Welcome to Funky Folds Blog Hop. We are a group of like-minded paper crafters who love to make cards with funky folds. Funky actually means "modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way"... so we are featuring cards that are not your usual rectangle/square portrait or landscape style. Think 'easel', 'pop-up', 'gatefold', 'z-fold', 'shaped' or 3D cards etc. The list is endless.
All Blog Hops have an 'anything goes' theme using any type of 'funky' card fold and I've made a diorama card featuring a collection of sneak peek products from the 2024 Holiday Catalogue coming out later this year. Its a lovely collection called Nests of Winter, and although its in the Holiday Catty it really can be used for a lot of different events. The DSP has lots of birds and birch trees; the stamp and die bundle has a great frame die that creates the fronds you can see in my card. It was this that inspired me to make a diorama card.
You can see I have used the die to cut the front of the card, and two additional panels that sit within it to create the layers of leaves. To get the sense you are looking in between the trees I also used a piece of the bigger print birch tree on the background and used the negative of the die to sponge additional leaves on the background. I also added some of the birds fussy cut from the DSP on each of the layers as well as the front of the card. The final piece of DSP has lots of little birds and I cut the opening using my trimmer, skipping where the little birds overlapped it and then fussy cut them out. It is hard to get the feel of this card from photographs, its hard to capture the depth this creates.
If you love to make cards with creative folds and would like to join in with our monthly Funky Folds Blog Hop, you are welcome to head on over to our community group on Facebook to be part of the fun.
Happy Stamping
Monique
Very clever fold, thanks for sharing
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