Stampin’ Up! Iconic Frosted Forest Front Flap Birthday Card with Video for Creative Creases #87

Good morning and happy – believe it or not – FRIDAY!  Yup – here we are again on the cusp of the weekend.  And it’s ALMOST the end of July, too.  Wow.  That means – it’s ALMOST the end of the EARN portion of Bonus Days!  You’ve got about 2 more weeks to gather up those $5 coupons to SPEND in August!

Now – maybe, as you’re looking at your shopping list – you’re thinking about the Frosted Forest Bundle and some Iconic Celebrations 6″ x 6″ DSP!  These are some of our awesome Online Exclusives – and they’re the focus of today’s Front Flap Fun Fold Birthday Card!  Take a look-see:

You’ll see this card – along with the other Design Team members’ cards –  at this week’s Creative Creases Challenge! We’re all about the Fun Folds and I hope you’ll come and join us!

I started by adhering some Iconic Celebrations 6″ x 6″ DSP onto a Crumb Cake mat using Liquid Glue.  Then I adhere the matted panel to a Cajun Craze card base with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For the Front Flap (which is just a small landscape tent-fold card in Mossy Meadow cardstock), I started by “flicking” color onto a small Basic White panel using the brush end of three Stampin’ Blends – Light Mossy Meadow, Light Cajun Craze and Light Crumb Cake.

Now – there are probably as many ways to “flick” color as there are folks who flick – but my clever friend Carol Buckalew (inkybeestampers.com) showed me this one – which WORKS great AND doesn’t do damage to the brush on your Blend.

With the panel on my work surface, I struck a solid object (in my case it was a metal utility knife) with my Stampin’ Blend – with the brush end open.  As I did that – ink magically LEAPT from the brush onto the panel.  I just did it – using the three colors – till I was happy with it!  Which was kind of a lot – cuz I was so tickled with how well it was working!

Using the bare-tree die in the Frosted Forest die set, I cut out a Mossy Meadow and a Cajun Craze line of trees.  I snipped the  extra “ground” off the Cajun Craze die cut – and then used Liquid Glue to adhere it to the back of the Mossy Meadow die cut – with the trees offset.  Check the video – linked below! – if you want to see how to do that!

I adhered the layered die cut to the bottom of my splattered panel with Liquid Glue and then snipped off the excess cardstock.

I adhered the panel to a Crumb Cake mat with Liquid Glue.

I stamped a Frosted Forest sentiment in Cajun Craze and the bird image in Crumb Cake ink.  I colored the bird – lightly! – with the Light Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend.

I added some gold Adhesive-backed Metallic Gems – and then adhered the card front to the front of the small Mossy Meadow card base with Liquid Glue.

For the inside, I added more Blends-Flickerings (I’m pretty sure that’s the technical term!) to a Basic White panel.  In the corner, I stamped the little bird in Crumb Cake ink and colored it with the Light Crumb Cake Stampin Blend.

I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to the inside of the little Mossy Meadow card base – and then adhered the whole card to the main card base with more Liquid Glue – and the card was done!

My Basic White Medium Envelope got the Blends-Flickerings (this is going to catch on, I know!) – plus the Frosted Forest bird image – in the bottom left corner of the front…

…and more Iconic Celebrations 6″ x 6″ DSP on the envelope flap.

Et Voila!  I love when a fun fold is so easy, like this one, don’t you?!  Just pretty papers – and pretty images and some die cuts – arranged in a fun, different way!  Iconic Celebrations DSP is wunnermus – it covers SO many possible card-needs!  And the Frosted Forest bundle is amazing – one of my favorites, and I didn’t even USE the awesome masks that are part of the bundle!  These are Online Exclusives – just a couple of ALL the products that you can only find Online!  Like…here.

I hope you like!

If you’d like to recreate this card, all the products and card cuts you’ll need are down below! And this is the card that I made yesterday for my Thursday After Lunch Bunch video.  If you’d like to see it – for the first time or again – here ’tis!

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!

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Get the Stampin’ Up! Products Used in this Project:

Frosted Forest Bundle (English) – 164137

Price: $64.75

Iconic Celebrations 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper – 164193

Price: $12.50

Cajun Craze 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 119684

Price: $11.50

Mossy Meadow 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 133676

Price: $11.50

Crumb Cake 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 120953

Price: $11.50

Basic White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 159276

Price: $13.00

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147085

Price: $9.00

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147116

Price: $9.00

Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack – 154882

Price: $11.00

Cajun Craze Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack – 154879

Price: $11.00

Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack – 154890

Price: $11.00

Adhesive-Backed Metallic Gems – 163780

Price: $9.00

Basic White Medium Envelopes – 159236

Price: $11.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue – 110755

Price: $6.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.25

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Card Cuts Used in This Project:

Cajun Craze Cardstock: 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ (main card base); Frosted Forest die cut trees

Mossy Meadow Cardstock: 4 3/8″ x 6 1/4″ (Front flap card – scored and folded at 3 1/8″)

Crumb Cake Cardstock: 4″ x 5 1/4″ (mat for main card front); 3″ x 4 1/4″ (mat for front flap card front);

Basic White Cardstock: 2 7/8″ x 4 1/8″ (front flap card front); 3″ x 4 1/4″ (front flap card inner liner)

Iconic Celebrations 6″ x 6″ DSP: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (main card front); 2 1/4″ x 6″ (envelope flap)

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