Angela's PaperArts: Column 90th birthday card

One of my family members was celebrating a very special birthday - his 90th birthday.  As the colour scheme for his celebratory birthday event was black, white & gold, I decided to make his birthday card to reflect these colours too.

Here's the front of the card.

It's a dimensional side column card and features the Stampin' Up! Modern Christmas specialty patterned papers - perfect for any occasion, not just Christmas. The "90" is from the Stampin' Up! Alphabet A La Mode die set.

Here's the side of the card showing the extra dimension.

Here's an overhead view of the card. My message to the recipient was written on the back of the card. The card can be folded flat for posting too.

The design of this card is based on a tutorial by Karen Foy and you can find her tutorial for creating this style of card here.

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Angela's PaperArts: Chinese New Year card

I'd like to wish those celebrating the Lunar/Chinese New Year this week good health, wealth & happiness for the Year of the Horse.

This card was made for a friend celebrating the event. It's a 5"x7" card base size and uses a number of different products from my stash. I've kept to a Red, Gold & White colour scheme for this occasion.

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Angela's PaperArts: Aussie Floating Hexagon pop out card

I made this floating hexagon pop out card for a friend's recent birthday. 

As my friend likes the colour green, I couldn't go past having an Aussie gum leaf theme for this card.  The cardstock I used to create the card base & gum leaves is Stampin' Up!'s Very Vanilla and Tranquil Tide. The patterned paper is from Scrapbook Fantasies' Aussie Christmas collection. 

Here's a side view of the card so you can see how the front panel 'floats' above the card.

I love that this card folds flat for posting. Here's an overhead view of the card which easily stands on its own.

If you'd like to see a masculine version of this card, please click here. You'll also find a link to the tutorial there too.

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Angela's PaperArts: Pop-up Star Explosion birthday card

While Christmas is just around the corner, I'm still making cards for family & friends who are celebrating their birthday during December.

I made this pop-up star explosion card for one of my good friend's recent birthday.

The card features the retired Stampin' Up! Mediterranean Blooms papers along with the Brilliant Wings die set. It folds together like a standard gatefold card for posting and has a bellyband to keep it together.

Here's how I decorated the back of the card. I left one panel blank in order to write a message to my friend.

To create the card, I used the tutorial by Mixed Up Craft & adjusted the size to suit what I wanted. You can find the original tutorial here.

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Angela's PaperArts: Tri-panel gatefold card

I recently attended a charity card making day and one of the types of cards we made was a tri-panel gatefold card. I like this style of card and have re-created it using some of my favourite retired patterned papers, the Stampin' Up!, Joy of Christmas DSP. 

Here's the card closed and kept together with a bellyband. The gold foil sentiment is from the Greeting For You mix & match ephemera pack.

When the bellyband is removed, the card opens up to reveal the message to the recipient. If needed, you could even add a little pocket for a gift card inside too as there's plenty of space to hold a gift card or money.

While I've made this card in landscape orientation, it can also be easily flipped to be a portrait card too. The choice is yours. It does take a whole sheet of A4 cardstock to create the card base and bellyband, so it's not as economical to create as some other gatefold card styles, but I think the end result is worth it.

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Angela's PaperArts: Christmas star fun fold card

I'm running a bit late this year making Christmas cards but had to try making the popular star fun fold card.

Here's my version which also folds flat for posting in a 5"x7" envelope. 

Here's an overhead view of the card which shows the six point star formation on the left side.

Here's a side view of the card which highlights the shape of the star.

To create this card, I used the retired Stampin' Up! Poinsettia dies, Greetings for You ephemera pack and Real Red cardstock along with Traditional Christmas patterned paper pack by Scrapbook Fantasies.

You can find the tutorial I used to make this card here.

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Angela's PaperArts: Happy Place retirement card

A friend recently retired and so I made her this card.

The card base paper was from the retired Thoughtful Journey paper pack and I used the colours from that paper as inspiration to ink blend the top layer. I then stamped the Happy Retirement message from the Stampin' Up! Happy Place stamp set onto the ink blended cardstock.

A couple of diecut palm trees from my stash finished off the card.

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