Magnolia Lane Flap Fold Card OR Mini Book

Front View

Wanted to make one of these for many a year... and now I finally have... as the Magnolia Lane papers seemed so perfect for the job.... just a few scores and cuts... and a bit of sticking and there you have it...

Front View

Ready to end as a special card for a special someone... or to add photos as and where you please...

Closed View

Link to the french Tutorial I used here... with the diagram to be found here... although I think the originator was a "Giniew" back in June 2010... but whose IP address isn't available anymore...

And I have to laugh at all the names used for this fold over the years! Quad Fold, Tri Fold, Flap Fold, Flip Book, Accordion Pop Up to name but a few! So take your pick!

Though note that I used the same sized mats and panels on those central left and right sections... rather than the half panels most people seem to use...

Back view

Easier for me from a prepping point of view... and looks a bit neater ( if you get it right!) However it does mean you need to be much more careful ... sticking just half the panel first and then putting glue on the other half and closing the book back to lay flat....

Greetings care of Colorful Seasons... Papers Magnolia Lane

Magnolia Lane Pop Up Front Step Panel Card

What do you get when you combine the Nested Labels with the A6ish Portrait Pop Up Front Step Panel card...

Yup! A new variant for you!

In a few different Magnolia Lane paper-ways... as I had 6 to make... 4 being the same... and then a couple of others...

Back with the specifics another day...

But in the meantime... I just had to share these Nested Labels featuring Magnolia Lane & Magnolia Blooms version with you...

Tuesday Tip - a Frugal card with co-ordinating envelope!

Had to share this quick frugal tip for your Magnolia Lane Memories & More Cards & Envelopes... 

Paper for the card decoration simply cut from the envelope liner... 9.2cm of it (aka 3 5/8")

Talk about waste not want not! And still enough to cover the top of the envelope!

Finished off with a few Daisy Lane daisies and the Genuine Gems large saying again!

Genuine Gems - but not as we know it!

So some people seem to like ...and some loathe... the AWESOME word in the Genuine Gems stamp set...

So I came up with an alternative plan! Congratulations care of Flourishing Phrases... in a die cut Stitched Rectangle...

So now you can add pretty much anything!

Original greeting'd Magnolia Lane Double Point Card details as shared here

Wishing You an Amazing Christmas...

So whilst I was creating yesterday's card... this idea popped into my head too...

Proving that Everything Amazing is what it says on the tin!! For all year round occasions...

Hope you find this useful in creating a strong festive message this year!

And yes the large greeting stamp is inked up in Versamark then Mossy Meadow... and then embossed with Clear embossing powder...

And be sure to see yesterdays post on how to create poinsettias with your Magnolia Lane papers

Merry (Magnolia) Monday

Can't take any credit for the idea of colouring the Magnolia Lane papers in with the Real Red Stampin Blends to create poinsettia flowers...

And annoyingly I forgot to note the name of my fellow clever demonstrator that first shared the idea on out International Demo Only FB site... so please let me know if it was you... and I will quickly update my post...

But thought I should share with you just in case you hadn't caught up with this great idea for getting more out of your papers!!

Oh so simple Magnolia Lane Card

This is probably one of the simplest cards I have ever made... however it wasnt without a challenge!!

Scalloped banner section cut with the 2 dies from the Budding Blooms die set... which I held in place with my favourite purple low tack tape ... but unfortunately ... for the first time ever... the pressure of the rollers in the die cutting machine ripped the white card as I did it!

Greeting care of Kindness & Compassion... 

Then a 9cm square of Magnolia Lane papers slipped in behind...

But don't do as I did in my haste... and that is glue all over the back of the paper or you end up with  sticky back that will stick your card together!

Nor did I then like the inside of the card!

Tuesday Tutorial - De-Constructed (Faux) Double Point Card

So here we go... the simple way to make a Nested Labels Double Point card... as long as you don't want the "flappy bit" which (for many) is probably a main feature of the original Double Point Card... though not for me...

So this simplified way gives me everything I like in the Double Point design... but at speed... and with less materials being needed....

And I changed this one up after the original Noble Peacock De-constructed Double Point Card posted here... as thinner Magnolia Lane papers meant I could add a co-ordinating mat whilst I was at it...

And please note that for simplicity's sake in the Tutorial...

(1) I kept the paper panel the same size for both of these card variations (the coloured mat being optional and that bit larger...)

