Happy Sunday to you! Glad you stopped by today. I have a really interesting fun fold card idea for you today. Hope you get inspired! Have you seen this idea? I think these types of cards are fabulous and I needed to give it a try.
For my card, I started with a card base cut at 5 1/2" x 7". This was scored at 1", 2", 3", and 4". When you fold along the score lines, you get a square tube with a 'wing' on one side. Looks kind of weird at this point, but don't give up. Next cut 3 more 'wings' at 3" x 5 1/2". For the card base and 3 wings, I used Mossy Meadow cardstock. Attach each of the 'wings' to a flat side of the tube. I used Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue to make sure they really stayed there! At this time, you have your pinwheel tower and it's time to make it into a card.
I cut 4 layers of Old Olive cardstock to 2 3/4" x 5 1/4". These would end up layered onto the 'wings'.
After that 2 Very Vanilla layers were cut a 2 1/2" x 5". These panels were stamped with the Quiet Meadow stamps. The front panel uses a collage type of stamping for a background. I started with the 'sketchy' word background stamped with Pear Pizzazz ink that was off-stamped. I added some speckles with the stamp using Crumb Cake ink also off-stamped. Then the wild flower and the sentiment were stamped with Mossy Meadow ink. Also used a Mossy Meadow marker to add some speckles to this. A piece of Gold Fine Art ribbon was wrapped around this and tied in a knot in front. Three pretty faceted glitter gems were attached to finish the front. This was then attached to the Old Olive panel that was attached to the first 'wing'.
The back side of this tower card was finished similarly to the front, but not exactly. Instead, the wild flower was stamped with Crumb Cake ink that was off-stamped to give a pretty soft image behind the sentiment. I didn't do all the collage-type stamping on the background either. I kept it much plainer with just some speckling with Mossy Meadow and Crumb Cake markers. The sentiment is also from the Quiet Meadow stamp set. It was stamped in Mossy Meadow ink. This was attached to an Old Olive layer using adhesive, then attached to the opposite side panel from the front.
There were still 2 of the Old Olive panels left. To finish these off, I cut 2 pieces from the retired Dandy Garden 6x6 retired DSP. These were both die-cut with the coordinating Meadow dies. The 2 negative pieces were attached to the Old Olive panels and attached to the tower 'wings that were empty. Hang onto those die-cut pieces though!
Then 4 side layers were cut to 1 1/2" x 5 1/4" from Old Olive cardstock. Only two of these were embossed using the Brick & Mortar 3D embossing folder. After embossing, I carefully added a little bit of Whisper White Craft Ink to the raised bricks using my finger to make the bricks stand out more. These both were attached to the left side of the stamped panels using adhesive.
Ok, with the leftover 2 side panels, attach the die-cut wildflower you already made to them with Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue. Then attach these to the left side of the matching negative panels you already attached.
Whew! That's it. I hope you could follow my instructions and pictures to make your own pinwheel tower card. I got my dimensions from... fortheloveofstamping.blogspot.com. There are many places on the internet to find these cards and get instructions. In fact, I've been looking around and want to try another one of these with different dimensions so the card will fit into a regular A2 envelope. The card I just shared with you does not. It needs a 6x9 envelope or one you specifically make to fit this card. So, I'm back to the drawing board on this idea. But it was fun and challenging to try, and I'm tickled with myself that I actually figured this out. Any 3D items are not my forte' at all!!!
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Happy stamping and creating my friends!
That is a very cool card
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