Just For You 4-Panel Z-Fold Card

I've recently started creating some cards to have on hand to include in my care packages for when my youngest daughter deploys later this year, and I thought it would be fun to make a fall-themed one with pumpkins on it. I used Lynn Dunn's 4-Panel Z-Fold Card design, and if you'd like the measurements and instructions for this 4-Panel Z-Fold Card, be sure to check out Lynn's tutorial here: 4-Panel Z Fold Card Design - Lynn Dunn - Stamptastic Designs LLC.

I chose some yellow and orange cardstock for the card base and some of the layers and trimmed and scored everything according to Lynn's measurements. Then I created the pumpkin panel using a technique from an Altenew Educator class called Magical Marker Techniques. I scribbled my Ohuhu alcohol ink markers onto some acetate and spritzed with isopropyl alcohol. Then I ink smooshed a white panel onto the alcohol ink to create a background. I then stamped Altenew's Pumpkin Patch stamp onto the panel and embossed it with the coordinating embossing folder. I cut the panel into strips to fit the layers of the card front and adhered them to the orange strips I had trimmed already. Then I added them to the front of the yellow card base. 

For the inside of the card, I used another technique from the Magical Marker Technique class. I scribbled with a few alcohol ink markers onto acetate and spritzed the scribbles with isopropyl alcohol again, but this time I used a paintbrush to pick up the colors and splatter them on a white panel. I used a few different yellows and oranges (the same colors I had used for the ink smooshing on the front of the card). Then I put the panel in the card without adhering it down just to see where I needed to stamp my "just for you" sentiment (also from the Pumpkin Patch set) so it could be seen when the card is closed. I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to the inside of the card.

For the fence, I used Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Rustic Charm set and trimmed the die cut a little so the fence wasn't as long. I used Altenew's Pretty Pumpkins Layering Die for the two pumpkins in front of the fence. I only used the bottom layers and the stem dies from the set, and I die cut them pumpkins out of metallic cardstock I had colored with alcohol inks. I finished the card by adding 3 black enamel dots from Altenew's Colorful Wonder Enamel Dots set. 

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When opened:

When closed:

Top view:

Here's a look at the process for creating the background where I've stamped and embossed the pumpkins. I scribbled with my alcohol ink markers onto acetate:

Then I sprayed them with isopropyl alcohol:

Then I smooshed them onto my cardstock. This is a look at the first smooshing, but I added more scribbles, more alcohol, and more smooshing the fill the panel:

Challenges I'm entering:

Creative Creases #106: I'm on the DT, so I'm entering just for fun and inspiration

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with optional twist of 4-legged friends (4/6; ends at the end of the month)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 2/10 for the challenge; ends 8/27/25)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

DL.ART : DL.ART August 2025 linky challenge: ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with option of Summer Things (5/8; ends at the end of the month)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with twist of Summer Fun (5/8; ends at the end of the month)

Paper Rocks Scissors: ATG with paper and/or scissors (I used scissors to cut my foam tape) (5/5; ends at the end of the month)

The Diva's that cut ....paper!: Z-fold cards (4/4; ends at the end of the month)

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite season and why: I love fall with the cooler temps and apple harvest and the fun of carving pumpkins and buying candy for trick-or-treaters (and sampling some myself, of course!) (3/3; ends 8/20/25)

Can You Handle The Pressure?: ATG with an embossing folder with optional twist of summer fun (I used the Pumpkin Patch 3D embossing folder) (1/3; ends 8/20/25)

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Garden Party: Anything in or From a Garden (1/5; ends 9/8/25)

Cardz 4 Galz: Create a Scene (2/3; ends 8/20/25)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (1/4; ends 8/26/25)
 

AECP homework for Magical Marker Techniques: Lesson 2: spritz and press technique (for the panel stamped with Pumpkin Patch on the front of the card and Lesson 4: scribbling alcohol markers onto acetate, adding isopropyl alcohol, picking up the liquid with a brush and stippling it onto cardstock (I did this for the panel on the inside of the card with yellow and orange markers)