(2) I have not altered the panel & mat dimensions for a wider US A2 card (4 1/4" ilo Rest of World A6 4 1/8" wide)... so you will have a bit of a white gap to line up on the top and bottom edge of this version...

But that's nice! So why re-design and complicate matters!! Look at this version here to check out "a bit of a white gap"

Craft Spa Recipe
Stamps - Magnolia Blooms
Papers - Magnolia Lane
Stampin Blends - Mossy Meadow combo, Petal Pink combo, So Saffron Dark

Whisper White A6 Tent Card Blank (OR US A2) 
ie 10.5cm x A4long - scored LANDSCAPE at 14.8cm (OR US 4 1/4" x 11" long - score LANDSCAPE at 5 1/2")
Mossy Meadow Card 7.4cm (2 7/8") Square
Paper Panel 6.7cm (2 5/8") Square
(D) Mossy Meadow 12 x 7cm
(D) Whisper White Thick 12 x 7cm     where (D) is for die-cutting

Craft Spa Tutorial
1. Cut Card and Paper Squares diagonally (point to point!)
2. Adhere to each other
3. Adhere to card blank (with or without a gap round the 3 sides)

4. Die cut 2 x Nested Labels
5. Hand cut white Nested Label (using line inside the stitched line to guide your eye AND do shorter ends first)
6. Ink up & Stamp greeting
7. Adhere to each other and to card blank

8. Ink up & Stamp Early Espresso magnolias
9. Colour in using Stampin Blends
10. Fussy Cut using Paper Snips
11. Adhere

Magnolia Lane & Blooms Double Point Card

Another A6 Double Point Fold card... featuring the Magnolia Lane papers... and the Magnolia Blooms and Sorry For Everything stamps...

But in landscape orientation this time... 

With an extra paper panel (the striped one!)...

And the front panel part all stuck down... the centre greeting Nested Labels panel being stuck down with Stampin Dimensionals... so as to still give some extra dimension...

Click here for the Landscape version... with that extra front panel part if you like it that way! Tutorial for this (and that one) linked there too...

And click here for my Deconstructed Double Point card version... for which there is another one coming up soon...so I will remember to add the recipe and instructions! As it is somewhat simpler... and achieves most of the effect!!

And a quick update on my mother... still in ITU... but one heck of a lot better! Still a long way to go though... What can I say! Been a LONG week!

Magnolia Lane Double Point Card

Loving all the Double Point cards around on the web using the Stitched Nested Labels dies... a perfect match of card design and product!!

So thanks to the originator of the use of this concept this time round... which I think may have been Phyllis Shively &  Lisa Curcio here... who shares a video tutorial for you too...

Though I believe the originator of the card fold "way back when in 2017" is the talented Jeanie Stark who can can be found here...  along with her tutorial...

OR just "Google" or "You Tube" A6 Double Point Card if you need a video tutorial for an A6 version (from A4 card)

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Though my "brain" can't work out the appeal of the extra front part that is formed... aka the flap part!

Apart from the fact that it does give a bit of dimension... so I will just be sticking that down! Which still keeps the extra dimension if you use 3D pads...

Front greeting from Genuine Gems... love it! 

And inner greeting using my chopped up Happy Birthday from Perennial Birthday... the one at the bottom left below... that I chopped and can mount one word on top of the other as for this version... or side by side for the designed long version!

Oh and Click here for a simpler version of this Double Point card... aka the Deconstructed one!

Sunday Suite - Garden Lane

The smallest of the Product Suites for you today... Garden Lane...

But these could be my most used papers overall...

As they are truly versatile... can be used for virtually everyone... and for virtually every occasion... and co-ordinate with many of the other papers...

Though personally my favourite "co-ordinator" will be the Magnolia Lane suite... as I do so like my leaves with my flowers!

But back to these Garden Lane papers...

Just a lovely mix of greens... including Garden Green, Mint Macaron, Mossy Meadow, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Sea Foam along with Whisper White

Click on the arrow below to play the flick through video to see more...

And here is the co-ordinating Verdant Garden stamp set...

Which is available as a Garden Lane Suite Bundle too.... so you can purchase both with just one click!

Though... do note that there is no 10% discount that you get with a Product Bundle...

And so as to be clear... with the Suite Bundles... the 10% discount applies to any stamp & die/punch element (ie Product Bundle part of the Suite) but not the rest of the suite...

These Suite Bundles are a new feature... and have been introduced to make the ordering of ALL of the Suite a LOT quicker and easier... as so many people tend to buy the whole suite when ordering....

And here are a few product samples for you...

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