Garden Meadow Fun Fold Card for the Pals Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop!

Hi, Stampers!

This month, the theme is See How My Garden Grows. We hope to inspire you with our creations today! You will find the lineup at the end of my post to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal. So, for my garden card today, I wanted to showcase the beautiful Garden Meadow bundle with the coordinating Meandering Meadows design paper (this paper is so pretty that I now have two packs!). As I have said before, this paper is too pretty to chop up, so I went with one of my favorite folds that showcases the whole piece!

View of all of the front panels

Folds Flat for Mailing!

My Secrets!

Let’s start with the card base…

• Firstly, my card base is 5 ½” x 11” cardstock, then on your scoring board, score it at 1-1/4”, 3-3/8”, 7-5/8”, and 9-3/4”.
• 4” x 5-1/4” designer series paper/cardstock for the center of the card. I also cut some vellum to the same size to soften the focal panel, which is optional.
• After that, for the front panels, I did my best to make the panels continue across the front of the card.
  • 1” x 5-1/4” designer series paper (2) for inside panels.
  • 1-7/8” x 5-1/4” designer series paper (2) for outside panels

And now, the fun part!

• OK, the card was so much fun to create – I almost just thought a sentiment would be enough! But, if you know me, more details are always more fun than the CAS ones. So, I stamped the cute wheelbarrow, flowers, and garden tools with black ink and colored them with Stampin’ Blends, choosing colors from designer paper. Then, I stamped a couple of the birds from the Waves of Inspiration stamp set to add a little more life to the card.
• Once that was done, I stamped the “happy birthday” from the Garden Meadow stamp set and cropped it out with the Happy Little Things die.

Then, on the back…

• When you have fun making a card, you don’t want the fun to end! So, I turned the card over and did the same panels on the back. Then, I added a white panel cut from the Garden Meadow die and stamped the sentiment from Encircled in Nature in Garden Green ink.
• Finally, I added the Dragonflies & Butterflies to add a little life to the scenery.

More inspiration awaits, so use the lineup below to visit the rest of the Design Team. Please mark your calendars for our next blog hop next month, when our theme will be Fun Family Occasions.

Until then, have fun in your craft space!

Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop Lineup

1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
2. Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life
3. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’
4. Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
5. Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
6. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
7. Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
8. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
9. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
10. Rae Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
11. Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja
12. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
13. Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping <<<YOU’RE HERE!>>>
14. Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
15. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stamping Habit
16. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose

I’m sharing my card with these challenges:

1. Allsorts
2. 613 Avenue Create
3. A Place To Start
4. Crafty Catz
5. Die Cut Divas
6. Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday
7. Krafty Chicks 
8. Little Red Wagon
9. NBUS (new stamp set and dies)
10. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies Challenges
11. The Paper Funday
12. A Perfect Time to Craft
13. We Love Stamping

I love hearing from you! Please leave a comment if you have any questions or comments about my project today.

If you enjoyed my project today, please be sure to…

• Firstly, visit my Gallery and Fun Fold Gallery for lots of ideas, and…
• Enter the Creative Creases Challenge HERE with any fun fold card!
• Then, complete this contact information to receive a birthday card from me!
• Also, follow me on Pinterest
• Finally, you find out what’s new with SU HERE

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• Makes 9 cards: 3 each of 3 designs with 9 coordinating envelopes
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• Coordinating colors: Lost Lagoon, Moody Mauve, Basic Beige, Basic Gray (Classic Stampin’ Spot), Basic Black, champagne foil
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My project supply list. Click products to shop my online store!

Garden Meadow Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)	Garden Meadow Bundle (English)	Encircled In Nature Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)	Waves Of Inspiration Cling Stamp Set (English)
Meandering Meadows 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper	Garden Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad
Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack	Crushed Curry Stampin’ Write Marker	Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack	Melon Mambo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack
Basic Black Stampin' Blends Combo Pack	Garden Meadow Dies	Happy Little Things Dies	Adhesive Backed Dragonflies & Birds

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