A Pinwheel Box Card for the first Funky Folds Blog Hop

Welcome to the first Funky Folds Blog Hop.

We are a group of like minded paper crafters who love to make cards with funky folds. Funky actually means “modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way”… so we are featuring cards that are not your usual rectangle/square portrait or landscape style. Think ‘easel’, ‘pop-up’, ‘gatefold’, ‘z-fold’, ‘shaped’ or 3D cards etc. The list is endless.

All Blog Hops have an ‘anything goes’ theme using any type of ‘funky’ card fold and I’ve made a Pinwheel Box Card featuring the cute stamp set, Taco Fiesta (SU).

Punched balloons were added to the box section of the card making sure they didn’t extend beyond the height of a standard card size envelope. Each page displays various little characters from the stamp set which have been coloured with Stampin’ Blends.

In keeping with the theme of the stamp set I chose to use the colours of the Mexican Flag, red (Real Red), white (Basic White) and green (Shaded Spruce) for my card.

The ‘wings’ of the pinwheel were die-cut from the curved, rectangular dies from Nested Essentials.

This card is based on the Perennial Lavender Pinwheel Box Card that I recently designed –

Up next is Cindy Mitchell-Clark from Texas and I’m keen to see what she has made for our very first Funky Folds Blog Hop –

If you love to make cards with creative folds and would like to join in with our monthly Funky Folds Blog Hop, you are welcome to join up through our community group on Facebook – facebook.com/groups/funkyfoldsbloghops

‘Perennial Lavender’ Pinwheel Box Card Tutorial

Thanks so much for hopping by,