Papercraft Society

This card was made for a musical crafty friend who loves purple.

Cardbase: I made this much the same way as I did with a previous gate fold aperture card (See Button Heart Gate Fold Aperture Birthday Card). Cut a 5.5×12-inch piece of purple cardstock. Score at 2-inches, 4-inches, 8-inches and 10-inches. Fold as shown in video. On the gate fold panels, place circle with treble clef die with center of the circle over the fold and die-cut. With die still taped to card, close flaps and tape die to other side lining up the die to complete the circle.

Musical Decorations: All the musical decorations are die cut from black using the dies from the Paper Discovery box 9 of Papercraft Society kits.

Sentiments: “Happy Birthday” is a rubber stamp from Rubbernecker Stamps and was stamped onto the white rectangle before it was glued into the card, but after the black circle was glued in place. (See Button Heart Gate Fold Aperture Birthday Card video for how to line-up white rectangle for stamping).

Envelope: The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope that has the back stamped with musical staff and “A note to wish you well” all from Paper Discovery musical set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

Paper Discovery by Olga Direktorenko – Papercraft Society – Box 9 – Music

Stamps

Paper Discovery by Olga Direktorenko – Papercraft Society – Box 9 – Music
Rubbernecker Stamps – Red Rubber Stamp – 0218 SO – Happy Birthday

Papers

DCWV – 12×12 Textured Cardstock Stack – Brights
Recollections – 8.5×11 65 lb. Cardstock – White
Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black

Adhesives

Tools

Die Cutting Machine
Paper Trimmer
Bone Folder
Score Board
Stamping Platform
LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
Scissors
Paper Masking Tape
We R Memories – QuickStick

A lovely crafting friend gifted me the February 2021 Papercraft Society Box 17 by Olga Direktarenko from which I drew inspiration and supplies. Other inspiration for this card came from @Loomanic’s post on Craftword.com for the cabinet legs and from Hero Arts use of peek-a-boo doors in their September 2019 kit of the month.

Olga Direktarenko is known for designing dies and stamps under her Paper Discovery brand that allow you to create scenes from rooms to dioramas. Her love of tea, books and old furniture were her inspiration for this kit.

All the pieces for the cabinet were die cut from some heavy brown, wood grained cardstock which then was covered with ink to age it. The doors were then taped on using clear tape on the back side of the cabinet. A second large cabinet piece was cut without cutting any of the doors from white cardstock and glued to the back of the wood grained piece. With the doors taped open with removable tape, the sentiments from behind the doors were stamped in brown ink.

In order to achieve the 3-D look of the cabinet shelves having depth, the cabinet is raised on foam squares while the backs of the three shelves are adhered to the blue patterned paper with double sided tape. The legs were added after the cabinet was adhered to the card front. Tiny pewter colored stick-on pearls from the Papercraft Society kit were added as decorative knobs for the cabinet doors.

The dishes were die cut first and then stamped using a stamping platform and removeable taped doubled up on itself to hold the tiny dishes in place to be stamped. The dishes were then shaped using a ball tipped shaping tool (often used to shape flower petals) on the foam back of the stamping platform. Foam squares were used to adhere the dishes to the cupboard shelves.

As a finishing touch to the front of the card, a stamped and fussy cut “You’re TEA-rrific” sentiment was attached to the top with foam squares. The inside of the card is stamped in China blue “But first tea” with a tea set.