Two great Fun-fold card swaps today

August 21, 2025

Today I’m sharing two more of my Flowerbug Team swaps and both are fun fold layouts. Our theme was Monochromatic cards and these cards include similar colors.

First is Kim’s card featuring the Peace on Earth bundle that’s coming in the new 2025 Holiday catalog in September; just a few weeks away! The long leaves die-cut is from the Memorable Blooms dies but is now retired.

Her colors include Cloud Cover with Pretty Peacock & White. For the large oval die-cuts she used the Impressions Abloom dies seen here. The Damask Designs embossing folder was used on the Cloud Cover 2-toned card stock panel.

Measurements:

card base 11″ X 4 1/4″ score at 2 3/4″ & 5 1/2″
2-toned CS textured panel 2 1/2″ X 4″
Peacock inside 5 1/4″ X 4″

Here’s how her card opens: These doves in this upcoming bundle are so pretty. Perfect for sympathy, wedding or other events.

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Next is a cute card made by Candy featuring the Jar of Joy stamp set seen here. It coordinates with the Sweet Jar punch seen here.

Her colors include Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon, Pool Party & White. Embossing folders are So Swirly & Damask Designs. Dies are Nested Essentials and Textured Notes.

It’s a neat fun fold card that opens up from each side:

She’s calling it a ‘Buckle Fold card’. Here are her measurements:

Peacock card base 6 1/2″ X 5 1/2″ score at 2 1/4″, latch strip is 5 1/4″ X 2″ score at 2 3/4″
Pool Party 2″ X 5 1/4″
Lost Lagoon die-cut 2 3/8″ X 3″
White inside 4″ X 5 1/4″, Textured Notes greeting die-cut

Tomorrow I’ll share the last of our Monochromatic swaps!

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Awesome fundraiser last weekend!

December 19, 2022

Last Saturday we held a big fundraiser for two of my favorite local charitable organizations here in Minot, ND. It was an amazing success because of the many donations & volunteers.

I kept feeling a nudge to do this and I knew my friends & community would join in. I was thrilled with the many people that helped pull it off.

We raised over $3400 in sales towards these charitable organizations. Woo hoo!

We focused on baked and craft items at our sale hoping to help people with their Holiday baking & gift giving. A local church offered us their Parish Hall to hold it. Here are some pictures of our goods.

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We had an amazing group of donations. We were asked by many if we would do it again next year; and I sure hope we can!

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Here's a little information on these two organizations:

Hairball Haven is a local feline rescue that takes in homeless kittens and cats, provide veterinary care, immunizations, spays or neuters and houses them until they find new, loving homes. They currently have over 100 in house & in foster homes. An average vet bill is $20,000. They're amazing and I'm so happy to help support them. My granddaughter Eliza loves to volunteer there when she's in town. Here's a link to their FB page and donation link.

Matthew 25 Project is the other wonderful organization we donated to. They are a nonprofit that seeks to match gifts of clothing and household items with those in need in our community at no cost. My friend Melissa started this in Minot and 1000's of people have benefited from their generousity. It's run by volunteers but they do have rent, gas and heat bills. Here's a link to their FB page.

I love this time of year when everyone feels the need to give to others.

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Kindest Gnomes ‘Fancy Feet’ card; so cool!

December 16, 2022

We made this FUN Gnomes card at my December card clubs. I also shared it on my Tuesday FB Live here.

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You might ask, why is it fun? Well the gnomes feet wiggle. I call them 'fancy feet'. It features the Kindest Gnomes bundle. Unfortunately the stamp set has sold out. The dies are carrying over into January because we are getting a NEW Gnome stamp set in the Spring catalog. It will coordinate with the current Gnomes dies. See the dies here.

Here's what the inside of the card looks like. I used the Joyful Flurry stamp set. I like that this stamp set has greetings for winter or New Years.

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Below is the back of the assembled gnome and shows how the swinging feet work. The 'nose' is cut from a small rectangle of Blushing Bride and that oval is how you 'hang' the feet so they swing. It's not adhered at all. This entire piece is adhered to the Designer Paper layer; it's adhered with just two Dimensionals.

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Isn't it fun! I hope you watch the video to see how easy this is to make. Even if you don't have the gnomes set I'm sure you could make something else 'swing' like a greeting or other critters.

This card is included in one of my December card kits to go featuring the Storybook Gnomes designer paper. This kit has sold out now; but you can see others in my shop here.

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Here's the video; click on the image below to watch it.

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I don't think I shared these cards yet; they're made with the pretty Framed Florets bundle seen here. It's part of the Fitting Florets collection. The bundle will return in the Spring catalog in January.

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It is currently available along with the pretty Fitting Florets designer paper. This paper is available while supplies last or through January 4th.

For the card below I stamped the floral and leaf images in Black Memento ink and colored them in with Blends markers. The colors are Fresh Freesia with Granny Apple Green.

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The sentiment on the Black oval is heat embossed with White embossing powder. I love the striking look of white on black!

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- The embossing folder is the Whimsical Woodland 3D seen here; it's on sale for $4 while supplies last.
- The Cherry Cobbler frame die-cut is cut from the Festive Foils specialty paper seen here; it's also discounted from $10 to $4, while supplies last.
- Colors include Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent, White & Cherry Cobbler.
- I colored the White crinkled ribbon with a Cherry Cobbler Blends marker. I love using Blends markers to color my ribbons!
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