Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com, FS662

This week’s Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers.com is Diana Gibson. See her gallery HERE.  The idea of the Featured Stamper Challenge is to look at the featured stamper’s gallery and choose a card to CASE (Copy And Share Everything) but to change at least three things to make it your own.  I chose THIS CARD  

because it is very pretty and I have enough similar items to use.

Here is my version of Diana's card:

The focal image that I used is a smaller stamp than what Diana used on hers. I chose to make mine a birthday card and I used a multi-step stamp set for the butterflies.  The focal image is layered onto a scrap piece of designer paper from Graphic 45’s Flutter collection. I don’t have any colored cardstock that matches the sentiment ink, so I used that ink to color the edges of white cardstock. Doing so tied the card together. I then layered the card front onto an A2 sized Kraft card base.

Inspired by a Card on Mixed Up Crafts - Z-Fold Pop Up Card

I saw a card on Mixed Up Crafts  and wanted to make one!   I changed mine up, though.

Instead of a Christmas card, I decided to use designer paper from Graphic 45’s Flutter collection.  I followed the instructions from Mixed Up Crafts for cutting & scoring the card base as well as cutting the larger panels.  But I didn’t like the open space left after making the slits horizontally across the two center sections. 

I cut a panel to fit underneath the slits, then scored it in half lengthwise. Since that panel was nearly the same size as the card base, I cut an additional set of the larger panels from the designer paper. I did not cut the smaller sections that the tutorial from Mixed Up crafts called for since they weren't necessary.  I also added a panel on the back side of the card to hide the seams and to give the card more stability.

I used a layering die set from Stampin’ Up to cut the accent piece on the front of the card. I only had two different sized dies and thought there was too much space between the two layers, so I cut another piece of designer paper with the larger die. I left it inside the die, then traced around the inner edge with a pencil. After that, I carefully trimmed away along the pencil line to make a slightly smaller die cut shape.

There is no stamping on this card as of now.  When I decide who is getting it & for what occasion, I’ll stamp a sentiment on the back panel.

Pictures, as promised!

Here are a couple of pictures of one of the most recent cards I made. This a a Panel Pull Out Card and is very easy to make.  It definitely has that WOW! factor that cardmakers are looking for!

The designer paper is from Graphic 45. The white base is Neenah. The sentiment is a stamp that I have had quite a while but I don't remember the name of the set it was in.

The one thing I learned from making this card was to use a lighter weight cardstock for the scored panel. A lighter weight cardstock will stay closed much better than the heavy weight card.