Create An Easy DIY Accordion Flip Card Using Designer Paper along w/ Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio in this Stampin' Up Card Making Class

Create An Easy DIY Accordion Flip Card Using Designer Paper along w/ Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio in this Stampin' Up Card Making Class

Create An Easy DIY Accordion Flip Card Using Designer Paper along w/ Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio in this Stampin' Up Card Making Class

Today is our youngest daughters twenty-first birthday! She is away at college so I made her a special birthday box as usual. The star of the show is, of course,... [Read More]

You can make a creative Accordion Fold Card to show off your designer & scrapbook papers. This card tutorial includes measurements & photos.

Here's an interactive e-learning style guide I created for a mock tech company called "Dynamic Fuse." It makes heavy use of Rise 360 interactions like the accordion block, flip cards, sorting block, and the Storyline block to deliver loads of engaging, interactive ways to explore e-learning design standards.  View this project in action Creating an interactive style guide like this is so easy with Rise 360.  I think the results are beautiful and professional—and will be a breeze to keep up-to-date as standards evolve. Click here to send a copy of this course to your Rise 360 dashboard. If you don’t have access to Rise 360, sign up for a free, 30-day trial of Articulate 360.    

Finally had the chance to play with my Sizzix Accordion Flip Album die. Totally inspired after spying Helen's amazing card, I knew I had to try one for our Mothers Day cards this year. I always enjoy playing with acetate and had loads of fun putting this together. Love the effect of the butterflies suspended in air, appearing to be flying through the frames of the card.  Using the Sizzix Accordion Flip Album die, each panel was cut three times, once from clear acetate, once from patterned paper, and again from cardstock. I snipped off the center pieces from the ones cut from patterned paper and cardstock, leaving just the outer frames and tabs to glue onto the front and back of the acetate panels. I wanted my first panel be flat so I used a 9.5 x 4.75" piece of cardstock folded in half and adhered to the tab of the second panel. Spellbinders Labels One dies were used to cut and frame my sentiment for the front. Then came the fun part of embellishing the acetate panels with the butterflies and swirls. I used Memory Box dies for the larger butterflies and Cheery Lynn dies for the smaller ones. Green leafy swirl border is also a Cheery Lynn die, and the very tiny butterflies on the border are from a Memory Box die. The one problem with acetate is that it doesn't stay folded flat, so keeping the card in a closed position was a little bit of a challenge. To solve this, I made a separate tri-fold wrap with a ribbon closure to keep my card folded inside. Part of the fun is that once the ribbon is untied, the accordion card inside literally springs open! For our Mothers Day family dinner out, I ordered strawberry daifukumochi from Made In Hawaii Foods to share with all the moms. Wanted to put them in a pretty bag, but didn't have much time so it had to be kept simple... Used MTC to create a simple strawberry embellishment for the bags from a line drawing found on the internet. Added a pink satin bow and it was done.  Check out the size of these strawberries! These strawberries covered with an (sweet bean paste) and wrapped in soft mochi were worth every yummy penny...been so craving this ever since our trip to Japan a few weeks ago! Got one more surprise project of another RAK from our sweet friend Lorna at work... Cutest little paper teacup ever! Thought she had used a Sizzix die for this, but learned later that this is all Cricut! Will have to talk to Lorna more to find out the deets, but I'm guessing she might have used a cupcake wrapper die? Love, love the cute little paper rose embellishments she added too. Wow, just can't get over all the wonderful paper projects this girl comes up with! Does she ever sleep? Thank you, Lorna!!! 

I shared this fun fold yesterday, and promised to get the measurements in your hands today! Click on the link below to access the PDF and be sure to copy […]

Create An Easy DIY Accordion Flip Card Using Designer Paper along w/ Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio in this Stampin' Up Card Making Class

Create An Easy DIY Accordion Flip Card Using Designer Paper along w/ Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio in this Stampin' Up Card Making Class

Create an Interlocking & Expanding Accordion Card with Lisa’s Stamp Studio! Lisa will show you how to make this interlocking, multipanel birthday card the easy way. Fun Fold Cards // Handmade Card Ideas // Free Tutorial // Easy to Make DIY Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2023⁠ #lisacurcio #lisasstampstudio #funfoldcards #stampinupcard #DIYcard #cardmaking #greetingcard #papercraft #handmade cards

Hi everyone! I am delighted that you have popped by today :) Today I want to share with you a tutorial I made for an Accordion Fold Card that you can create without buying the die! This can be d…

Today's share is a '4 Panel Accordian Flip Card'. This is the one I sent to my friend Sue for our August First mailing. She has had a rath...

