Wacky Watercooler March Madness Blog Hop!

Welcome to another wonderful Wacky Watercooler Hop.

A group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators join together,
hoping to inspire you with fun crafting ideas and themes.
This is our March Madness hop, featuring Special Folds.
If you are following the hop line-up, this is the first blog. 

This is a circular hop, so you can start anywhere.

You may also be arriving from viewing Christine's

wonderful projects at dancinstamps.   
If you missed them, you can click on the "previous" icon,

 to check out Christine's very creative Special Fold ideas.

Sadly, I haven't been able to track down the inspiration

for my card above.  I believe that it was a SU demonstrator from

the UK or Australia. 

I love the SAB Flowering Fields set and coordinating

Wildflower Fields DSP on page 12 of the SAB brochure.

For this project, I stamped the various flowers and colored

 with colors from the DSP pack.  I highlighted the 

Hello Honey areas with the Gold Wink of Stella Glitter Brush.

 The fold was achieved by folding a piece of card stock

and placing it in the largest framelit of the Ovals Collection

Framelits (on page 173), positioning it so that the fold was

not cut through. The oval with the images was attached to that, so that all of the scallops around the edge would be complete.


This combination was fit to the front of the card.
I had to make the card slightly narrower (4"), so that the
scalloped edge could swing past the outside edge of the card.
(Sorry if this makes no sense.  I really did this seat-of-my-pants).
It is set up so that the event/sentiment can be added inside this fold.

  

My second card was inspired by http://agnieszka-scrappassion.blogspot.com.  

I used the Timeless Elegance DSP (p 143) to decorate a 4x4

card that opens at the bottom.  The insert pulls out via

the 5/8" Gold Satin ribbon tab.  I used a gold brad to hold the fold

in place, because 3 layers made it very hard to bend and 

fasten with adhesive.   More 5/8" Gold Satin ribbon (p 159)
was used to form a bow around the project, with an Antique Brad
(p 160) attached.

It's hard to tell, but I did cut out extra flowers and layer
them on the card insert, to give it more dimension.
I think that this would a neat format to use to make place cards,
with the insert containing the menu for the event.

This is another card featuring the Wildflower Fields DSP 

on page 12.  I used the banner from the Circle Card Thinlits

as a layer for the sentiment, and the card closure.

Pretty quick card, with a brad holding it closed. 

Thank you for looking at my offerings!
Now please hop on over to Deb's site to enjoy her
Wacky Watercooler March Madness projects.
She does a wonderful job and you won't want to miss them!



You can also go to the Blog Hop Home, to

check out all of the sites hopping this evening.
You are sure to see some great crafting ideas!