FREE fancy paperfolding pattern for YOU -

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Stamp up Dizzy Mare Birthday Tree and colour in flowers.

Mat and layer image using My MatMate – for tutorial go to My MatMate product page.

Punch daisies from white cardstock and colour edges with fuchsia inkpad.

Punch six circles from spotty cardstock and use for flower centres and image corners.

This cute little greeting card made from a piece of A5 cardstock

Fold in half to create half-fold square card (Groove 5 on M&F).

Push the diagonal folds inwards to create a teabag-type fold.

Stamp sentiment in square section.

Love Love Love...

Place short edge to Base Bar of M&F scoreboard and score groove 2.

Emboss the short flap. I used a Cuttlebug folder.

Stamp up 3 Dizzy Mare Layered Hearts and emboss with Elegant Silver embossing powder.

Stamp and emboss 3 sets of the small hearts from the main stamp
– cut around and adhere to main heart using foam pads.
Adhere to front opening edge using foam pads.

Cut a piece of your chosen contrast to fit inside large panel.

Emboss edges of contrast using My Matmate or
by placing each edge on a scoreboard groove and scoring down.

Adhere directly to inside of card.

Cut a piece of main cardstock to fit on top of contrast to leave a border showing all around.

Stamp up Dizzy Mare’s Love in top left.

Cut a heart aperture as shown – use a piece of scrap to make a suitable size template.

Place aperture onto scrap paper and draw around.
Draw lines to create paper-folding design pattern.
You can use our free pattern as a guide (click on image below to download) or you can use a paper-folding design of your own choice.

Decorate the finished heart.

Wrap ribbon around the card and secure on the back.

Tie additional ribbon bow to front.

Adhere finished piece directly to main card.

Try it in colour-ways of your choice.

Try a d écoupaged image in place of the paper-folded heart…

and funky paper for the front instead of embossing…

Dangle embellishments from a ribbon along the fold –

What are you waiting for?

… GO!

Dizzy Maison

This quirky card shape (you know I love ‘quirky’) was inspired by the fabby challenge blog...

"Dans ma maison il y a…" so credit to you – and thank you for the inspiration.

This shape is quick and easy to make using the M&F scoreboard:

Fold a piece of A4 cardstock in half

Cut down to square shape by placing short edge to Base Bar, mark groove 6 and cut off excess.

For the shape:

Place Fold to Base Bar and mark groove 4 on top opening edge.

Rotate card to place Fold to top of board as shown and mark groove 4 on Fold edge and opening edge.

Line up marks on trimmer and cut off the excess.

Decorate using Dizzy Mare’s Happy Returns Flower Pot and small Silhouette Flower stamps.

The Flower Pot image was stamped directly onto the card. The flowers were stamped again onto cerise cardstock and cut out then adhered to original image.

A narrow strip of cerise cardstock was embossed using Cuttlebug folder and adhered near to bottom edge.
The small Silhouette flowers were stamped then punched out with small circle punch and adhered to black strip using foam pads. Gems were added to flower centres.

Finally dots and dashes were drawn around edges of card using black glitter Sakura pen.

Cut down a piece of A4 cardstock to create a square base card.
Emboss the right-hand side with Swiss Dots.
Note where the ribbon is to lie then score 4 lines (using M&F board grooves) down the left-hand side - two each side of the ribbon.
Wrap the brown ribbon around card and secure with a knot.
Tie a piece of champagne ribbon around brown knot and tie.
Top with gemstone - I used blue to match Ginger's eyes.
Print and layer ribbon onto black and attach near bottom edge of card.
Print and assemble image and attach.

Cut insert to fit.
Punch side edges.
Stamp sentiment and Dizzy Daisies.

Use off-cut to create gift-tag.
Fold in half. Round off opening edge.
Stamp Dizzy Daisies in Sepia, Black and Gold.
Punch hole and thread with ribbons and decorate with gems.

- Cut pieces of cardstock for the size covers you require.

- The front cover of our sample has all four edges soft embossed using MY MatMate then was smudged with pink chalks.
- A heart shaped aperture was cut and fancy paper folding carried out with pretty foil papers.
(Free paperfolding pattern - click on image below to download).

Left side edge was scored using groove 1 of M&F board to form 'folded spine' and two holes punched to take the ribbons.
- A piece of cardstock was adhered to the back to hide the paperfolding.

- Cut as many pages for the album as you require.
- Our first page was stamped using a Dizzy Daisy stamp and Linn Yates' Bridal Gown sentiment.

