Twisted Gatefold Birthday Card

My mother-in-law's birthday is at the end of the month, and I wanted to make a pretty birthday card to give her this weekend when she and my father-in-law and several of our children and their families gather for a birthday dinner to celebrate together. I wanted to use my new Stampin' Up! stamp sets: Beautifully Happy and Framed Florets, so I designed a card to feature them. Beautifully Happy is part of Stampin' Up's Sale-A-Bration catalog. If you spend at least $50 on SU! products from now until Feb. 28, you can choose from an array of stamps and designer papers in the Sale-A-Bration catalog as free gifts. Beautifully Happy has stamps for both the outline and the inside of the flowers and leaves (and even the center of the flowers!). Here's a link to the Sale-A-Bration catalog if you are interested in making an order: Sale-A-Bration (stampinup.com). 

I found the idea for this twisted gatefold card design here: Twisted Gatefold Cards [Rain or Shine Series #8 & 9] | Stampin Up (stampwithtami.com). I'm so grateful for card designers who post instructions for making fun fold cards! I took Tami's measurements and created a cut file using my Silhouette Design Studio software and then resized the card base and layers slightly so that I could fit 2 card bases on my virtual mat. I made the second card I cut from this paper into a get well card that I'll feature on my next blog post. 

I cut all the layers and adhered them and then stamped and fussy cut all the flowers and then added the sentiments and some gems. 

Closed: 

Partially open:

Fully open:

Close up of the flowers with gems in the centers:

Close up of the inside sentiment (the "Celebrate" and "Wishes for a beautiful birthday" sentiments as well as the die that cut the frame around the birthday sentiment all come from  SU!'s Framed Florets bundle):

The back of the card:

Challenges I'm entering:

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #49 (secretstamper.com): ATG with a fun fold (ends Feb. 3)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; ends Feb. 1)

little red wagon (lilredwagon.blogspot.com): Birthday (ends Feb. 1)

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (1/5; ends Feb. 1)

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge: Beautiful Blooms (1/5; ends Jan. 30)

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Inspiring creativity 8-ways each week: Fancy fold, flowers, free (1/2; ends Feb. 2)

Try Stampin' On Tuesday (trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com): I used layering (ends Feb. 7)

AAA Birthday: Anything birthday goes (ends Jan. 31)

{Cupcake Inspirations}:Polkadots (the yellow card stock I used has polka dots) (1/3; ends Feb. 3)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges**********: Rules & Guidelines (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com) ATG (3/3; ends Jan. 30) C10
 

No more challenges