Hi Stampers. One of my most popular pins was a Christmas card done with the Twist & Pop fun fold. Today’s card uses that fold to make a birthday card using the Counting Sheep stamp set & Sheep Dies. Both of these are level one items in the mid year Sale-a-bration brochure
Isn’t this Twist & Pop fun fold fun?!?!
The card base is 4-1/4″ x 11″, scored at 5-1/2″. The outside and inside layers are all three the same – a layer Daffodil Delight 4″ x 5-1/4″ followed by a layer of 3-3/4″ x 5″ Basic White CS. Using Balmy Blue, Soft Suede and Garden Green ink and the Blending Brushes, I added color to the Basic White layer for the outside of the card.
Using the Counting Sheep stamp set, I stamped the sentiment and the sheep in Basic Gray ink and then colored the sheep with the Stampin’ Blends. Next, that sheep, the fence (Soft Suede CS) and sun (Daffodil Delight CS) were die cut using the Sheep Dies. The fence was adhered with Mini Glue Dots, while the sheep and sun are adhered using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
This mechanism in the middle is the only hard part of the entire card and it’s not really that hard – you can follow along with the video pretty easily. The mechanism is made of two pieces of Pacific Point CS – 10″ x 2-1/2″, scored at 2-1/2″, 5″ & 7-1/2″ and 8″ x 2-1/2″, scored down the long way at 1-1/4″.
The panels across the middle each have a 2-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ layer of Daffodil Delight CS followed by a 2″ x 2″ layer of Basic White that has the stamping on them.
You can see here how the sheep on the right has had the color lifted used on it to lighten the colors. At the time of these photos, I still need to go back and do that to the other sheep.
This close up here shows the light Pool Party Stampin’ Blend that has been added around the outside edge as an accent. Once the color lifter gets used here, this will be much more subtle. THIS is why you need a color lifter.
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Very cute card!
LOVE THE CARD. i HAVE A DIE THAT MAKES THE Mechanism but this is so much easier. I’m going to try it.
Hi Lisa I love your card but no way can I get the inside right I got the front but in back hangs over or I get a scored line in the front on the piece that hangs down on my mountain side and. The back is very messy and won’t go flat it must be something I am doing wrong. Can you show me or tell me do the score lines go to the inside on the back? I will practise more. I thought maybe my centre for my x wasn’t centred so I made a new one but still the same thing happens thanks for your help
Hi Carolyn, I sent you an email last week, but I have not heard back from you. I’d love to connect with you over zoom so we can get this to work for you.
Hi there thanks so much I have been trying and almost there but no way I am home tomorrow am if we can do that would be wonderful no caps in my email ok. Thanks so much not sure how much time difference we are but I am eastern Ca nada ok
I tried emailing again. If you don’t get it. Please email me. There is a link on the side bar on the right.