Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Butterflies & Bokeh Triple Flap Criss Cross Card with Video

Good morning and happy Friday!  Hope you’ve had a good week and are looking forward to a three-day weekend! Hopefully you have Monday off!

My card today is a fun – and easy! – fun fold – I’ve called it a Triple Flap Criss Cross Card.  No clue if that’s it’s real name but…it surely does tell you what it is!  This one is festooned with some die cut Beautiful Butterflies – flittering and fluttering across a background of Beautiful Bokeh DSP!  And – I’ve left the inside blank – so it could be a birthday card – a new baby card – Anniversary – promotion at work…SOOO many things that might need celebrating!  Take a look-see:

I started this one by making a basic gate fold card.  Starting with a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Pecan Pie cardstock, I used my Simply Scored Scoring Tool to score on the long side at 2 1/8″ and 6 3/8″.  I folded both score lines “in” – aka…a typical gate fold. 🙂

Using Liquid Glue, I matted two Fresh Freesia pieces of the Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ DSP on Daffodil Delight and then adhered them to the two “gates”.

The triple criss-cross panels are three pieces of Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ DSP.  On the Fresh Freesia piece for the middle panel, I stamped the Beautiful Butterflies sentiment in Blackberry Bliss ink – pushing it as far to the right side of the panel as it would go.

Then, using the little splatter image from Beautiful Butterflies, I stamped splatters in Berry Burst on all three panels.

I matted all three panels on Daffodil Delight cardstock.

I closed the gates and then used Liquid Glue on HALF of each of the matted panels to adhere them to the gates.  The top and bottom matted panel are adhered on their LEFT sides and the center on its RIGHT side.  Uhm – it case it’s not clear from the picture – the Liquid Glue goes on the BACK of the matted panels.  🤦‍♀️

Using the dies in the Beautiful Butterflies die set, I cut out three Berry Burst and two Daffodil Delight small butterflies and small butterfly bodies (3 Berry Burst and two Daffodil Delight.  I also cut out FIVE of the butterflies from the flowerdy pattern in the Floral & Gingham Vellum Specialty DSP.

I lightly curled the wings of the Vellum die cut butterflies and then used a little Liquid Glue in the middle section to adhere them to the cardstock butterflies.  I used more Liquid Glue to adhere corresponding bodies to the wings.

I adhered the butterflies on the top and bottom panel using Liquid Glue.

I tied a small bow from Gold Twisted Thread and adhered it to the panel with Liquid Glue.  On the back of the butterfly, I used two small pieces of Stampin’ Dimensional – one behind the head and one on the bottom end of the body – and used them to adhere the butterfly over the bow. Note – with ALL the butterflies, you want to be sure they’re not hanging far enough off the edges that they interfere with the opening and closing of the three panels.

All clear as mud?  Check the video and ALL will become clear! 🙂

I added three silver pearls from the Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls to each of the three panels and the card front was done.

On the inside, I stamped the Beautiful Butterflies detailed butterfly in Daffodil Delight ink in the corner of a Basic White panel.  I stamped the splatters in Berry Burst – stamping them twice in each spot (the second stamp is offset the tiniest bit and NOT re-inked before stamping!).

I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to the inside of the card and the card was done!

My Basic White Medium Envelope got the Daffodil Delight butterfly and Berry Burst dots on the front…

…and more of the Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ DSP on the envelope flap.

Et Voila!  So – the Beautiful Butterflies bundle is…wonderful!  I LOVE the pretty die cut butterflies – and that there are great sentiments and stamped butterflies, too – lots of occasions to celebrate with this set!  And let’s not forget the Hybrid Embossing Folder that is part of this bundle!  Bokeh is so on-trend – and this Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ DSP is perfect in ALL its colors!

I hope you like!

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 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:

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Beautiful Butterflies Bundle (English) – 164615

Price: $59.25

Beautiful Bokeh 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper – 164607

Price: $12.50

Floral & Gingham Vellum 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper – 164713

Price: $10.00

Pecan Pie 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 161717

Price: $11.50

Daffodil Delight 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 119683

Price: $11.50

Berry Burst 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock – 144243

Price: $11.50

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

Price: $13.00

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147092

Price: $9.00

Berry Burst Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147143

Price: $9.00

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Pad – 147094

Price: $9.00

Basic Gray & Smoky Slate Pearls – 163416

Price: $7.50

Gold Twisted Thread – 164603

Price: $7.50

Basic White Medium Envelopes – 159236

Price: $11.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue – 110755

Price: $6.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals – 104430

Price: $4.25

Simply Scored Scoring Tool – 122334

Price: $37.00

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Card Cuts Used in the This Project:

Pecan Pie Cardstock: 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ (card base, scored and folded at 2 1/8″ x 6 3/8″ on the long side)

Daffodil Delight Cardstock: 2″ x 5 3/8″ (x2 – mats for two gate panels on card front); 1 5/8″x 3 7/8″ (x3 – three front criss-cross panels);Beautiful Butterflies die cut butterflies and bodies (x2 of each)

Floral & Gingham Vellum Specialty DSP:  Beautiful Butterflies die cut butterflies (x5 of each)

Berry Burst Cardstock:  Beautiful Butterflies die cut butterflies and bodies (x3 of each)

Basic White Cardstock:  4″ x 5 1/4″ (inside panel)

Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″  DSP:  1 7/8″ x 5 1/4″ (x2 – two gate panels on card front); 1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ (x3 – three DSP front criss-cross panels); 2 1/2″ x 6″ (envelope flap)

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