If you like to mass produce cards, the Stack, Cut and Shuffle Technique is for you!

Hi Everyone! I don’t know about you, but I love finding a layout that’s quick & easy AND cute. Hand-Penned Designer Paper is a early Annual Catalog favorite of mine. This is what it looks like closed. And this open. I have a video tutorial for you on how to make. The measurements can be […]

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This style of accordion fold card is so quick to make because its only one sheet of Designer Series Paper folded and added to the card base.

See How Designer Paper Can Make a Masculine Birthday Card Quick & Easy with Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio in this YouTube Card Tutorial!

What an amazing card! This "wow" is so much fun to create. It looks hard, but if you just follow the directions and keep moving forward, the mechanism just comes together. I know - I start to panic a bit when I think about it...but as our fishy friend Dori…

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Hello and welcome to today's Step x Step ! It's Sue here and today I'm sharing my first experiment making an Accordion Card. As the current challenge theme is Any Way you Fold it my thoughts were still on different folds and I've been itching to have a go with this die, so here we go. I started by cutting 4 panels and then blending Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge Distress Inks over both sides. Then I used the gorgeous background stamp from the Wendy Vecchi Heirloom Art set and stamped over all 4 panels using Coffee Archival ink. I cut 4 smaller panels using a Nestability and used more Distress Ink with some of the fabulous Wendy Vecchi's stencils. I love the check pattern you can create using the Yikes Stripes stencil. I then cut some strips of DIY masking tape and painted them using Spiced Marmalade Distress Paint. Using an ordinary pencil with a rubber on the end I dipped it into some brown acrylic paint and dabbed it onto the painted masking tape. I then started to stamp the images for each panel. I used the above stamp from the Artistic Outpost Paris Exposition set and used a smaller Nestability to cut out part of the image. I blended lots of Distress Ink around the edges, which you'll see in a later photo. I used the Movers and Shapers Mini Stamp die and the stamps from the Artistic Outpost Paris Exposition set. I quite liked not having the complete image on the stamps. Again, you'll see in a later photo I used lots of Distress Ink around the edges of the stamps. For one of the panels I've used this beautiful stamp from the Artistic Outpost Flower Market set and I've used Distress Markers and stamped onto watercolour paper. I then used 2 different sizes of flower dies and cut out the stamped image and also cut 2 flowers from brown tissue paper which I then stamped over with some text. I made a smaller flower using the Tim Holtz Tattered Flower strip die. I cut several flowers from an old book page, layered them and then rubbed some Vintage Photo Distress Ink over the edge of the petals. Here are the four finished panels, I also added some ripped pieces from an old book to some of the panels and I've stamped on them with a script stamp. For the 'Joie de Vivre' panel I've used the Artistic Outpost Flower Market and Paris Exposition sets again. I cut the girls face out using the Mini Bottle Cap die and cut the text into separate words. Here's the final card, which was really tricky to photograph ! I've blended more Distress Ink around the edges of the panels to age them. I've taken some close ups of the finished panels so that you can see the details. I stamped some acrylic paint dots on a piece of book page for the background on the above panel. Here you can see the girls face a little better on the bottle cap and also the finished flower. I layered the above image on some more book paper and rubbed some Distress Ink over the edges of the paper flowers. I've added some May Arts crocheted lace to this panel. I hope you've enjoyed today's step x step and you've still got time to show us your different folds ! Sue x

As promised, here's a free photo tutorial of one of the more complicated of the designs we did at Advanced Papercrafters Class this month, featuring the Circles Card Thinlits for the Sizzix Big Shot. I'm calling it a porthole flip-fold card, for obvious reasons... basically there's a window that goes all the way through to the back of the card. This would be really cool to use with our Clear Translucent Envelopes! Here's the card, opened... you can see the basic Circles Card Thinlit base, with extra openings. It's waaaaaay easier than you'd think, actually! So uncomplicated, actually, that you...

