Dress My Craft

Shabby Chic is the theme of this card made with Karen Burniston’s June 2024 release of new dies. For this card, I used two of the new sets – Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Ons and Tree Add-Ons.

Cardbase: Use the Fancy Label Accordion die set for this step. Using a die cut frame with the inside pivot panel cut-out, trace the inside the frame onto the outside of the card base where you want the accordion frame to be. Cut out the opening and trace the opening onto the inside panel and cut that opening out too. Cover the inside of your cardbase with decorative papers. Cut out the openings out of the decorative papers. Cut the opening wider that the pencil marks as the decorative frames will cover it. Cover outside with decorative papers and cut the opening from the decorative papers.

Accordion Frame: Die-cut two whole Fancy Label Accordion frames from a decorative print cardstock. Cut two more whole frames from decorative paper but cut out the pivot panels in them. (Save cut -out pivot panels for other projects.)

Tree-Add-On Panel: Watch the assembly video for the Hearts Add-Ons to see how to cut the pivot panels and how to adhere the tree panel to them. (I used the half pivot panels to decorate the back side of the pivot panels that stayed.)

To finish the inside tree panels, I cut using a label die taped inside the pivot panel die to get a frame cut from gold matte cardstock. I cut two of these frames and glued the to the outside edges of the tree panel.

I decorated the tree shaped pop-out spaces with tiny handmade flower bouquets popped -up on foam squares.

Sentiments: I die cut the sentiments from black cardstock using the Celebrate and Happy Birthday Lorna Add-Ons. Cut a small white label using the small, dotted label die in Fancy Label Accordion die set for a personal message space. (I use double-side tape on the back of the label but wait to attach it after I have written my message.)

Envelope: Fits into an A7 envelope.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Papers

Stamperia – 8×8 Double-Sided Papers – Backgrounds – Christmas Greetings
Dress My Craft – 12×12 inch Single-Sided Cardstock – Teenie Weenies
Gold Matte Cardstock
Black Cardstock
Park Lane Paperie – A7 Cardbase and Envelope – White

Ink

Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Die Cutting Machine
Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
Scissors
Pencil

Miscellaneous

Little Birdie – Handmade Flowers – Red and Pink

How do you dress up an old stamp set? Add it to some distressed vintage-style floral papers and stamps and heat emboss the sentiment.

My creative mojo has been missing and to jump start it I tried stamping an older Art Impressions tri-fold stamp and die set and coloring it using watercolor pencils. Next, I fussy cut out the three images and went searching through my stash for some fun paper to make the card base from.

Because I had some mini slim envelopes in my stash, I made a 3 ¼ inch x 6-inch tri fold card from two pieces of heavy Dress My Craft cardstock that is printed only on one side. I cut one 3 ¼ inches x 12 inches piece of rose patterned card stock and a 3 ¼ inches x 6 ¼ inch piece of green leaves patterned card stock. The long rose piece I folded in half and the smaller leave piece I scored and fold ¼ inch in from one of the smaller sides. The ¼ inch tab was glued to the back of the fold rose piece to form a tri-fold card.

Because the inside of the card was plain white, I added pink vellum stripes to hide my seams inside and them covered the inside front and back panels with floral patterned paper from my stash which I believe was from Stampin’ Up.

I positioned my stamped, colored and cut out floral images following the layout on the packaging to determine the positioning of the front image. I traced the inside of the opening onto the card front and used the accompanying die to die cut the hole. Next, I glued the image in place on the front. I did the same for the middle image on the second flap, positioning the image so it shows through the aperture cut in the first image and then die-cutting the aperture. The final image was positioned, traced and then glue in place on the central panel.

Decorative patterned borders were stamped using several stamps from LeCrea Designs Lacy long stamp set. The “Happy Birthday” was gold heat embossed using a stamp from an older Apple Blossom stamp set.

Stamped on the back flap of a mini slim envelope from Taylored Expressions is the clover chain stamped in the same “Always Artichoke” green ink as the inside of the card.

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If you enjoyed this tri-fold card, check out some of my other trifolds:

One In A Melon

Festive Foliage and Hearts – Trifold card

Santa Vintage Trifold

Sleepytime Dreams

Materials Used:

Dies