Hope in the Lord Fun Fold for Creative Creases #90

It's time for a new challenge on the Creative Creases Challenge blog, and I'm honored to be a guest designer again. Hope you can join us with your fun fold projects! Here's the link: https://wp.me/p4bS0N-bWp. 

For my fun fold card today, I wanted to do another card for my youngest daughter who is currently deployed in the Middle East. I like to include special cards in all the packages I send her. So far I've sent 8 packages and am working on package number 9 this week. 

For the card design, I followed the instructions from an Altenew YouTube short here: Part 2 of unique card folds you can try! (youtube.com). I used Altenew's Craft-A-Flower: Butterfly Bush layering die set for the front of the card. I die cut the layers out of some watercolor papers I had colored with sprays and watercolors. Then I die cut the layers a second time out of pink fun foam and adhered everything together. I die cut a stem using some watercolor cardstock I had watercolored with distress inks. 

The verse on the front of the card comes from Word Art Wednesday here: Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes - Weeks #655-656. I imported it to my Silhouette Design Studio software, sized it up, changed the color to pink, and did a print and cut of it. 

For the inside of the card, I did some tone-on-tone stamping using SU!'s retired Butterfly Brilliance stamp on a die cut panel. Butterfly Brilliance is my favorite butterfly-themed stamp and die set, and I use it frequently! Once I had stamped the background onto the panel, I added the "love and hugs" sentiment from Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Always Sunshine set and adhered the panel to the inside of the card, taking card to line it up inside the framed area. I added a few pink translucent drops to embellish the panel. 

For the back of the card, I added a blue die cut rectangle and then die cut a yellow rectangle that I stamped the Butterfly Brilliance background onto using tone-on-tone stamping again. Then I die cut a small square and stamped the "You are cherished" sentiment from Altenew's Bold Bouquet. 

I want to add a link to my friend Debbie Mageed's list of retired Stampin' Up products here, too. Take a look because she's offering great deals on lovely bundles: My 2024 Secret Sale - Google Docs

Side view:

Back of the card:

Top view:

Inside the card:

Challenges I'm entering: 

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/10; ends 9/12/24)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with the optional twist of Summer Vacation (3/4; ends at the end of the month)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (2/5; ends 9/5/24)

Crafty Gals Corner (craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com): ATG with twist of use an embossing folder (2/3; ends 9/9/24)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 9/4/24)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with optional twist of diamonds, gold, and pearls (ends at the end of the month)

 ****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (2/3; ends 9/2/24) C10

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG (2/3; ends 9/1/24)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (3/6; ends 9/12/24)

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG with a twist of easy living (ends at the end of the month)

No more challenges.