I wanted to use the new Best Wishes Die Set which Stephanie Barnard sent me recently, which fits perfectly with Sizzix Circle #4 Flip-its die. Some of the lovely new products by Stephanie Barnard for Sizzix and The Stamps of Life. I used floral paper from We R Memory Keepers 'Chalkboard' 6x6 pad, flowers from Karen Burniston's Flower Pot Pop Stand die set, and leaves from My Favorite Things Wild Greenery die set. I used a punch for the flower stamens, and some Bubble Gum Nuvo Crystal Drops in the flowers centres. I used the Best Wishes die twice, snipped out the words from the glitter card die cut, and layered it on top. Some of products used:

The Pull Up Accordion Card | Luvin Stampin

I have an awesome card fold to share with you today - not too difficult, and it looks spectacular when standing up on display. Although it does take a lot of card stock, it would be fantastic for a special occasion or for an event where lots of people wish to sign their name. TEMPLATES 1. Start by trimming your card stock to size. You'll need a 12" x 51/2" piece for the card base plus an extra 41/2" x 51/2" piece to extend the base. You'll also need an 81/2" x 31/4" piece and a 9" x 31/4" piece for the insert. 2. Time to score everything. Place the 12" x 51/2" piece horizontally on your score board and score at 4" and 8". Fold along the score lines starting with a valley fold then a mountain fold. 3. Place the 41/2" x 51/2" piece of card stock vertically on your score board and score at 4". This will leave you with a 1/2" tab on one side. 4. Place the 81/2" x 31/4" piece of card stock horizontally on the score board and score at 23/4" and 51/2". 5. Place the 9" x 31/4" piece of card stock horizontally on the score board and score at 23/4", 51/2" and 81/2". Fold along all the score lines. 6. Apply glue or double sided tape to the 1/2" tab on the 41/2" x 51/2" piece of card stock. Secure it to the right-hand side of the 12" x 51/2" piece, keeping the tab to the back of the card. Your card base should resemble the letter "M" when viewed from above. Set aside to dry. 7. Apply glue or double sided tape to the 1/2" tab on the 9" x 31/4" piece of card stock and secure it to the right hand side of the 81/2" x 31/4" piece of card stock. IMPORTANT NOTE: The 81/2" x 31/4" piece of card stock has been divided into three panels by the score lines you added earlier. The panels measure 23/4", 23/4" and 3" in width from left to right. Make sure you are joining the tab to the 3" section. When you fold the insert along the score lines, you should notice that middle section is 1/4" longer than the other two sections. See the photos below. 8. Your card stock should now look like the photo below. The taller piece is the card base and the narrower piece is the insert. 9. Choose a set of rectangular nesting dies to cut the windows from the card base. The dies need to be tall enough for the insert to fit comfortably inside (see photo below). They should be wide enough to leave a minimum of 1/2" on either side of the panel. If you don't have dies, it's perfectly okay to use a trimmer or craft knife to cut windows in the base, keeping all four cuts at least 1/2" from the sides of the panel. 10. Your insert should fit through both windows with plenty of room to spare. 11. Time to decorate! For the insert, you'll need four pieces of patterned paper measuring 21/2" x 3" and two pieces measuring 23/4" x 3". For the card base, you'll need five pieces of patterned paper measuring 33/4" x 51/4", which includes one piece for the card front. 12. Cut a window in two of the 33/4" x 51/4" pieces of card stock to form frames for the card base. This is where the nesting dies really come in handy as you can use the next size up from the one you used on the card base. 13. Use glue or double sided tape to secure all the patterned paper to the card base and the insert. You may prefer to leave one of the panels on the insert blank for a message or stamped sentiment. 14. Add your embellishments and sentiments, keeping everything relatively flat so it doesn't add too much bulk to the finished project. 15. Once your insert is decorated, thread it through the two windows as shown in the photos below. 16. Apply adhesive to the back of the first panel of your insert and secure it to the card base, about 1/2" from the outside edge. Repeat for the last panel of the insert. 17. Since the card is very bulky, it will not stay closed without a little help. I found the simplest solution was to create a belly band from a 11/2" wide strip of card stock and some embellishments. 18. Wrap the card stock around the centre of the card, leaving a small overlap. Secure into a loop with glue or double sided tape. Decorate with a strip of patterned paper, images, stamps and sentiments. NOTE: I adapted these instructions to remove the ribbon closure that was included in all the other examples I could find of this card, and replaced it with a simple belly band. If you'd prefer the ribbon closure, just do a google search for "multi-panel accordion cards" and you'll find lots of great tutorials. Products:

