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Share What You Love Simple Z-Fold card


Welcome to this month's Stampers Showcase Blog hop featuring FUN & FANCY FOLD themed projects, this is going to be such a fun hop! 

I do love a fun fold, it's a great way to add a WOW factor to your cards, I've created a simple Z-Fold card, and it shows of the gorgeous (retiring) Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper.


My card is a metric take of the 6" x 6" card, I adjusted the measurements to fit a standard A4 cardstock by starting halving the width of the full sheet and going from there. Once I had the base elements, I layered each panel with a piece of DSP, here's a view of the fold from above.


The Specialty DSP brought the card to life with a little shimmer here and there. For the focal point of the card front I used the Love What You Do stamp set (carrying over, yay), embossing the sentiment with clear embossing powder to give it a little shine. The new Stitched Nested Labels were perfect for a contrasting shape to the floral paper, with a Pearlised Doily and Shimmer paint on the flowers for a touch a bling. 


The nested label die cuts on the front are slightly bigger than the writing panel inside, this is so when the card is closed the inner panel is completely hidden. I used 3 of the nested dies, the largest 2 for the front, then used the same smaller die to cut the larger layer for the back and the next size down for the Whisper White writing panel.

 Next on the hop is amazing Amy Koenders form America, you are probably familiar with her blog, Stamp with Amy K; click on the icon to be taken to her blog and see her fabulous project. 

on to AmyK

Measurements for Simple Z-Fold card as above:

  • 1 piece of 29.7 cm x  14.8 cm cardstock, score along the long side at 7.4 cm then flip your cardstock over still along the long side and score at 14.8 cm - by flipping the cardstock this will help prevent any cracking
  • 1 piece of 29.7 cm x 5cm cardstock for your strip along the bottom, score along the long side the same as above.
  • 1 piece of 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm Designer Series Paper to decorate the main inside of your card.
  • 2 pieces of 7.1 cm x 14.5 cm Designer Series Paper to decorate the front two folds of the card.
  • 1 piece of 14.5 x 4.7 cm & 2 pieces 7.1 cm x 4.7 cm of Designer Series Paper to decorate your strip.

This is the basic design of the card, additional card stock is required for the focal point and writing panel, this will vary dependant on the nesting dies used.


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Stamp sets & Framelits: Love What You Do Stamp Set, Stitched Nested Labels
Ink: Memento Black, VersaMark


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  1. Jessica Brigden27 May 2019 at 21:41

    Beautiful! I love the shimmer floral paper you used.

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  2. stampwithamyk27 May 2019 at 22:13

    Stunning! I love the designer paper that you used and your card layout is perfect! :)

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  3. Janice LaRoche27 May 2019 at 22:28

    Very pretty, love it

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  4. Stephanie Nash28 May 2019 at 00:30

    Lovely! I love the simplicity of the stamped image in contract to the DSP. Great work

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  5. Wendy Lee28 May 2019 at 06:10

    So lovely Sue. This DSP is gorgeous.

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  6. Leonie Stuart 28 May 2019 at 19:18

    Beautiful Sue! I love this DSP and have struggled to use it as it is too pretty. Stunning card 😍

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  7. BERNATH28 May 2019 at 20:03

    EXTRA

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  8. Mo Rootes29 May 2019 at 04:27

    Such a pretty card Sue, loved what you did with the new nested days, so effective

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  9. Kate Bolt31 May 2019 at 06:15

    Gorgeous card Sue, I live how you have used the new nested dies too.

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  10. deb naylor4 June 2019 at 05:03

    Wow that is very pretty. Love that DSP too!

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