A Fun Fold Get Well Wish

Howdy, Blogging Friends, thanks for dropping by. It has been a week since my last post. My Real Non-Art Life needed me. We had my dad's Committal Service at the church last Saturday morning and it went really well. Then lunch with Dear Daughter and Son-In-Love and off to a Celebration of Life in the afternoon for a dear friend who passed. And Sunday was Father's Day, my first without my Dad. On Monday, I think it all hit me and I slept on and off until Wednesday, when I decided enough of that and began planning 3 cards. I have finished one and am sharing it today.

I need more Get Well and Sympathy cards, and I wanted to use this adorable Helz Cuppleditch stamp I bought long time ago from Stampavie. The card is A2-size and is almost all made from snippets I found in my paper scraps drawers. No whole sheets of paper were sacrificed hehe. Even the DCWV card base was pre-cut a while back, all I had to do was score it and follow the sketch I chose.

 

And that's when I looked at the Try Stampin on Tuesday sketch and saw a Z-Fold card, which is funny since that is also the optional technique! I have seen lots of fun folds by other card makers lately and I guess I got bitten by the bug. 

And if you will notice, the stamp doesn't include the floor. I got some masking practice in, too!

 

 This is my new masking paper. I love it, not too sticky but just right, stays down yet comes up cleanly. I stamped the image using VersaFine Clair Nocturne onto a Ranger Distress Specialty Stamping sheet and clear-heat-embossed. Then I stamped again onto my masking paper with Ranger Archival Jet Black and fussy cut my mask out.

 I applied my mask and stamped the Lost Coast Perspective Floor with VersaFine Clair Morning Mist, removed the mask and clear-heat-embossed.

Et Voila'! Ready to color with my ProMarkers. I think that grey floor looks pretty nifty, don't you? Especially after coloring the image:

All of the paper snippets I used were from a DCWV paper stack bought long ago, I think maybe a Summer Stack, not sure. It had lots of florals but also patterns and solids. I used my circle punches for the Crafty Secrets sentiment. I tried to photograph the card as it opened up and the various surfaces, so you'd get an idea of it:

 Okay, I just noticed the incorrect grammar on the Hope Your Feeling Better Soon stamp! Should be YOU'RE. Gosh! I may have to try to draw an e and an apostrophe and then throw that stamp away because I can't use that. Thanks, Autumn Leaves! I'd complain but they've been out of biz for years. Oh well! The vintage-y and grammatically eloquent sentiment on the left is Crafty Secrets. And I had another Get Well Soon stamped in a circle to add to the back of the front one.

 I was so thrilled to get all the way through making this WITHOUT SCREWING UP that I forgot to do a siggie on the back. Probably will just use my big Lawn Fawn Handmade with Love and stamp it directly onto the patterned paper, after I get through drawing that e. Here is a final view:

 I hope you liked seeing my card. I'm pretty proud of it as I did it all organically, figuring out as I went. It was time-consuming but not hard because it was a very simple fold.  Heaven forbid I'd follow a tutorial or watch a you tube, lol, even though as a newbie to fun folds I SURE COULD USE IT! Some of the cards I have seen make me dizzy thinking how to make them!  I had fun and concentrating on it helped me feel better after an emotional week. I do love how this card follows the sketch AND it's a fun-fold, too!

CHALLENGES:
1.  TSOT #412 Sketch + Fun Fold Technique - I did both! Sketch is shown above

2.  I Love ProMarkers #386: AG + Opt. More Than One Layer - I have played the option with multiple paper layers!

3.  Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper June Challenge: AG with Patterned Paper

4.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies #27: AG with a Critter - I have a bear featured on my focal image.

5.  613 Avenue Create #222: AG + Opt. More than One Fold - I have played the option and made a Z-fold card with 3 folds.

6.  Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #354: AG with a Snippet - Yes, please include me in the draw this time, thanks!

7 . Ike's Art Challenge #121: F is for Folds / AG

8.  Love to Scrap Challenge #122: AG + Opt. No Rulz 3

9.  Love to Craft Challenge #35: June AG

10.  Crafting From the Heart #245: Always AG

Until next time,

xox