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Good afternoon, crafty friends, followers and visitors, welcome to new follower Natalia, thank you becoming a follower. hope you have got a lovely sunny day where you are. Commission Mothers day card, accordion style card, these are really hard work, with all the die cutting, if you have`nt any idea as what to decorate with...lol. Not an ideal shape to take a photo either.. think you`ll get an idea though... I used the memory box.. large "classic uppercase" alphabet set, white card and pink..not sure if it is still available at http://www.oysterstamps.co.uk/index.html .. flowers are a mixture I`ll list below..heart spellbinders Lacey heart.. butterfly`s have been cut away from memory box "Kensington border"..die items used Accordion dies ..here memory box... Large classic uppercase alphabet... kensington border.. precious hearts...here lavish branch. honeyblossom sprig.. blooming posie. here blooming poinsettia here spellbinder lace hearts.. here heartfelt delicate aster here justrite hugs and kisses stamps. here thank you for calling by my blog..any comments left I will find you to return one to you. pam

Which is your favourite ink pad? Which inkpad do you reach for the most? This week at Simon Says Stamp & Show the challenge is to use your favourite ink pad. This is almost an impossible choice for me, I have many favourite ink pads, but of all of them, Ranger Archival Jet Black ink is the most versatile and the ink I use the most. It makes its appearance of almost every project of mine. I love that it is waterproof and can be stamped on many different surfaces. I made a double-high accordion card using Karen Burniston's Sizzix Accordion Flip 3-D album die. You can see how to make the album double-high here. This height was perfect for the new Tim Holtz Time Traveler stamps, by Brett Weldele. Fabulous images and lots of fun to colour. I love making accordion cards and little books (here's another double-high one and here's a tutorial for an ordinary sized one). They are so much fun to make and to receive and there is plenty of space for embellishments. I stamped the two gentlemen on watercolour paper with Archival Jet Black ink. Here's my well-used ink pad, I actually had to re-ink it again just yesterday. This ink pad is never far from my reach on my desk. It doesn't even have a storage place, because I always leave it straight in front of me. I also decided to use three of my favourite Distress Inks: Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, and Salty Ocean, for all the colour on the card. I couldn't craft without Antique Linen, it is my most used Distress Ink. Love the blue of Salty Ocean and the brown of Gathered Twigs. They look great together too. After letting the Jet Black ink dry for a while, I watercoloured the gentlemen with the tree Distress Inks. This is one of my favourite ways of using both the Archival Ink and distress ink. If you are planning to watercolour, you need to stamp with a waterproof ink, otherwise it will smear. I just smeared the three distress inks on my craft sheet, gave them each one mist of water and coloured the images with a paint brush. Depending on how much water you use, you can get many shades of colour from just one ink pad. I always make sure to mist at the edge of a colour on my craft sheet, so that I have some concentrated ink to work with too. This is the front of the card when it is closed. I stamped the edges with a stamp from Tim Holtz School Desk set, again with the Jet Black ink. The letters were die cut from black kraft-core cardstock, sanded and inked. The panels were die cut from natural sticky-back canvas and coloured by smearing Salty Ocean and Gathered Twigs on my craft sheet, misting the canvas heavily with water (you can even go and run it under a tap) and then dipping it into the ink. When dry, I used a background stamp to add texture, stamping with Gathered Twigs. The light bulb was distressed with Antique Linen Distress Paint. The clock was stamped on Ranger's Specialty Stamping paper with Archival Jet Black. I love the detail you get with this ink on Specialty Stamping and on glossy cardstock. I just couldn't help to add some gears and game spinners too. The second panel of the card, also photographed with the card closed, to better capture the details. This gentleman was coloured the same way. After cutting them out, I inked the edges with Gathered Twigs. I stamped a sentiment from Elements of Time on the canvas panel, with Archival Jet Black. The edges of the canvas panels were frayed a bit and inked with Gathered Twigs. The ticket was die cut from Specialty Stamping Paper, stamped with the coordinating ticket stamp and inked with Gathered Twigs. Isn't it a great brown? I also used some chit chat stickers. Here's a view from the top so that you can see the mechanism of the card. I hope you will join us this week and show us a project with your favourite ink pad. As every week, our wonderful sponsor Simon Says Stamp gives a $50 gift voucher to one random participant. Thank you for the visit! I hope you will have a great week! Happy Stamping!! Anna-Karin Supplies: Stamps: Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz: Time Travelers, School Desk, Warehouse District, Stuff to Say, Going Somewhere, Elements of Time, Ultimate Grunge Dies: Sizzix: Accordion Flip 3-D Album, Bracket Frame & Label, Mini Filmstrip & Tickets, Wanted Sizzlits Ink: Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black; Distress Ink: Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Salty Ocean Paint: Distress Paint Antique Linen Surfaces: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Lost & Found paper stash; Claudine Hellmuth Natural Sticky-Back Canvas; Tim Holtz Core'dinations Kraft-Core cardstock; Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper; watercolour paper Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Game Spinners, Sprocket Gears, Long Fasteners, Light Bulbs, Chit Chat stickers

