Pals Blog Hop - "Wicked Folds"

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for October 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes.  This month our projects feature cards made using “wicked” folds. What is a “wicked” fold? It is anything other than the standard A2 card fold. We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below.  The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

I believe this is called an "easel card", or a version of one. It's not wicked at all, but easy to duplicate. You simply cut the card base the same way you would (any shape or size) then cut out the middle of the front to make a "frame." (I made a 3/4" cut using my Stampin' Trimmer, turning the card for each side).  Score the frame horizontally halfway down the frame and then make a second card front "frame" the same size as your card front and adhere that over the bottom of the fold. When you close the card it looks like the photo below. It's flat for mailing. You could make it a shaker care using TWO Window Sheets instead of the Window Sheet and Watercolor Paper like I used here.

The little stamped circles popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals help keep the card standing up.

In this version, I placed an Window Sheet between the frame and my watercolor paper. The watercolor paper has a skyline painted on it with four birds drawn on. The Window Sheet has the motorcycle stamped in Jet Black Stazon. In person it looks more 3-D with the bike in the foreground. I added the top frame using Stampin' Dimensionals. The motorcycle does not look fuzzy in person, but when I uploaded the photos, they blurred a little for some reason. Sorry about that! :-(

Materials Used: One Wild Ride stamp set, Watercolor Paper, Window Sheets, Pumpkin Pie and Very Vanilla card stock, Jet Black Stazon, Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker; Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight and Soft Sky inks; Big Shot with Bunch of Banners Framelits, 3/4" Circle Punch, Tombow Adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals.

Thanks for visiting. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month's Pals Blog Hop!

Blog Hop Line-up:  

1. Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
2. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
3. Sherrie Gross at Stampin' Sunshine
4. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin'
5. Beth Fairweather at Beth Fairweather Designs
6. Amy Hoptay at Craft Carnivore
7. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
8. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
9. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
10. Lynn Tague at Beyond Beaches & Blessings
11. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
12. Jackie Diediker at Stampin' Jackie
13. Jeanie Stark at Just Stampin'
14. Karen Hallam at Karen's Stampin' Habit!
15. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
16. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
17. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
18. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
19. Staci Rivera at Clever Bow Tie Designs
20. Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
21. Rae Harper Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts

Gorgeous Grunge For All Things-PPA276

Another week, another Pals Paper Arts Challenge! Can you believe how fast the year goes by? I'm so thankful that you dropped by to see what I created using the sketch below.

I used my Gorgeous Grunge set to make a background of splatters in three colors. Then I added some leaf stalks with the bow from For All Things. For texture, I embossed the background piece with the Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. For some elegance, I added three 3/4" Gold Foil circles to match the sketch. I added a little isolated "hello" from the For All Things set. For more texture, I popped up the sentiment using Stampin' Dimensionals. My color scheme was: Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede and Crushed Curry.

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Halloween Treats and Stamp Treats!

I made these simple and fun covers for mini-M&M treats for all of my Workshop attendees last night. They were very simple to put together and I got the idea from Patty Bennett. She used a different paper and a different shape for her mini Hershey Bars, but the bat, "boo" and moon with a golden bow were the same. I love how that moon looks!

I fussy cut those bats and the "boo" was cut using a 3/4" Circle Punch. My ink colors were Basic Black and Tangelo Twist. The Designer Paper is Typeset Specialty. I didn't really put folds into it, just use Tear & Tape to adhere it to the bag and then to itself. The pieces were cut 4" x 6".

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Donut Thank You!

 

This is a cheerful way to let someone know you are thinking of them! If you hand deliver the card, you'd better include some REAL donuts!! These look very good, but aren't edible!

 Rows and rows of colorful and sprinkled donuts.... YUM! Thanks to Sprinkles On Top stamp set, you can create many "flavors" of donuts for your cards! I popped some of them up after punching out using the 3/4" Circle Punch for a little dimension. I used the "Just Because" from the Tin of Cards stamp set. That set is going to get a lot of use by me!! See this post if you haven't explored Tin of Cards yet!

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