Suspended Book Fold Card

Today I have made a Suspended Book Fold Card following a tutorial by Iced Images. She also has the original design of this card. It is not a particular difficult card to make, however, it does come off as quite a striking card.

I decided to use papers from the Ocean Tale collection from Craft Consortium, a company that has tons of gorgeous collections! Some of which I have made cards with before, as well.(Triple Stepper Card using the Little Fawn and Friends Collection, a Slimline Concertina Card also using the Little Fawn and Friends Collection, a Shadow Box Card using the At Home in the Wildflowers Collection, and a Letter M Gift Box using the Circus Collection). The papers I chose today was from the 6" x 6" paper pad, and I did this mainly because I felt that I would be able to show of more of the patterns in the stunning papers that are designed by Clare Therese Gray.

The collection comes with a variety of things besides the papers, and amongst the embellishments are some beautiful woodshapes. I chose one of them, a blue whale, to be the star of my card. In addition, I stamped a sentiment that I popped up on some acetate, above the whale.

The only thing I changed from Iced Images´ original design, was that I made an actual 5" x 7" folded card base, instead of just a card front. That way I have an inside where I can write my message. Instead of leaving the inside of my card blank, I stamped and heat embossed a couple of whales and a sentiment, just for some decoration.

The card is supposed to fold flat for mailing. I did, however, kind of ruin that by putting my front sentiment popped up on acetate. Because the acetate is somewhat flexible, though, I think it will be ok to push the sentiment down onto the card front, if I decide to mail it to someone. Because of the acetate, it will probably "pop up" (with a little persuation) close to it´s intended shape once it is taken out of the envelope again.

I will definetely be making more cards using Craft Consortium´ gorgeous Ocean Tale collection!

Here is the tutorial by Iced Images:

Craftstash & CO

I have, for quite a while now, been shopping a lot of my paper crafting items from a store called Craftstash. Craftstash is based in the UK, and they offer a huge variety of craft brands, beside their own brand Creative Craft Products. They also have exclusive brands, like Sam Calcott´s "Made to Surprise", Lou Collins´ "Text(ures)", Helen Griffin´s "Simply Made Crafts" and Clare Rowland´s "Daisy Mae Design", just to mention a few.

Recently they have also started something they call Craftstash & CO, where they present a new upcoming designer each month, and gives them a chance to share their own exclusive and limited edition collections. So far they have had three of them, one of them being Marta Debicka, or "Drop of Sunshine" as she calls her Facebook Page, who has been designing her own papers for quite a while now. I like her papers, so I decided to purchase her collaboration with Craftstash & CO, called "On the Border".

I received my order the other day, and used the collection to make a couple of cards.

The first card I made was inspired by Marta´s own cards. She makes beautiful layered designs, using lots of flowers and other embellisments on her cards. The flower decorating the card is a stamp/die set from the collection, that I have stamped, colored and die cut.

For my second project, I decided to make a gatefold card, closed with a bellyband. The flowers decorating the bellyband, are fussy cut from one of the paper sheets in the 8" x 8" paper pack.

Inside I used one of the pocket dies from the collection to make a pocket in which I could stick an insert for writing. I used one of the border dies to decorate the insert.

On the back of the card I heat embossed "thankful for you", which can be found amongst the sentiment stamps. I also used more of the border dies for decoration.

To finish the card off, I decided to make a matching envelope from the collection´s 8" x 8" paper pack.

Her is a link to the Marta Debicka´s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MartaDebicka