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Tutorial time! Today I am sharing a step-by-step tutorial using Karen Burniston's Sizzix Accordion Flip 3-D Album die, as well as a lot of other dies and as always some fun techniques. This die is fabulous and there are so many possibilities, you can make an accordion card, a mini-book, or even attach it to a scrapbooking page. It is a Bigz die, so it is not large, but you can make a pretty large project with it. I did a Four Seasons accordion booklet with four pages, you can add as many pages as you need. Here's the outside when the mini-book is folded up. I used some of my favourite quotes about nature and built a little seasonal scene on each page, using ink, stamping, shrink plastic and paper. Here's how I made this: The Bracket Frame die coordinates perfectly with the Accordion Flip Album die, both the inside label and the outer frame. This is a very useful die, it cuts a fabulous label and two different frames. I used all the parts on this card. Die cut as many pages as you need from watercolour paper (or another cardstock that can handle water, such as manila). Since Distress Inks are reactive with water, they work perfect for watercolour techniques. Smear two shades of blue on a craft sheet and mist lightly with water. Use a paint brush and apply an even layer of clean water where you want your sky to be. I took this photo at an angle, so you can see how wet the paper is. The water helps the ink to move around and blend nicely. Start from the top with the darker shade of blue and start dropping ink in, continue with the lighter blue and leave some areas the white of the paper. Quickly drop in a little bit of the darker blue to create cloud shadows. Leave to dry. Don't fiddle around too much with the ink, you usually get a better result by working quickly, before the water dries, and then let it dry. Continue in the same way with the other four labels. I used Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass on all the skies, by altering the amount of water, you can get many values of blue from one ink. My spring and summer skies are bluer than the autumn and the even paler winter sky. After the skies are completely dry, use the same techniques on the grass/snow. This time, start by painting clean water only on the grass area, one at a time, and then drop in two shades of green. I used Shabby Shutters and Mowed Lawn for the spring and summer grass, Peeled Paint and Forest Moss for autumn and Iced Spruce and Pumice Stone for the winter snow. Leave to dry, or dry with a heat gun. To add some texture, I used background stamps and stamped with the same colours Distress Inks, holding the stamp in my hand for a random impression. The spring scene was stamped with Shabby Shutters and the summer scene with Mowed Lawn and an alphabet stamp (below the spring scene on the photo) and with birds using Stormy Sky. The autumn grass was stamped with Forest Moss and the snow with Iced Spruce and a dotty texture stamp. Die cut the Accordion Flip album four times from white cardstock (only two are shown on the photo). Cut the flaps off the first page since you don't need them - I forgot to cut the flaps off from the label on the first page shown here. Apply adhesive to the places shown, I used Wonder Tape, but you could use another double-sided tape or glue dots too. Karen shows how to assemble the album in this video. Attach the pages as shown in the photo, and continue with the rest of the pages in the same manner. Here you can see all the four pages attached together. I adhered the four labels on top. If you want to you can decorate them first. Don't attach the flaps on the labels yet, that will make decorating difficult. Die cut two frames from kraft resist paper using the Bracket Frame die. Attach them to the front and the back of the accordion book using double-sided tape. Here you can see the front of the book. The Accordion Flip die both cuts and scores the pages, but you have to help the score lines along a bit when you fold up the book. Now to decorating the pages. Since I wanted to create little seasonal scenes, I need small embellishments, and one of my favourite ways of creating them is to use shrink plastic. You can see how much the pieces shrink if you look at the large cloud on the photo, which is still the original size. Die cut the Tree & Heart, clouds from the Kites Framelits set, and Birds on a Wire (which might need a bit of help with scissors) from shrink plastic. Stamp some of them. I used a swirl stamp and Olive Stazon ink on the tree, a text stamp on the birds and an alphabet stamp on two of the clouds with Jet Black