Floral Fan Cards

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing two Fan Cards I created recently. These are both 5 x 7 cards, when you are making this style of card, there are times when you have a spare piece of cardstock as you are cutting things in half, so it is easy to make two cards while you are cutting pieces. I used two different patterned papers which I have been wanting to use to make a card for ages.

You can find the tutorial on the Iced Images YouTube channel here. 

For the sentiment on this card I used the birthday sentiment from Spellbinders  Let's Celebrate - Sentiments Press Plate. Instead of better pressing the plate I foiled it and this particular sentiment is the result from using the left over foil and the solid foil plate.

I added a wax seal which was created using Spellbinders Floral Jewel Wax Seal which was the January 2025 Wax Seal of the month. To get the fancy shape, I used a metal mould which I poured the wax into before impressing the wax seal into the melted wax.

The sentiment used on this card, is from Alex Siberia Designs and is a Hot Foil Plate and die.

I also added red pearls to the corners of both cards.

For the inside of the cards I added to foiled sentiments which are from the Spellbinders You are Everything Press Plate and Waffle Flower Crafts Hey There Foil Plate set.

Sunflower Birthday Wishes

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Double Concertina Stepper Card that I created recently. As many of you know, I celebrated a birthday recently. One of my friends sent me a beautiful owl card using this style, as I really liked the card I went looking for a tutorial, which I found by Sam Calcott’s. You can find her tutorial here.

I also recently purchased some patterned paper pads designed by Iced Images, so I decided to pull out one of the pads to decorate my card. When I was cutting the panels for this card, I made sure to keep the pattern in sequence. Once I went to the trouble I didn’t want to hide the design with images or sentiments, so I kept that simple.

Here is a look at the back of my card. As you can see I decorated the back too. I kept the three centre panels white so that I could add a stamp sentiment and have a place to write a personal message. 

The concertina panels all fold to the front so that it fits in a 5 x 7 envelope.

Triangle Accordion Pocket Card

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog! Today I am sharing a birthday card I created recently, it's a new style to me ... a Triangle Accordion Pocket Card. I found this style of Facebook recently, someone was promoting a die to create this style. I went to check it out, but they didn't sell internationally. After looking a little closer I decided it was easy enough to figure out how to make and do it without a die, and of course then I could also make it a 5 x 7 card. The width is slightly less then 5 inches, but only about 1/8 inch.

To decorate the centre panel I used Spellbinders Heart Hands, which I have been wanting to play with for some time.



To create the card, I took a piece of A4 card, which I cut down to 7 inches along the short side. I placed the long side in my score board and scored down the centre. I then scored 1 inch either side of the score line. Next I took the front panel and cut diagonally from the to left side to the bottom right side. The piece that was removed becomes the pocket for the back panel.

I die cut the red filigree circle and white circle twice, one for the front and one for the back of the front circle. I added a birthday sentiment to the back circle using stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink's Big Birthday sentiments (although why the stamps are called big, I have no idea as the sentiments are mostly tiny lol!)

I almost forgot I had a pocket when I added the On the Line Birthday sentiment also from Papertrey Ink, but I remembered in time before the glue could stick to rescue this mistake. I die cut the sentiment 3 times to give it strength, especially the piece above the triangle panel.

I recently purchased some A4 paper pads from Iced Images on Amazon, which I used to decorate my card.

I added a small rectangle panel to add to the pocket. I decorated this with another filigree circle and a sentiment, as well as a rose from the paper pad.

Seeing the rectangle panel has two sides, I decided to add a white panel to the back with another sentiment. This is then a place for someone to write a personal message to the recipient of the card when it is time.