60th Birthday Blog Hop #5 – Fancy Folds

Hello and welcome to the fifth Blog Hop (and INSTA Hop) to celebrate my 60th Birthday in 2022. There are 6 hops in total, with 6 different themes over 6 months leading up to the big day! We’re on the home stretch now.

I gathered a few Stamping friends to ‘virtually’ celebrate this upcoming milestone ‘event’ and for tonight’s hop we are looking at FANCY FOLDS! If you know me, you’ll know I love to make 3D cards which is synonymous with fancy folds. It’s actually a real challenge for me to make a ‘flat’ card. 😁

Tonight’s birthday hop called for something a bit special and this is my take on a Hexagonal Base Pop-Up Card that the talented, Jay Soriano made popular a few years back with his version made from the Window Box Dies. I tweaked Jay’s design and made quite a few cards with those dies ‘back in the day’ and was sad to see them ‘retire’.

When I saw the Beautiful Shapes Dies in the Annual Catalogue, I just knew I had to try and work out how to create a mini version of a Hexagonal Base Pop-Up Card using the hexagon dies in the set. It didn’t take long to make a prototype of the card base as I’d been mulling around with the idea in my head for quite some time.

A ‘new take’ on an ‘old’ design called for some new products to showcase the versatility of this fancy fold. My most recent purchase was the Texture Chic Suite Collection; I’d seen so many gorgeous cards made with it and as a result it rapidly climbed to the top of my wish list and then just like that, it arrived at my doorstep in a big brown box.

I made a Petal Pink version for my first card with the beautiful sea shell Chic Dies, Texture Chic DSP, Distressed Gold Specialty DSP and the open leaves were die-cut from shades of green in the DSP for the ‘seaweed’.

I enjoyed the creative process so much that I had to make another one using Pool Party Cardstock for this floral version.

Oh my! I love this suite of products so… much. Maybe I need to do an Autumn and Winter version of a Hexagonal Base Pop-Up Card to complete all four ‘Seasons of Chic’.

Some adhesive backed Opal Rounds were added to the flower centres for some dimension and sparkle and one was added as a ‘pearl’ to the scallop shell in the first card.

As you can see from the photos, there’s room on the back to write a greeting and each card folds flat to easily fit inside a C6 (Medium) size envelope.

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Up next on the Blog Hop is my lovely friend from the other side of the globe, Heidi Weaver –

Texture Chic Hexagonal Base Pop-Up Card Tutorial

Blog Hop Participants –

Bronwyn Eastley – (that’s me) https://addinktivedesigns.com/2022/08/03/60th-birthday-blog-hop-5-fancy-folds/

Heidi Weaver – https://heidistampinalong.blogspot.com/2022/08/60th-birthday-blog-hop-5-fancy-folds.html

Tina Gillespie – https://scissorspapercard.blogspot.com/2022/08/brons-birthday-blog-hop-august.html

Jan Clothier – https://www.thinkingstamping.co.nz/2022/08/bronsbash5.html

Lou Kitzelman – https://withabowontopbylou.blogspot.com/2022/08/brons-birthday-blog-hop-and-colour-inkspiration-126-fancy-folds.html

Julia Quinn – https://handmadebyjuliaquinn.blogspot.com/2022/08/brons-60th-birthday-hop-with-fancy-folds.html

Nikki Spencer – https://nikkispencer-mysandbox.blogspot.com/2022/08/brons-60th-birthday-blog-hop-5fancy.html

Catherine Proctor – https://whatcathymade.com.au/?p=9999

Andrea Sargent – https://valleyinspiration.blogspot.com/2022/08/brons-birthday-blog-hop-5.html

Kathryn Mangelsdorf – https://klm55.blogspot.com/2022/08/brons-birthday-blog-hop-5-fancy-folds.html

Chantell Randall – https://inkeverywhere.wordpress.com/?p=5005

Leonie Stuart – https://www.stampinginspirationbyleonie.com/2022/08/brons-bday-blog-and-insta-hop-5-fancy.html

Vicki Boucher – https://vickiboucher.blogspot.com/2022/08/brons-bday-blog-hop-fancy-fold.html

Sharni Haines – https://www.sharnihaines.com/post/bron-s-b-day-blog-and-insta-hop-5-fancy-folds-august-2022

Vy Tran – https://www.craftingdailydose.com/post/brons-birthday-blog

INSTA Participants –

 

 Main Product List

Texture Chic Suite Collection (English) [158819] $136.50

Beautiful Shapes Dies [158046] $51.00

Full product list in Tutorial

 

Thanks so much for hopping by,