Tri-fold Birthday Card for Creative Creases #87

It's time for a new challenge over at the Creative Creases Challenge blog, and I thought I would make a fun fold card with a shaker panel to add a little extra fun to this birthday card! I hope you'll join the fun over at Creative Creases Challenge with a fun fold project of your own! Here's the link to the new challenge: Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #87 (secretstamper.com)

My youngest daughter just left on her first deployment last week, and her birthday is coming up next month, so I wanted to send out a card with plenty of time to get to her. I'm hoping to have her first care package mailed out this week. My oldest son was in the Marines, so I'm familiar with deployments, and something that always lifted my spirits was making up care packages. That helps me feel like I'm doing something tangible to help support and encourage my children.

The idea for this card started with Altenew's monthly color challenge combined with the daily challenges in the Altenew Fan Group FB page. The colors were from the monthly challenge and the use of splatter on some of the panels was from the FB group challenge to use splatter on a background. Then I also wanted to use some shaker pouches I had purchased a year ago. They are made to fit a slimline card, so I created the slimline shaker element for the inside of the card and then decided on a tri-fold card design for the rest of the card. I added some beads to the shaker pouch and then die cut Altenew's Craft-A-Flower: Cosmos and added that to the front of the panel. I die cut several layers of the sentiment die "hugs" from Altenew's Watercolor Roses set and adhered those together and then onto the shaker pouch. I adhered the shaker pouch to pink card stock and then adhered that to the inside of the yellow card base.

For the front panel of the card, I did some tone-on-tone stamping with Altenew's Crafted with Love stamp. Then I stamped and trimmed the "Sending you birthday wishes" sentiment strips using Altenew's Bewitching Rose set. 

For the next panel, I did tone-on-tone stamping using Altenew's Billowing Peonies stamp and adhered that to the yellow card base.

The next panel was also splattered with the same watercolors I used for the shaker panel. Using foam tape, I added Altenew's Watercolor Roses set that I stenciled and die cut. I added a stamped sentiment from Altenew's Proud of You set that I had die cut with a Gina Marie Designs stitched banner die. 

Then the panel with the shaker element is next, and finally the back of the card features Altenew's Bold Bouquet stamped as a background for the die cut "You" (also from Altenew) and the sentiments "are loved, are incredible, are cherished" from the Bold Bouquet stamp set. I adhered the orange panel to a layer of pink cardstock and then adhered that to the yellow card base. 

Close ups with labels of which Altenew products I used:

Craft-A-Flower: Cosmos layering die set with "Hugs" die from Watercolor Roses set

Billowing Peonies stamp set

Watercolor Roses (stencil and die set)

Sentiment from Proud of You stamp set (dies are from Gina Marie Designs)

Billowing Peonies stamped on the background and Wood Flower layering die set

Challenges I'm entering:

Easy DIY Greeting Card with Tropical Vibes (altenew.com): 

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (2/6; ends 8/12/24)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (2/3; ends 7/22/24)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG (ends at the end of the month)

simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/: Lots of layers (2/5; ends 7/22/24)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 7/31/24)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: Add sparkle (I have used sparkly butterflies on the back panel of the card and some sparkle on my die cut flowers from alcohol ink pearls and card stock I've sprayed with shimmer sprays) (1/5; ends 7/25/24)

Double D Challenges (daranddiane.blogspot.com): Basket full of posies (1/3; ends 7/31/24)

Creative Inspiration Challenges: ATG (1/2; ends at the end of the month)

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-2024-stencil-fun-challenge.html?m=1: ATG with a stencil (the yellow Watercolor Roses were made with a stencil from Altenew) (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

No more challenges.