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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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• Adorable Card swaps featuring the Otterly Amazing suite

  December 19, 2024

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  Today I'm sharing swaps that feature the adorable Otterly Amazing suite from our recent release of Online Exclusives.  

  First is a card made by Kelly Acheson.

  
  
  
  
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  The placement of her DSP is unique and leaves room for the cute swimming fish at the bottom.  She used the coordinating stamp & dies for her otter, coloring it with Blends markers.  Her colors include Crumb Cake and Early Espresso. 

  Next is a fun fold card by Tracy Jacobs.

  
  
  
  
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  She made a cut on her card base and adhered the right side down which allowed the left side to open.  Her colors include Gray Granite with White.

  Measurements – card base 4 1/4" X 11" score at 5 1/2". At the bottom right cut to the score line at the 1" mark.  the DSP and inside White layer are 3" X 5 1/4".  The punch is the Modern Oval punch from the Annual Catalog. 

  
  
  
  
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  Lastly we have a sweet card made by Julie Davison. 

  
  
  
  
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  Her colors include Old Olive, Early Espresso, Balmy Blue & Calypso Coral. She cut the otter from the Otterly Amazing DSP seen here.  Her circle punches and angled DSP add a bit of playfulness that matches up with the jumping otter. 

  See this suite here online. 

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• Cute swaps with the Perfect Pairs

  December 18, 2024

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  Today I'm sharing a few card swaps made by gals in a long distance swap. 

  First is a card made by Selene Kempton. She is someone I've recently become friends with and I cannot say enough about her huge heart and fun personality. 

  
  
  
  
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  I love her color choices of Petal Pink with Crumb Cake, White & Early Espresso.  Cute layout too!  Her cards are often among my favorites.  The textured background is made with the Dashing Designs embossing folder seen here. 

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  This next cute card was made by Kay Cogbill. 

  
  
  
  
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  She used the Marbled Elegance specialty DSP for the background and as a layer under her main image. 

  You can find this adorable Perfect Pairs stamp set here.  It's in our online exclusives but that just means it's not seen in any printed catalog. Anyone can order these items! 

  
  
  
  
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  Here's another sample seen online in the SU store. Did you know that when you're looking at our product you can find multiple ideas from their samples? 

  
  
  
  
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  I'll share more card swaps tomorrow. 

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• Stunning Marbled Elegance swap cards

  December 17, 2024

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  Today I'm sharing some card swaps I received from a mail out swap I participated in.   These cards all feature the Marbled Elegance suite seen online here.  

  First up is a pretty card made by my friend Kelly Acheson: 

  
  
  
  
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  She added a bunch of gold elements plus a fussy cut 'xoxo' greeting. She heat embossed the greeting, used Gold Foil for her die-cut heart and DSP layer plus the new Twisted Gold thread and Gold Adhesive-backed Hearts. Whew!  

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  This next card was created by another sweet friend from Minnesota, Kay Kalthoff.  

  
  
  
  
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  She used the Classic Wedding bundle seen here.  So cute!  Love the car with the 'just married' banner added to the back.  

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  Next is a beautiful card made by another Minnesota friend; Sandy Carlson.  

  
  
  
  
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  Her colors are Melon Mambo with Gold & white. She used two of the heart dies in the bundle plus textured the White square die-cut with the So Swirly embossing folder.  I love banners and adding that 2" banner on the left adds a good amount of this Marbled Elegance DSP without overpowering the card.  

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  Lastly we have a gorgeous card made by my friend Ruth Bingle from Arkansas. We love to hang out together on our SU trips. She's a doll!

  
  
  
  
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  Her card has a center flap opening.  I didn't get a photo of the inside though.  She used the Metal plate folder for her embossed strips on the side.  Isn't that gold textured heart die-cut gorgeous!?

  I'll share more card swaps tomorrow. 

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