This card was made for Creative Creases Challenge #27 where the theme is "Anything Goes" as long as you use some fun fold when making your card.
I chose to use the Double Z Fold to showcase the beautiful Stampin' Up! (SU) "Bloom Where You've Been Planted" designer series paper (DSP). All the images and the brick wall were fussy cut from this pattern paper. I was inspired by Jan Radu's blog "Stamping Elegance" (https://stampingelegance.com/2021/05...ed-suite/amp/). I don't have the stamp set she used, so I used the gorgeous pattern paper and did it all using paper snips. I liked the large fig plant so much that I decided to make it the feature that shows when the card is closed, rather than a sentiment like Jan did. But I left plenty of room for the sentiment to be written hidden when the card is folded close.
Instead of the green "wall" inside the Z-fold, I used a piece of SU Cinnamon Cider cardstock that I embossed inside the SU "Painted Texture" embossing folder for a terra cotta look.
It's really an easy card to make, so I'm rating it as a "2" out of a possible "5"... UNLESS you decide to fussy cut all the plants, AND add two inside hidden "shelves" inside the Z-fold :-) If you want to add those hidden "shelves" just cut two strips 3-1/4" long and 1-1/2" high, then score at each end at 1/4" from to create the connectors that you glue/tape to the stucco wall and the short brick wall of the Z. Given how I "did it the hard way", I'm rating the actual card I created as a "3".
Date: Friday, March 11, 2022 GMT Views: 498
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