammates had done this kind of card and posted it on our team page – but…it sort of bamboozled me.  I simply couldn’t see how it was done!  So… I went to the source of all knowledge.  The internet.  And found a few vids to watch.  Once I saw it – it all popped into place.  So…let me show YOU how easy this card is (but you don’t have to tell your friends.  Just smile modestly and…maybe look a little weary…when they exclaim over it!).

I decided to decorate mine using the cool Love of Leaves stamp set and coordinating Stitched Leaves die set – and some cool Pattern Party DSP (this is the huge pack of paper that you can get for free with an individual order or as host with a workshop hitting the $150 mark in retail!).  Take a look-see:

I started with a piece of Basic Black cardstock cut at 4 1/4″ x 5 3/4″.  Then, using the scoring blade on my Paper Trimmer, I scored along the long side at 3/4″, 1 1/2″, 2 1/4″ and 3″.

Then I folded at the score lines – and burnished – to create a little box – with a large flap still left over.  Using Liquid Glue, I adhered the little box together and to the leftover flap.  That is a LOT easier to show than to type – so…check the video – it’ll be near the start!

I cut three more pieces of Basic Black at 2 3/4″ x 4 1/4″ and used Liquid Glue to adhere one to each remaining face of the little box.

And…Boom!  Tower Pinwheel!

The “cake was made” – time to “frost” it!

I cut mats from Mango Melody – there are two sizes to cut – four of each.

Then I selected two coordinating designs from the Pattern Party DSP and used Liquid Glue to adhere them to all their mats and then to their panels on the card base.

I left two of the larger panels open for sentiments.

On a piece of Basic White, I stamped the first sentiment from Love of Leaves in Cajun Craze.  Then I inked the large leaf with Mango Melody, added Pumpkin Pie ink to the edges of all the petals with my Blending Brush – and stamped the panel in each corner.

I adhered the panel to a Mango Melody mat and then to its panel on the card base.

I did essentially the same for the second larger Basic White panel.  This time I inked a different leaf – and stamped it right over top of the sentiment.  Then I adhered it to its panel on the card base.

The final Love of Leaves sentiment is stamped in Cajun Craze on Basic White and cut out with a die from the Hippo & Friends Die set – then adhered to the DSP panel with Liquid Glue.

For the last panel – I cut out a Mango Melody Stitched Leaves die cut leaf.  Then I used my Blending Brush to add Mango Melody ink the edges of the leaf.  I adhered this to the last remaining large panel.

I tied a little Linen Thread bow and adhered it to the die cut leaf with a scrunched up Glue Dot.  Then I popped some Pumpkin Pie Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels here and there and this fun fold card was done!

My Basic White Medium Envelope  (yes – the card folds flat and fits in a regular A2 envelope!!) got the Love of Leaves image in Mango Melody and Pumpkin Pie on the front…

…and a little more Pattern Party DSP on the envelope flap.

Et Voila!  Oh boy!  I LOVE this Tower Pinwheel Fun Fold!  Looks soooo complicated – but…we know the secret now, right?!?  It’s harder deciding how to DECORATE it than it is to BUILD the base, right??  I love the Love of Leaves and the coordinating (but not bundled anymore!) Stitched Leaves Die set – so I’m really glad my eye hit upon it in my search for stamping inspiration!  AND – the Pattern Party DSP is amaze-balls!  Black and white on one side – with beautiful colors on the other – and you get 48 – 12″ x 12″ sheets.  For.  Free!  Ask me how to get hooked up!

I hope you like!

If you’d like to recreate this card, all the products and card cuts you’ll need are down below!

TTFN

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Card Cuts Used in This Project:

Basic Black Cardstock: 4 1/4″ x 5 3/4″ (card base, scored and folded at 3/4″, 1 1/2″, 2 1/4″ and 3″ on the long side); 2 3/4″ x 4 1/4″ (x3 – pinwheel panels)

Mango Melody Cardstock: 1 3/4″ x 4 1/8″ (x4 – mats for smaller panels); 2 5/8″ x 4 1/8″ (x4 – mats for larger panels); Stitched Leaves die cut leaf

Basic White Cardstock: 2 1/2″ x 4″ (x2 – sentiment panels); Hippo & Friends die cut (third sentiment)

Pattern Party DSP: 1 5/8″ x 4″ (x4 – smaller panels); 2 1/2″ x 4″ (x2 – larger panels); envelope flap

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