Stazon. Shrink according to the instructions on the package. I decided that I needed more shrink plastic pieces, and cut a Mini Bird, Mini Tattered Leaves and a Mini Butterfly. The leaves were stamped with a texture stamp and Olive Stazon ink and the butterfly with a dot stamp and Pumpkin Orange. Color all the shrink plastic pieces at the back with alcohol inks. I used Stonewashed and Lettuce on the birds and coloured the wire with a black permanent pen. The leaves were coloured with Sunset Orange and Meadow, the tree crown with Meadow, Lettuce and Pesto, the trunk with Meadow and Espresso, the heart with Red Pepper, the little bird with Stonewashed and the butterfly with Sunshine Yellow. The clouds were painted with white paint at the back, to create a fluffy look. Let the alcohol ink dry, then paint the back (where the alcohol ink was applied) with white paint. This gives a more opaque look to the pieces. As you can see, the paint picks up the colour of the ink a bit, but that doesn't matter. To give a more finished and rounded look to shrink plastic pieces, I like to apply a layer of Glossy Accents on top. Do this on all the pieces and put aside to dry. I had to break off a little piece at the bottom of the trunk of the tree, so that the tree would fit on the label. The trunk was placed into the wet glossy accents on the crown. You might see the glossy accents on the birds better on this photo. I wanted some parts of the scenes to be paper, for a variety of materials. The tree from Halloween Shadows was die cut twice from green and brown Core'dinations ColorCore cardstock (there are three trees on the photo, but I didn't use one them). This is a Halloween die, but many of the shapes on it work great for lots of other themes too. I also cut the fence from white cardstock and the little owl from brown Core'dinations. The Mini Pine was cut from Kraft-Core Core'dinations. All the Core'dinations pieces were sanded a bit and white paint was dry-brushed on the branches of the pine tree. I wanted to repeat the label shape, and die cut it from shrink plastic. Punch a hole at the top (remember that the hole shrinks too). A sentiment was stamped on top with Jet Black Stazon, before shrinking. Here you can see how much it shrinks. Coat the label with Glossy Accents and leave to dry. I pierced a hole in the frame and used a jump ring to attach the label. Time to assemble the scenes. I used four shades of blue ColorCore cardstock to die cut the names of the seasons, using the Alphabetical Sizzlits die. Sand the letters a bit. Print quotes that you like on ledger paper and cut into strips. The flowers were die cut from white cardstock with the Tattered Flower Garland. Glue all the pieces with Glossy Accents. The summer scene, with the butterfly fluttering over the picket fence. Each of these scenes would work very well as a card too, if you don't want to make the whole accordion booklet. The owl can be glued so that it looks as if it is sitting on a branch of the tree. The leaves are falling down. Finally, the frosty winter scene, with one small little blue bird and one of my favourite quotes. When the labels are decorated, you can finish the assembly, by attaching the flaps on the labels to the label before it. Every second flap is attached in front of the frame, and every second flap behind the frame piece, as you can see of this photo of the finished project. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you so much for the visit! Happy crafting! Anna-Karin Supplies: Dies: Sizzix: Accordion Flip 3-D Album, Bracket Frame & Label, Birds on a Wire, Halloween Shadows, Kites Framelits Die Set w/Stamps, Tattered Flower Garland, Tree & Heart, Mini Tattered Leaves, Mini Butterflies, Mini Bird & Cage Set, Alphabetical, Mini Pine Tree & Holly Set Surfaces: Ranger shrink plastic; Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft Resist paper stash; Core'dinations Tim Holtz Color-Core and Kraft-Core cardstock; Bazzill white cardstock; Basic Grey Basics 6 by 6 ledger paper; Daler & Rowney Watercolour paper Stamps: Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz: School Desk, Mixed Media, Mini Ornates, Tiny Textures, Words for Thought; Hero Arts Seasonal Memories LL007 Ink: Ranger Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Shabby Shutters, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Stormy Sky, Iced Spruce, Pumice Stone; Stazon Jet Black, Olive Green, Pumpkin Orange Alcohol ink: Ranger Adirondack: Espresso, Denim, Sunset Orange, Red Pepper, Stonewashed, Butterscotch, Sunshine Yellow, Pesto, Lettuce, Meadow Paint: Ranger Adirondack Snow Cap Adhesive: Ranger Glossy Accents, Wonder Tape

