Cascading Pleats Birthday Card for Creative Creases #83

It's time for a new challenge on the Creative Creases blog where it's always Anything Goes with a Fun Fold project! If you'd like to join the fun, here's the link: Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #83 (secretstamper.com)

For my Guest Design card this time, I finally made a Cascading Pleats card. I've been wanting to try this fold for quite some time, and I was surprised at how easy it was! It's a great fold if you'd like to show off pretty pattern paper as there are lots of panels to decorate. Here's a link to a video by Tami White if you'd like to try out this fold: (5) 🔴 #FancyFoldCards: Make Stunning Cascading Pleats with Effortless Ease! - YouTube

After making the card base, I adhered the pattern paper panels to the base and set about stamping several flowers and leaves from Altenew's Mini Delight: Wild Geranium stamp set. I used ink colors that matched the patter paper (it's double-sided paper with lots of pretty spring colors on the floral side, so it was easy to choose some matching inks). I should mention that when I'm stamping multiple images like in this case, I like to die cut the shapes first and create a jig to put in my MISTI so I can quickly stamp lots of the same image in one sitting by die cutting the shapes and then fitting them into the jig to align them perfectly each time. I die cut 24 flowers and 12 leaves, so I have some extras that I went ahead and stamped for a future project. 

I stamped a few sentiments onto the panels of the card and stamped a large floral image (from Altenew's Dear Dahlias set) on the back using a tone-on-tone light lilac ink so my "Celebrate" (from SU!'s Share  A Milkshake set) would show nicely. I popped the flowers up using foam tape for dimension and added a few blue and purple gems to embellish the card. Finally, I added some purple Nuvo drops to the back in all the flower centers. 

Close up of the sentiment and Nuvo drops: 

 Challenges I'm entering: 

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG (1/2; ends 5/26/24) DT Pick 6/1/24

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 6/5/24)

We Love Stamping: Vintage or ATG (3/3; ends 5/29/24)

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG (ends at the end of the month)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 5/28/24)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG (ends at the end of the month) Rising Star Pick Week 3

Double Trouble Paper Crafting (doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com): Thing 1: Birthday or newborn category; Thing 3: GD card for Creative Creases entered in Inspiration Station, The Paper Fun Day, and Beautiful Blossoms

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (ends 6/15/24)

Inspiration Station (inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com): Photo prompt contains florals as the theme, and my card is a floral card (ends at the end of the month)

The Paper Funday Challenges: Flower Shoppe (1/4; ends at the end of the month)

Allsorts challenge blog: ATG Happy 15th anniversary! (2/3 ends 5/24/24)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 5/30/24)