Heather Guerrero, Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator: Bird Banter

UPDATE - I decided to play along with the Inspire. Create.Challenge this month and enter this card. Their theme is animals and I thought this fit in well....go check out their blog and all of their creative design team members!!

Today I am going to share this cute card that I made for my team swaps next month...our theme is birthday and I had this Bird Banter stamp set that I really wanted to play with. The team I am part of is a wonderful group of talented stampers that never fails to disappoint with their swap cards. I really wanted something with some "WOW" factor, so I decided to try the Z-Fold card. Such an easy fun fold I have a feeling that I will be using often.

To make this card I cut the Lemon Lime card stock lengthwise at 4 1/4", and then scored at 5 1/2" and 2 3/4". Fold in half on the 5 1/2" score and then fold the paper back on itself at 2 3/4". Voila! Z-Fold....easy peasy! The paper size on the front panel is cut to 2 1/2" x 4" in the Bubbles and Fizz Designer Series Paper. This is a Sale-A-Bration item that you can earn with a $50 purchase. But really you can use any of your favorite designer series paper. I cut a piece of watercolor paper with the largest Stitched Framelit circle and did a watercolor wash using the Bermuda Bay ink pad and an aquapainter. The Parrot was stamped on whisper white with the Tuxedo Black ink pad and colored with the Stampin' Blends. I layered the square window (cut with the Layering Squares in Calypso Coral), the watercolored circle, a cute branch cut from the Petal Passion thinlets, some gold metallic thread and the cute parrot. I attached all of this to the from panel with some tombow glue. I let it hang over the side for a fun effect.

The inside of the card is just another piece of designer series paper cut to 4" x 2 3/4" adhered to the right side of the large panel of the card and then I cut a piece of whisper white 4" x 2 1/2" for the hidden sentiment and placed that to the left. The sentiment on the right was just stamped in Bermuda Bay onto a scrap whisper white and placed with dimensionals.....it's actually a pretty easy card! I hope you give it a try!

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