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Accordion Pop Up Hi friends Dr Sonia here sharing a project featuring 2 of my favorite crafty techniques: Interactive Card making and Handmade flowers. I fell in love with Pop Up Card making a couple of years back when I made a pop up card using a template fromRobert Sabuda. Since then I have experimented making all kind of pop up cards and even designed a few of my own![ there are 71 pop up cards on my blog and 28 pop up card tutorials!] Pop up cards are so much fun to gift yet we see so few handmade pop up cards ! Yes I agree they are not the easiest of cards to make ..they require precision and accuracy and exercising quite a bit of brain power! But if you are making a card for a loved one /friend/ client I can guarantee...a well executed pop up card is sure to elicit a big "Wow!" Karen Burniston is an extremely talented pop up card "dies" designer who has tackled all the difficulties of pop up card making and designed gorgeous dies to help crafters of all levels make fun interactive and crazily "wow" pop up cards with ease. I recently made a Pop Up Spinning Ball card using a pop up ball die she had designed for Sizzix and promptly became her fan so when Shalini asked me to chose a die for my DT project...I had to pick up the most attractive one of the lot...an awesome Oval Accordion Die Karen had designed for Elizabeth Craft designs. Using this die you can make accordion cards with 2 to "n " number of panels and the most spectacular feature of the Karen's pop up accordion cards are that they also feature pop up up elements which swing out on opening the card! New crafters often ask for guidance on which die designs and brands to buy. Regarding designs...its always a personal choice. In my must have list are basic shapes such as ovals and circles. This particular die set has 6 dies including 4 nesting ovals ...one plain, one scalloped and 2 which can give cool faux stitched borders to your oval die cuts. There is also a tiny little heart which you can leave attached to the inner most oval to get a perfectly centered heart aperture! So real value for money [ sorry if I sound like an advertisement but I have to applaud the sheer intelligence and forethought of the die designer!] And regarding brands , there are many brands which design super intricate dies [ Sue Wilson, Cheery Lynn , Spellbinders , Tattered Lace etc] and though these dies are so beautiful they are sometimes a pain to cut..requiring metal plate adapters, several passes through your die cutting machine and poking and prising the die cut! With regards to sheer ease of use ie the dies which cut smoothly and don't need several passes and much poking and pulling my top favorite brands are the Sizzix BigZ dies, Memory Box dies and now the Elizabeth Craft design dies. I love the way the die cut ivory card stock and thick pattern paper easily ! To make this Accordion Pop Up card I layered the pattern paper on the thick card base [ thick cardstock is crucial to the success of this design]. Add caption Sharing something new I discovered...a lovely glue called Tom Bow [ yeah I have been going on and on about glue lately but this one is too good to not share...]..I thought it was just a regular white glue but the best thing about this one is apply just a little smear and it sticks so well and the bottle has a fine tip at one end and a broad tip at the other end-- such a useful feature when you want to switch between gluing delicate parts of a die cut or a curved area and covering large areas quickly. Add caption And coming back to the Pop up card..each die cut has a tab on one end and you can attach the tabs to create card and albums with multiple panels. I trimmed a Spellbinders Majestic labels 25 to fit my card panels And added a Spellbinders borderabilities curved border atop my panel to create a lacy arch. Its always fun to trim and mix and match your die cuts! After decorating and accordion folding your card panels , comes