Going Places Mini Scrapbook Album

Another of the projects from All Day Crafting event last weekend... a 6" flip flap fold mini album using the Going Places paper stack... 

And a few shots of some of the inside pages...

Back with more on this another day... Must dash... 6 Stampin' Up! events in 10 days has somewhat made its mark!!! And breath... 

Square Pop Up Z Fold Card Tutorial and Going Places Round Up

So here is the group shot to round up my Going Places Cards for the Men series... 

Having searched around to find the originator of this clever card format... whom I believe to be Frenchie (France Martin) with this card and tutorial (including a video) here back in February... I now realise that there are a few names already attributed and lots of tutorials for the A6(ish) version on the web... so I will quickly disinherit my Swing Arm card name I made up... as I think the following are better card names ....  Z Fold Pop Up Card, Floating Strip Z Fold Card, Double Z Fold Card, Floating Strip Card being the 4 names I found already out there....

But here is the how to quickly produce a square version of the card with the pop out (or floating or swing or pop up) arm the same colour as the main card blank... 

1. Grab a piece of A4 card (or trim down to 17.8cm x A4 L)

2. LANDSCAPE. Score at 7.4 & 14.8cm

3. PORTRAIT. Cut at 14.8cm and cut the remaining narrow strip PORTRAIT at 3cm (you will have another arm left for another card too)

4. Add papers as per following recipe or as you desire....

5. Concertina fold your card and strip

6. Adhere right hand side of the floating strip to the back right hand side 

7. Adhere left hand side of the floating strip to the front left of the card ( TIP - think about where you do not want your glue!!!)

Standard Metric Recipe for Papers

Back 14.3cm Square

Front Left 6.9 x 14.3cm

Pop Out Front 14.3 x 2.5cm

Pop Out Back/Greeting 6.9 x 2.5cm

Or for my American followers... as usual not tried and tested so Crafter Beware!

1. Grab a piece of 8 1/2 x 11" card (or trim down to 6 3/4" x 11")

2. LANDSCAPE. Score at 2 3/4" & 5 1/2"

3. PORTRAIT. Cut at 5 1/2" and cut the remaining strip PORTRAIT at 1 1/4"

4. Add papers as per following recipe or as you desire....

5. Concertina fold your card and strip

6. Adhere right hand side of the floating strip to the back right hand side 

7. Adhere left hand side of the floating strip to the front left of the card ( TIP - think about where you do not want your glue!!!)

Standard Imperial (inches) Recipe for Papers

Back 5 1/4" Square

Front Left 2 1/2" x 5 1/4"

Pop Out Front 5 1/4" x 1"

Pop Out Back/Greeting 2 1/2" x 1"

I will be back sometime soon with a slightly different recipe for the card with the floating arm a different colour to the main card blank - using less card.... but with  extra scoring...

Happy Father's Day... Going Places & Beautiful Ride Square Swing Arm Card

Here is another Square Swing Arm Card ... this time for my Dad... no secrets as to my family's passion and love of VW Beetles... (more on that here!) so it has to be...

And here is the link to the card created by & pinned by Pam Allen at The Serial Stamper that inspired my series of Swing Arm Card makes with the Going Places paper stack for my Men's cards this week... Unfortunately I cannot find the card on The Serial Stamper blog - hence Pam's Pinterest link for a change... but 4300 of us pinners can't be wrong!! Fabulous card Pam.... 

SU! Products Used

Stamps - Beautiful Ride, Guy Greetings

Papers & Card - Going Places stack, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Shimmery White ( for the Beetle)

Inks - Archival Black, Soft Sky & Aquapainter

Pens- Signo gel pen ( for my road markings - did think about adding gemstones too for the cat's eyes!!!), Basic Grey Marker, Sharpie silver metallic pen(non SU!)

You mean the world to me... World's Best Dad...

Love this card format... so simple but oh so clever and very effective... I have been seeing the A6(ish) version quite a lot on the web recently... and I really have to congratulate the originator of this fold... (I think it may be the very talented Frenchie (France Martin) with her Botanicals version here )

So I had to give the card fold a go... but me being me... it had to become a square! So more on the how to do a Square Swing Arm Card another day... as this has very quickly become my go to card....

SU! Products Used
Stamps - Going Global, Guy Greetings
Papers & Card - Going Places paper stack, Mossy Meadow card
Inks - Mossy Meadow, Sahara Sand & dauber. Memento Black