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New Nature’s Symphony top fold card with free project sheet & video tutorial

I hope you had a very Merry Christmas last week. We sure did but we missed our youngest son & his wife. They were hit with the flu the day they were going to drive up here. It wasn’t the same without them! But we still had our Appetizer Showdown competition and played lots of games including our annual Minute to Win It games. Always lots of laughs! I highly recommend doing these with family or friends. It’s one of our highlights of the time we spend together.

I shared this easy fun fold card on last week’s Live video. It features new product from the upcoming 2026 Spring catalog.

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I featured the Nature’s Symphony bundle and the new Nature’s Walk DSP. I cannot share links to these products because they’re not available for customers quite yet. Tomorrow on my week’s Live video I’ll share all of my new products from both the Spring catalog and the newest Online products – both coming out in early January. Join me here.

My colors include Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon and Old Olive with White. Besides the Nature’s Symphony bundle I added a die-cut for the greeting from the Textured Notes dies seen here.

This card is an easy fun fold layout. The back is simply 4 1/4″ X 5 1/2″ and the center is a full 3 1/4″ X 11″ scored at 5 1/2″. It gives you a large area to add your patterned paper on the front. I made many of these cards for a long distance swap I joined in.

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I created a free project sheet for this card Click here to download or print it. There’s also a video tutorial below as well.

The Nature’s Walk designer paper is filled with textured patterns. I love the colors in it; the blues & greens are just my style.

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Here’s the video tutorial for you. I also share another pretty card idea featuring this beautiful bundle.

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• Artist of the Month with Sending Smiles; fun fold card & tags box

  June 24, 2022

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  Today I'm sharing the rest of Marilyn's projects featuring the Sending Smiles bundle.  See the first set here. 

  This cute card is a Dutch door fold where the front panel is attached to the lower 'door' opening. 

  
  
  
  
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  She used the new Sweet Sorbet & Parakeet Party In Colors here. 

  Her measurements are as follows:

  • Sweet Sorbet – 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" plus a 8 1/2" X 2 3/4" scored at 4 1/4".  The front panel is 2 3/4" X 4 1/8"
  • White front is a stitched rectangle at 2 5/8" X 4" & inside is 4" X 5 1/4"
  • In Color DSP is2 5/8" X 4" 

  Next is an adorable box made with the Tailored Tag dies.  

  
  
  
  
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  She used 2 of the Tailored Tag die-cuts and adhered them to the little box she made with the template seen below. 

  Details: 

  • The tags are approximately 1 3/4" X 3 3/4" and the box is1 1/2" square. 
  • She used the Sending dies for the flower & greeting. 
  • The DSP is the 2022-24 In Color 6 X 6" pack and the ribbon is the Tahitian Tide 1/8" ribbon.  

  To make this box start out with a 4" square of card stock and score at 1 1/4" on all sides.  

  
  
  
  
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  And below are all of her projects using the Sending Smiles bundle.  She sure did a fabulous job!!  

  
  
  
  
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• Artist of the Month Sending Smiles cards!

  June 23, 2022

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  Each month my Flowerbug's Team has a featured 'Artist of the Month'.  For June, Marilyn chose to use the Sending Smiles bundle seen here.  

  She made 5 projects and I'm showing the first three here: 

  
  
  
  
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  Her card base is Orchid Oasis and the flowers are stamped in Orchid, Polished Pink, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive.  The flower centers and leaves are separate images so it's easy to have multiple colors on your flowers.  

  She layered the two 'Sending' dies using our awesome Adhesive Sheets; no glue mess!  The Birthday Wishes greeting is heat embossed and die-cut with one of the long dies in the bundle.  The background texture is the Quatrefoil embossing folder seen here.  

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  Next is a simple card with just a few layers using Fresh Freesia and Parakeet Party.  

  
  
  
  
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  I love the stamped background she did using Versamark.  The White layer is textured with the Painted Texture folder.  The Brass Butterflies are the perfect finishing touch!  

  Her measurements are 2 7/8" X 3 7/8" for the White and 3" X 4" for the Parakeet Party. 

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  Next is a fun fold card featuring the new hostess paper pack called Design a Daydream.  Anyone can get this with hostess benefits if the order is over $150. 

  
  
  
  
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  Here's a tip on making this diagonal fun fold card.  Cut your card base at 4 1/4" X 11" and score it at 5 1/2".  Now with your card base laying flat and horizontally, cut off the upper left half of this card base on a diagonal.  You'll add the layers of card stock and DSP to that but flip it before adhering it to the main card.  

  She used the Layering Circles dies for her greeting.  I love that you can personalize your greetings with so many options.  This was one of my top 3 sets in the new Annual Catalog.  In fact it was one of the ideas I shared with Stampin' Up! for my Million Dollar stamp set!  

  
  
  
  
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  There are 22 stamps in the set and 14 dies!  

  
  
  
  
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• How to make a forest of trees from the Wisteria Wishes stamp set!

  June 22, 2022

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  I thought the flower image in the Wisteria Wishes stamp set would make wonderful trees. So I played around and here's the finished card: 

  
  
  
  
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  I chose to use just one ink color of Evening Evergreen. I made this card in the video below; or click here to see it. 

  Tips on creating the trees:

  • Starting at the bottom with the 3 flower image (turned point side up) stamp in full strength Evening Evergreen ink making sure you stamp some images higher and some lower.  Ink every time filling in the very bottom fully.
  • Now ink the same image and stamp off once before stamping slightly higher than the first 'trees'.  
  • Now ink the image again and stamp off twice before stamping even higher making sure you alter the height now & then.  
  • Wallah; you've created a forest of trees!  

  Did you know that Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent are a perfect color combination?  Stamping off once or twice can give you almost an exact Soft Succulent color tone.  

  
  
  
  
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  You could make a bunch of these cards quickly and they're perfect for any occasion but to me they'd be great sympathy or men's cards. 

  Here are the other two cards I made with this bundle.  It was super fun to play with! 

  
  
  
  
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