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Stylish Sketches Z-Fold Fox Card

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Stylish Sketches Z-Fold Fox Card

This Stylish Sketches Stamp Set is one that will make you look like an artist by simply stamping with the fox or geese stamps. Just stamp one of the sketchy-looking images and color in if you like! Maybe the best part is that you can earn this stamp set FREE during Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration until August 31 with a $50 purchase!

This stamp set appealed to me because my son likes foxes (for some reason!). He has seen some out in the wild. This card is easy to make but makes a great presentation because it is a Z-Fold card. It may look extra-special and sound extra-special but all you have to do is fold back the front of the card on itself! That’s how easy Z-Fold cards are! That’s the basic instruction, anyway, then you can stamp the panels or add designer paper.

This card is cut just like a regular card base at 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Score at 4 1/4″ for the fold to form the card. Now on the front of the card, score at 2 1/8″, which is half of the 4 1/4″ front. Fold back on the score line so you have a z-shape. This card base is Garden Green and the folded back panel on the front is stamped in Garden Green ink with leaves in the Stylish Sketches Stamp Set.

The fox is stamped on a 3″ x 3 1/2″ piece of Basic White cardstock. The fox is stamped in Memento Ink. I colored in with Watercolor Pencils and blended in a little bit with a Blender Pen. This just smooths out the coloring a little bit. I also colored in the sky and some grass very lightly and in a scribble fashion just to lay down some color to ground the fox and give him a place to run. The greeting is stamped in Garden Green and is in the Celebrating You Stamp Set. This fox piece is then layered on a piece of So Saffron Cardstock, 3 1/4″ x 3 3/4″.

For the inside of the card, since the Garden Green is a rather dark color for stamping a greeting or writing a message, I cut out another piece of Basic White, the same size as the fox piece on the front. I stamped some leaves in the corners and also around the edge of the inside of the card. When you stamp randomly like that, turn your stamp so it goes different ways.

Now for the only tricky part. You want to place that Basic White piece so it will be completely under the front panel and not show from underneath. Adhere the fox piece and layer to the folded panel on the front by only putting adhesive on the left side to adhere to the folded panel and not the inside of the card! Then open the card, put adhesive on the back of the message piece of cardstock, and lay it face down on the inside of the left side of the card, lining it up behind the yellow portion you can see. Then fold over the back panel of the card so that it adheres to the message panel and will be perfectly placed behind that front panel. Check out the photo of the opened-up z-fold card and inside below.

Stylish Sketches Z-Fold Fox Card open

That’s all there is to making this Stylish Sketches Z-Fold Fox Card which would make a great masculine card for a birthday or any occasion. Here is another regular card using the fox stamp and coloring in with Stampin’ Blends. It’s a fun stamp to work with as your creative juices start flowing! Sale-A-Bration ends in just two weeks so don’t miss out on getting some free product with every $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase!

Stylish Sketches Duck Card

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Stylish Sketches Duck Card

I’m not sure if these are ducks or geese on this Stylish Sketches Duck Card so you can think of them as whatever you like! I thought they were geese, then I saw several stampers calling them ducks! Whatever they are, you can get this Stylish Sketches stamp set FREE during Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration! With every $50 purchase of Stampin’ Up! products, you can choose a free Sale-A-Bration product. Not only do we have some remaining ones in the Sale-A-Bration brochure, but now we have some extra annual catalog products we can choose from!

This card is made with a card base of Soft Suede cardstock and is layered with another Sale-A-Bration free product with a $50 purchase. It’s the Silver & Gold 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. There are 24 sheets, 12 each of 2 designs. Half have silver foil in stripes or polka dots and the other half have gold. My paper is the gold stripe but I added some Stampin’ Blends stripes! I used Pool Party, Granny Apple Green, and Soft Suede. I drew them in just very casually and not carefully! Stampin’ Up! had a video showing ways to add more to this paper.

The ducks/geese were stamped in Memento Black on Basic White and colored in with Stampin’ Blends. Then it was die cut with one of the circles in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I also cut out a Soft Suede circle to be a layer underneath. This piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is stamped in Soft Suede ink from the Lovely You Stamp Set. This is layered on the smallest scalloped rectangle die from the Scalloped Contours Dies. This would make a good masculine birthday card or Father’s Day.

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Stylish Sketches Fox Card

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Stylish Sketches Fox Card

Happy August! August means one more month of Sale-A-Bration at Stampin’ Up! so I thought I would post this Stylish Sketches Fox Card made with a FREE Sale-A-Bration stamp set. There are a few things sold out in Sale-A-Bration choices but I expect to hear something about that today or tomorrow so stay tuned.

I wasn’t quite sure what to do with this fox, but I know my son likes foxes so I’m sure I can send this card to him! I initially thought there isn’t much to this Stylish Sketches Stamp Set, so maybe I should make the stamped area a little smaller. This stamp set has “sketches” of the fox, two geese, leaves, and if you happen to notice, some tiny dots that are good for texture for the ground, perhaps.

The card base is Cajun Craze and after working on the card for a while, and noticing those tiny dots, I decided to stamp those around the border on the card base. The front of the card is stamped on Basic White and layered on Granny Apple Green cardstock.

The Basic White piece is 4 1/4″ x 3″. The Granny Apple Green layer is 4 1/2″ x 3 1/4″. That makes for a smaller stamped area for the fox and a wider border on the card base. The fox is stamped in Memento ink and colored in with Light and Dark Cajun Craze Stampin’ Blends. The grass on the stamp plus the area underneath is all colored with Light and Dark Granny Apple Green Blends, plus stamped with those little dots in green also. I colored around the fox with Light Pool Party Blend marker to resemble the sky. There is nothing artistic about it, I just scribbled back and forth! It matches the “sketchiness” of the way the fox was drawn! I felt it still needed something, so I stamped the bundle of leaves in Granny Apple Green ink and colored it very lightly with ink and a Blender pen. I wanted the leaves up there in the corner to add a little something to the picture but be very subtle.

For a greeting, I decided to tie around a piece of Linen Thread underneath the fox, two times around the Basic White piece, and tied on a greeting. Obviously, I needed a small greeting and I found one in the Cup of Tea Stamp Set. I stamped the little tag shape and the greeting, then just cut around the tag rather than diecut it. I put a Stampin’ Dimensional underneath it to hold it in place and face up.

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