Happy New Year! I do hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We had a very quiet, relaxing time at home, and I am looking forward to getting back into things.

Welcome to January’s Build & Bloom Blog Hop. This month, our theme is Love & Friendship, totally fitting with upcoming Valentine’s Day and my monthly Product Spotlight. Each month I will be using a chosen product, a bundle, suite or a single item, to create with and share with you many different ideas and projects. I have chosen the Love Notes 6×6 DSP for January, and I am loving how easy it is to use.

The card I have chosen to share today, is a Fun Fold card I created at the recent Build & Bloom Craft and Chat event. We have a mystery stamping segment, where we are given measurements of card and paper to pre-cut. During the event, we are then told how to score and put the pieces together. It is a great way to see how different a card can look by using different coloured card and papers.

How to create a simple fun fold card.

Cut a piece of thick Basic White card stock, measuring 28.5cm x 14.9cm. Score each end at 3cm, 6cm, and 9cm. Fold and burnish your score line into valley, mountain, valley, valley, mountain, and valley. This will give you three panels either side of a larger centre panel.

Using two coordinating designs of DSP, cut eight strips measuring 2.7cm x 14.6cm. Adhere strips to your six panels. The remaining two strips will be adhered to the outer two panels on the reverse.

Trim another piece of thick Basic White card stock, measuring 29cm x 10cm, and score at 14.5cm. This will give you a tent fold card. Adhere a DSP panel to the front, measuring 9.5cm x 14cm.

I chose a sentiment from one of the cut-a-parts within the DSP pack and trimmed to size, you could also stamp a sentiment of your choice. Adhere your sentiment using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Add a small Real Red & White Baker’s Twine bow, using a mini glue dot and several Rhinestone Basic Jewels around your sentiment. Adhere your tent fold card to your large centre panel.

Finish your card by adding a small cut-a-part image, from the DSP, to the inside of your tent fold.

I do hope I have given you some inspiration, and you will create your own fun fold card. All products used are listed below and available to purchase from my online shop.

Please do continue to hop round for lots more inspiration.

Happy Crafting

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Love Notes 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Mix & Match Designer Series Paper [166985] £11.75	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220] £5.75	Real Red & White Baker's Twine [164051] £4.75	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] £16.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] £4.00
Mini Glue Dots [103683] £6.75	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £5.75	Paper Trimmer [152392] £27.00