I’m pretty famous for my fancy fold cards. <— That’s a joke if you couldn’t hear the sarcasm in my voice when I wrote it. While I mostly design card fronts to share with you, I do love to experiment with fancy folds every once in a while. The simple card I am sharing today leans heavily on a brilliant fancy fold and a gorgeous Designer Series Paper to yield a big impact. Here’s the card I’m happy to share with you today:
The Night of Navy card base is a standard book fold, measuring 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ (scored at 4-1/4″). I cropped a square out of the front of the card with the Stylish Shapes Dies and added some gorgeous flowers from the Serene Love Designer Series Paper. If you are creating along, don’t toss that cropped out square – because is shows up inside the card! Here’s a look at how the card opens:
Inside the Night of Navy card base, I added a piece of Basic White cardstock, measuring 5-1/5″ x 5-1/4″ that I scored at 4-1/8″ and 2-1/16″. The z-fold panel opens to the right when the card is opened. How fun is that?! Inside the card, I added a floral panel from the Serene Love Designer Series Paper to the panel and positioned the Night of Navy square that was cropped from the front. I added a design of stripes from the Serene Love Designer Series Paper and another flower for additional pizzazz.
Here’s how the card further opens from there to reveal the sentiment from the Mixed Labels stamp set:
The design of this fold makes this card really fun to make and for the recipient to open, but the Designer Series Paper makes the card beautiful. The Serene Love Designer Series Paper (featuring designs in Night of Navy, Old Olive and Lost Lagoon) is currently on sale in the Last Chance Items for 30% off (just $8.75). Here’s a look at the colors and designs in this pack of papers:
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Stamps: Mixed Labels Papers: Serene Love Designer Series Paper, Night of Navy, Basic White Inks: Night of Navy Accessories: Stylish Shapes Dies, Opal Rounds Assortment (Night of Navy), Paper Snips Scissors, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Do you love it?! I hope you’ll grab some of your supplies (even if you don’t have these) and make a card with this fun layout. I hope you have fun with it!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Brian
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Big surprise when opened all the way! Very very nice!
Thank you so much, Barbara. It is definitely a fun card to unwrap. ♥
WOW Brian, you outdid it with this fancy fold card! Love everything about it! It’s gorgeous!
Thank you so much, Alaine! I loved this paper when it was a black-and-white pattern, but I love it in Night of Navy, too!
Love this card. I like the cut-out surprise!
Have a blessed day.
Thanks so much, my friend! ♥ Had fun with this one.
Beautiful card Brian! That’s a great fun fold !
I have that DSP so I am always looking for ideas! Thanks for sharing your wonderful creations!
Thanks so much, Dawn! There are SO MANY ways to make this fold work – I just love it with this gorgeous paper. Always happy to share! ♥
Wow! You have become the fold master. Beautiful!
Ha! I’d like to think you are right, but we both know better. ♥
What a beautiful fun-fold card! Just think how far you have come in mastering fun-fold designs – from cutting 1″ off the side to this magnificent design!! Way to go! Enjoy your day!
Hey! I still think that 1″ off the side trick can’t be beat! 🙂 Thanks, Hilda!
That is a great fun fold card. Wonderful surprise when opened out. I will be trying this one today. Thanks for the inspirtion.
I hope you do! It’s a great fold that can be fun or classy. Have fun!
And here I thought this was your new genre…..(with all your spare time.) I did make your hinge card, btw, and it was gorgeous!
Yay! That makes me so happy, Cindie! ♥
Who knew you were such an architect?!? Gorgeous card!
Awww….thanks, Linda! This is a “Linda” kind of card, I’d say.
Brian, I love the card. Can see myself making one or 2 or 3.
Thanks, Bonnie! I bet you won’t stop at 3. SO MANY great ways to showcase this fold.
Gorgeous!
You do nothing by half, do you, Mr. “I’m not known for my Fun-Fold cards”? I think you just obliterated that idea! What an original and stunning design. Flawless…♥️
🙂 Thanks so much, Linda! You are SO good to me, and I appreciate that.