How to make a floating pop-up gatefold birthday card

Hello Today I’m showing you how to make a gatefold birthday card with a couple of floating pop-ups on the inside. This was one of my card class projects, but the die cut flowers were a bit fiddly so some of my lovely crafting friends simplified it, which I loved and have re-created in the […]

How to make a split panel birthday card

Hello Today I’m going to show you how easy it is to make a split panel birthday card. Like a lot of fun fold cards it is easier than you think and was actially one of the card from my July classes. For this birthday card, I pulled out the Country Flowers bundle, some of […]

How to make a simple Bay Window Fun Fold card

Hello Today I’m sharing a couple of simple Bay Window Fun Fold card ideas with you. The first one was a project we made in class a few months ago and features the Garden Meadow stamp set and co-ordinating dies. At the time of writing this post these items come as a bundle (saving you […]

How to make an easy fun fold birthday card

Hello Today, I want to show you an easy fun fold card called a Diamond Z fold pop up. (Rolls off the tongue doesn’t it!) Both of the cards in this post were made for my nieces, who recently turned 20. (I added a few extra details to personalise them before posting them.) This fun […]

Learn how to make a cute Rocker Card

Hello I know it’s been a while but today I’m back to show you how easy it is to make a cute rocker card using the Deckled Circles Dies (162286) by Stampin’ Up! The birthday card below was one of three projects we made in my February classes and I shared the tutorial on my […]

How to use decorative masks in your cardmaking

Hello So today I want to show you how easy it is to use decorative masks in your cardmaking to achieve an fabulous background. Now the card I’m sharing is a large pop up birthday that I made for a friends “big” birthday. It’s a larger version of the pop up cards I shared before, […]

How to make simple pop up birthday cards

Hello there Today I want to show you how easy it is to make some simple pop up birthday cards. In the examples I’m sharing, there is very little stamping because I fussy cut some of the cute critters in the Zany Crew 12″ x 12″ designer series paper. That pretty patterned paper is part […]

How to make a simple easel sympathy card

Happy Sunday! Today I show you how to make a simple easel sympathy card using Stampin’ Up! products. The bundles used to create this card are Perched in A Tree from the Jul – Dec 2022 mini catalogue and Fancy Something from the January – April 2023 mini catalogue. I’m so happy that the Perched […]

How to make a Flower Pot card

Happy Sunday! Today I want to show you how to make a cute Flower Pot Card. I loved the design so much that I entered the card in the latest Global Design Project colour challenge #GDP381. The colour combination is Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather and Blushing Bride and I had a lot of fun making […]

Pop Up Box in a birthday card

Happy New Year! Today I want to show you a cute fancy fold project with a pop up box in a birthday card that can hold either a gift card or money. I made four of these cards for my nieces and nephew for Christmas but completely forgot to take any photo’s so decided to […]