SPRINGTIME GREETINGS

The calendar tells us that spring has arrived, although the weather here in central Wisconsin says otherwise.

The cute bunny on this gatefold card sends you his greetings.

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock

Pale pink cardstock

Yellow cardstock

Bunny stamp 

Daffodil stamp

Sentiment stamp

Black ink

Yellow ink

Pink Stampin' Blend

Big Shot

Oval dies

Basket Weave embossing folder

Pink/White baker's twine

Dimensionals

Small glue dots

Pink pearls

INSTRUCTIONS:

Cut a piece of white cardstock measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". With a scoring tool, score the paper at 2 1/8". Flip it completely around and score again at 2 1/8".You should have a perfect gatefold card.

Use a basket weave embossing folder to emboss two pieces of yellow cardstock that measure 1 7/8" x 5 1/4". Add these two embossed pieces to each of the gatefolds.

On white cardstock, stamp the bunny. Use an oval die to cut the bunny out. All around the stamped bunny, in yellow ink, stamp the daffodil tops, extending beyond the edges of the oval.

From light pink carstock, cut an embossed oval. Cut another oval that is about equal in size to the pink oval you just cut from white cardstock. Adhere this to the back of the pink oval. The reason I have you do this is that when you open the gatefold, the back of the oval that shows will look neat. It is not a perfect match, but do the best you can.

With Dimensionals, add the bunny oval to the center of the pink oval.

With a small piece of pink and white baker's twine, tie a small bow. Adhere it to the bunny's neck with a small glue dot.

Adding adhesive to only the left side of the bunny piece, attach it to the left side gatefold.

On white cardstock, stamp the greeting you have chosen. Die cut it with a label die.

Add pale pink pearls to the sentiment piece.

Adding adhesive only to the right side of the label, attach it to the right gatefold.

Spring-y

Smiles.

SENDING HUGS TOO

I dearly love a card that opens in another way than the traditional. This one, while opening sort of the original way, but not really, is a fun variation.

Read on for a tutorial so you can find out what's a little different in this catchy card.

SUPPLIES:

Burgundy cardstock

Creamy cardstock

Coordinating patterned paper

Burgundy ink

Sentiment of choice

Big Shot

Hexagon die

Decorative piece die

Gems

DIRECTIONS:

Fold a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of burgundy cardstock in half, creasing it well with a bone folder. Score the front half at  1 1/2" and fold that back against the rest of that flap. Glue it down to become part of the front of the card.

Cut two 1" x 5 1/4" strips of coordinating patterned paper.. Glue one of the strips to the inside flap of the card so the borders are the same at the right side, the top and the bottom. Glue the second strip to the flap that you just glued down, keeping the same margins.

You're almost there already!

Stamp in in a coordinating ink a sentiment. Die cut this with an appropriately sized die. I used cream cardstock because it coordinated with my patterned paper. 

Die cut a frilly decorative piece that fits well behind the sentiment label. Glue this to the back of the sentiment piece.

Add bling above and below the sentiment.

Use Dimensionals to add this to the left flap about an inch from the bottom of the card.

Fun

Smiles.