the most fun part...creating the swinging pop up elements! Karen's design is so cool...you just have to add a good adhesive [ best is red tacky tape] to the tab on one oval and stick it under the oval of the next card , a little twist and turn and your pop up album/ card is ready! And the best thing about pop up cards/ albums is that they fold absolutely flat to mail! Added a Cheery Lynn lamp post and some shimmery handmade flowers on the panels of the card. The silvery " Happy Birthday" was cut from glitter foam using Elizabeth Craft design dies.Though its such a delicate beautiful font it cut so easily even on foam!The white butterly was stamped on parchment and die cut and the golden butterflies all over the card are Cheery Lynn . I hope you like the Pop Up Accordion card I made ! I love making flowers and sharing a few tips to easily and quickly glamorize your handmade flowers. 1. Punch/ handcut/ die cut flowers . I used the popular Spellbinders Rose creations die to cut flowers from cream colored handmade paper. If you regularly use white paper to make flowers, try using off white , cream or yellow paper as it gives a lovely hue to your flowers even after coloring them. 2. Its fun to work with stamp and die cut flowers such as the popular heartfelt creations flowers but suppose you dont want to invest in stamps here is an equally fun and economical tip : Draw fine lines/ other designs on your flower petals using a fine liner sketch pen or a pencil. I used a brown misaki sketch pen. 3. Ink your flower petals in 2 shades. I used the cute , handy and not to mention super economical mini distress ink pads [ festive berries, mustard seeds, mowed lawn] to ink the edges and center of my flower petals. Chose the shades of your ink to match the colors of your pattern paper/ stamped image. 4. Emboss / shape your flowers - if your dont have time to emboss just pinching / shaping with your hands is enough if your paper is malleable enough! 5. Layering flowers always looks cool! Unless you are making a pop up card and dont want very bulky flowers! 5. Make leaves in a similar way Punch / Die cut leaves from pattern paper - so much more interesting than plain colored paper Add veins using a fine liner pen or pencil Inking options : Ink in 2 shades of green, add a touch of brown or black to parts of the leaf!Dont ink uniformly-- a mottled appearance is more natural! Add caption Shape your leaves by simply pinching or embossing - mix up the elements on your project so that the curvature of the leaves are varied. 6.Glamorize by adding Shimmer to your flowers and leaves Wink of Stella We all love to match things be it our papers, flowers , ribbons etc in a project don't we...well I wanted my flowers to match the shimmering flowers of my pattern paper . Normal glitter would be too garish. I experimented with the Wink of Stella brushes and oh my they really are magical...hard to describe/ capture the beautiful shimmer they give a project. I used the clear Wink of stella and the brush just glides on so smoothly I really didnt understand all the fuss in craftland about " wink of stella" till I got to use it! The best feature is you can give a very subtle shimmer or really load on a golden hue to your projects by varying the pressure on the brush pen I hope you liked the card with the handmade flowers.Do tell me how it is. Products Dies Spellbinders Rose creations, Spellbinders Majestic labels 25, Spellbinders borderabilities, Heartfelt creations Classic Leaf, Heartfelt creations Sun kissed fleur [ used to make the buds], Sizzix Butterfly, Cheery Lynn lamp post, Cheery Lynn butterflies, Elizabeth Craft designs Happy Birthday,Elizabeth Craft designs Oval Accordion die Inks Distress Inks : festive berries, mustard seeds, mowed lawn, Versamark watermark Papers : DCWV Wink of Stella

Hi everyone, today I’m sharing a card style that’s been done before, however, I doubled it up again, so I’m calling it a Double D Accordion card. It’s a really easy style, a…