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:

Letter Gift Boxes

I first heard the idea of Letter Gift Boxes when I saw Mixed Up Craft´s tutorial on the letter "M". It was one of this years makes in Sam Calcott´s Mothers Day Series - "M" for Mother/Mothers Day. I thought it would be perfect as a little gift for my young nephew Mats André, filled with treats, of course. Therefore I decorated it with a theme I thought he would appreciate, papers from the Circus series from Craft Consortium. I also die cut a banner and letters to spell his name, which I glued to the front of the box. I then filled it with lots of different chocolate treats.🍫

The banner with his name.

The back side of the box.

A sideview showing the opening of the box.

When I had finished the "M" box, I felt like I was kind of on a roll, so I decided to try to make others. I initially wanted to make a "C" next, as one of my sisters names starts with a "C". I ended up struggling with that for quite a while, before I decided to put it aside and do a much easier letter first, namely "L". I thought that even someone as bad as I am in math, could figure out the measurements for an "L".😂 And I did, it wasn´t that hard at all. I wanted this to be a birthday card/gift to my brother-in-law, as his name starts with the letter "L". He loves his beer, so I decorated it with papers from Papirdesign, a series called "Mens vi venter" I used stamps from Papirdesign, and unbranded dies to make the decorations, and filled this with chocolates, as well. His birthday is coming up in April, so I haven´t given this to him yet, but I highly doubt that he ever visits my blog, so there is hardly any danger of him seeing it.

The open box.

I have not made any more Letter Gift Boxes yet, but as I suddenly remembered that I have a Brothers ScanNCut, making the actual letters is not a problem at all. It is the edges that links the front to the back of the box, that takes time to figure out. So as of now, I have both the letter "C" and the letter "G" lying around waiting to be turned into boxes. When that will happen, I don´t know...😂! Mixed Up Crafts tutorial for the letter "M".