Fancy Fold Stampin' Up! Sympathy Card

Oh how I love the feeling of reducing the amount of "stuff" in my craft stash.  It's almost as uplifting as when I purge a closet or drawer.  Can you relate?  Today's project is a new to me fold but I dug into some recently retired dsp and created a beautiful sympathy card for my stash.  I love bringing new life to something that has been placed neatly away. 

The instructions for this fold are quite easy, I found them online from another demo and am enjoying the results.  Once you have prepped all of the supplies, we will put everything together.  I am a firm believer of doing a dry assembly first when trying a new to you fold and also to stamp before you adhere to anything.  If you decide to dry assemble first, you will be able to see where to stamp your inside sentiment (if you want one).  Please stamp your sentiment now.  With the smaller piece of cardstock, which you have already scored along the short side, add some adhesive to only the 1/2" back of the folded piece and adhere to the Basic White Layer.  Add the Basic White layer with the attached colored cardstock to the larger portion of the 4 ¼” x 8 ½” with adhesive.  Next I added the larger of the dsp piece to the top flap of the card.  Now you can add the smaller piece of dsp to the card front with adhesive.  Your cardbase is now complete and decorated with dsp.  You can choose your sentiment, I stamped on a scrap of Fresh Fresia and die cut it out.  I used Stampin' Seal to adhere it and then added a few embellishments.  Another fun twist for a cool effect!

 




 Materials and Measurements:

Fresh Fresia card stock 4 1/4 x 8 1/4 scored and folded at 5 1/2; 3 x 5 1/2 scored and folded at 1/2 on the short side; scrap for sentiment layer (optional)

Basic White Cardstock 4 x 5 1/4

Tea Boutique DSP 4 3/4 x 2 3/4; coordinating design 2 1/2 x 4; strip for inside (card will be landscape so choose and cut your dsp accordingly)

Peaceful Moments and Special Moments stamp sets

Stitched Labels Dies

Memento Tuxedo Black

Adhesives and Embellishments

I can't wait to make more of this fold...might be able to move through a few more sheets of my dsp stash with this one.

Thanks for stopping by,

Mary Louise

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