Hello, and welcome to the Creation Station November Blog Hop! This group of stampers from all over the world are sharing Fun & Fancy Folds projects to inspire you to add that little something, something to make your holiday cards extra special. Be sure and click on the "Next" link at the end of each post so you can see each designer's project. You'll be glad you did!
My projects for today's hop are Gable Fold cards. The inspiration for my projects was my late sister-in-law, Mary Ann. She was the biggest fan of my cards and had them displayed all over her apartment at her assisted living home in Overland Park, Kansas. I sent her a card at least every month--whenever I made a card and thought "Mary Ann would love this one", I sent it to her. So, needless to say, the Christmas cards had to be extra special and the Gable Fold Christmas cards were her favorites.
My candy cane card was created using the Sweetest Christmas suite of products, including the Sweet Candy stamp set and die bundle (#161052), Christmas Banner dies (#159576); Adhesive-Backed Seasonal Sequins (#159964), and the Sweetest Christmas designer series paper (#159559). I also used some Sweet Sorbet metallic woven ribbon (#159200) and a Flat Jingle Bell Trinket (#159980). The colors are from the designer series paper: Sweet Sorbet, Real Red and Garden Green, plus Evening Evergreen and Mint Macaron.
What makes these Gable Folds extra fun for the holidays is the way they open up and stand on their own for display! They fold closed to a standard card size of 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" and definitely require extra postage!
The cane card just has a bit of glitz with the metallic ribbon, but I went all out with the glimmer and shine in this holly card! For this card I used the Boughs of Holly Suite of products: the Leaves of Holly stamp set and dies bundle (#159608), and the Boughs of Holly designer series paper (#159600). I added some gold Adhesive-Backed Seasonal Sequins and Real Red glimmer paper (#159578) from the Sweetest Christmas Suite; and, some Gold & Vanilla satin edged ribbon (#159555) and Evening Evergreen Glimmer Paper (#159537) from the Lights Aglow suite. I used colors from the designer series paper: Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, and Evening Evergreen plus Old Olive and Basic White.
Hidden on the back panel of each card is a decorated piece of Basic White card stock layered over designer series paper to use for a personal note to the recipient of the card.
If you have never made a Gable Fold card, here are the basics:
Gable Card
Card base: 5-1/2” x 12”, scored at 2”, 4”, 8” and 10”
Use paper trimmer to cut from the first score line to the last score line, 1-1/2” from top and and bottom of card. Fold as shown.
Card stock layers: 2 @1-7/8” X 5-3/8”; 2 @ 2-3/8” X 1-7/8”; 4 @ 1-7/8” x 1-3/8”; 2 @ 3-7/8” X 1-3/8”; 1 @ 3-7/8” X 2-3/8”
DSP layers: 2 @ 1-3/4” X 5-1/4”; 2 @ 2-1/4” X 1-3/4”; 4 @ 1-3/4” X 1-1/4”;
2 @ 3-3/4” X 1-1/4”; 1 @ 3-3/4” x 2-1/4”
Basic White card stock for written greeting on back of last section: 1 @ 5-3/8” x 1-7/8”
I hope you'll try making a Gable Fold card soon! They are really fun and surprisingly easy to make--just a bit time consuming.
Let's go see what Fun & Fancy Fold Rachel Traudt, our newest design team member, has for us!
To Rachel's blog . . .
Have a wonderful November!
--Sara Nell