- The next page was stamped with Linn's Raise a Toast sentiment, Dizzy Mare's Love stamp and Clarity's feather.
- Pages were lined up with covers and holes punched at left side edge.
- Pretty ribbons threaded through and tied to complete the project.
This album has so many potential uses - just follow your imagination...

Coppernob and the Cuttlebug!

This snowy greetings card combines Cuttlebug folders with
Coppernob's IMP Scoring board and Let it Snow Tree stamp

- Score and fold A4 cardstock in half.
- Emboss top two thirds of card front using faux-stitching lines from our IMP scoringboard.

- Emboss a piece of acetate with Swiss Dots to fit bottom third of card front.
- Adhere to card using narrow double-sided tape along edge that will be hidden by picture.
- Apply narrow peel off along top edge of acetate.

(faux-stitching detail using IMP board)

- Die cut 3 Cuttlebug snowflakes from white 'Pillars of Light' cardstock and adhere as shown. A dot of silicone or dimensional magic can be used under bottom right snowflake to anchor the acetate more if you wish.

- Print image of your choice and pass through JigSaw Cuttlebug folder. Use corner rounder to round the 4 corner pieces before assembling.
- Cut piece of mirri board for matting and layering allowing for a border all around. Emboss part of the mirri with the Snowflake folder. Round off corners.
- Adhere jigsaw to mirri and attach to card as shown using foam pads.

- Cut insert paper and punch edges with border punch.
- Stamp up Dizzy Mare 'Let it Snow Tree' and fix inside card.

GIRLY BIRTHDAY WISHES

I saw this lovely card shape in the Stampin Up! Catalogue

and was immediately inspired

– so whoever's idea it was… thank you so much

for sharing (and I did buy some stamps from the catalogue!)

I wondered if this great shape would suit our new

Dizzy Mare Flower Pot stamp… and I rather think it did.

Score and Half-fold a sheet of A4 cardstock, then cut it down to make a
card 17cms deep.

Make a mark on front top edge 5½cms from side opening edge.

Make a 7cms vertical cut down from mark.

Fold back and flatten ‘reveals’ – if your cardstock is thick, score the folds before turning back.

Decorate front of card as required.

(Green scalloped edge embossed using Coppernob's MY MatMate)

Cut a tag 14cms x 9cms and decorate.
Punch a hole in the top and add ribbons.
Adhere tag inside card so it is pleasing from the front when the card is closed. Tag exceeds top edge by 3½ - 4cms.

Stamps used: Dizzy Mare Flower Pot

Impression Obsession – Sun

MY MatMate

All available from this website - see relevant product pages.

Fancy Fold Hearts

This little design uses the free downloadable pattern from our competition and the double heart design from Keepsake's Celebration board.

To resize the heart pattern - go to Print Preview and select 150%, then Print.
You could then pop it in the scanner and use the distort tool to adjust it to fit the aperture exactly - but I just taped it centrally within the aperture and worked the top sections then moved the pattern up a little so there were 6 sections showing to work vertically. Work the full heart first. As the margin around the edge is narrow in places it's useful to use a glue stick around the edge to hold your papers. A piece of spare cardstock was adhered to the back of the worked piece to neaten.

If you enjoy paper-folding check out our Fancy That! Couture Collection and Christmas Bauble Template with Pattern CD ROM

download pattern by clicking on image below

Diamond - Topped Card

We have had lots of requests for the instructions for this fun shaped card since it first appeared in our gallery some months ago.
How to achieve this clever design using our M&F scoreboard was devised by our great friend and clever card-maker,
Linn Yates of West Midlands.

Step-by-step...

Score and fold a piece of A4 cardstock in half lengthwise, ensure long edges meet, as a ‘lead-in’ edge is not required on this design.

Open card flat and place a short edge to the Base Bar of M&F scoreboard. Score groove 5. Fold and flatten crease.

Place the fold edge against the Base Bar.

Open up card, hold firmly in place and score groove 1 on inside of card.
(If you are right-handed you may find it easier to rotate the M&F to have Base Bar on your Left to do this step).

Also pencil mark groove 3 on side edges of card as shown.

Score from the pencil marks to centre of scored line 1 as indicated.

Carefully Mountain-fold both of these diagonal scored lines. (Easier done by turning the card over and pressing your finger against the scored line as you fold it up.)

Open up card and begin folding into the card shape - have inside of card facing up - Mountain-fold scored line 1 and Valley-fold scored line 5.

Keep these two folds in place and fold the card in half along original half-fold crease.

Finally, hold the top open-edge corners firmly and push down to fold the diagonals downwards and create the diamond-top effect.

Ok – now we’ve given you the instructions – send us piccies of your 'makes' to include in our gallery!