STAMPIN FRIENDS FEBRUARY 2023 fancy folds blog hop

Welcome to our Stampin Friends February blog hop. Today we are sharing fancy fold cards! A fancy fold doesn't have to be difficult or intimidating. Simply scoring and folding different, can have a fancy and fun affect!!! SO if you have seen all those fancy folds and thought, that seems too hard, give one of ours a try and you will see how easy they can really be.  And there's more, we have included a bonus 3-d project!!!
I hope you are joining me from Maureen Rauchfuss blog. Her projects were amazing!!!!! Take a look at what I've made, leave a comment and hop on over to Tiziana Milano's! A full list of blogs is located at the end of this post.

How cute is the Stampin Up Suite, Rain or Shine?? Adorable!!!! I had to use it for my projects.  I've made z-fold cards before as a horizontal layout, so I decided to make it vertical. Same concept. I liked when I finished the card and put it all together, because it is vertical, it kind of pops up. 
For the card and box I used Balmy Blue and Mango Melody cardstock and layered the Rain or Shine Specialty Designer Series Paper.
​From the Playing in the Rain stamps and dies, I stamped the Fox, Turtle, Flowers and Puddles. Then I colored them using Stampin Blends in Mango Melody, Granny Apple Green, Flirty Flamingo, Balmy Blue and the Medium and Dark Tone.  I used the dies to cut them all out and I also cut out the fence in Basic White. I used my Basic Black Stampin Write Marker and just colored over the words Rainy Day and stamped down. I fussy cut around the words. 

DO the same with the other half of the words "are better with you" I trimmed them smaller and then cut each word out separately.
So for the cardbase, start with the Balmy Blue  4 1/2x11 score on the 11 side at 2 3/4 and 5 1/2
For the z-fold layer in Mango Melody 2 3/4x10 score on the 10 side at 4 3/4 and 7 1/2
Fold both in half and then fold opposite on the smaller score line. Before attaching to each other, we are going to add the layers. On the cardbase, you need 2 pieces of DSP both cut at 2 1/2x4 and 1 at 5 1/4x 4.  For the z-fold layers, you need 1 of each 4 1/2x 2 1/2 and  2 12x2 1/2 and 2 1/2x 2 1/4  

Now it's time to assemble. As you can see, I chose DSP with the rain and blue skies and flowers. I made the top be the rainy part and the bottom be the sunny part. Start with the base and add the DSP, the your will need to fold the z-fold layer and adhere ontop, making sure when the card is closed, nothing over hangs. You can see in the picture to the left how, it sits about 1/4-1/2 from the top and around an inch from the bottom.  
Add the DSP and all the images we colored and diecutted out
How stinkin' cut!!! I am so happy with how this card came out! It was so fun designing as I went along!

Now for the box, I love simple boxes that can be adapted for so many different uses and designs. You can make and decorate several and fold-it flat until you are ready to fill! Or just make a bunch in different colors and then decorate to match a theme when you need a box.  For today's I kept the colors the same! I chose the 3rd animal, the bunny. 

The overall size of the box is 3 3/4 lx 2 3/4 w x 1 1/4 d
You will need cardstock that measures.8 1/2 x7 
On the 8 1/2 side score at 1 1/4, 4, 5 1/4, and 7
On the 7 side score at 1 1/4, 5  and 6 1/4
Fold on the scores and burnish with a bone folder to have a nice crisp fold. 
You will need to trim a little bit off. The top of the box is the section on the  8 1/2 side that has the 2 score sections. Refer to the pictures below. Cut up on the score lines to second line. Now, notch the first section (just trim a little angle on each side of the tab this will let the box close easy. Then moving to the right, cut out that whole section, notch out the next and leave the whole section together, and just round the top corners. The get rid of the skinny little section, an add a little angle.

On the bottom, you need to cut up to the score line, and notch out the 2 smaller tabs. And remove the skinny section and add and angle. I added sticky strip to all the sections that will need adhesive to assemble. The front of the box is the large section that has the section on the top with the rounded corners, so you could decorate the side before you assemble. But if you prefer, it's just as eas​y to decorate when it's made.

The DSP image I chose, had the animals holding umbrellas. I like the design, but did not really need the animal that was visible, so I cut a piece of Mango Melody about 1 1/4 x 2 1/4 and covered the section.  I stamped the bunny and colored him in with the Stampin Blends in Mango Melody, the water in Night of Navy and Balmy Blue. and the clouds and diecutted them out. Next I colored the word Rainy and stamped into the cloud, I will admit this took a couple of tries for it to be in the right position. The I repeated with the word Day. I didn't realize when the bunny is diecutting, the puddle is cut off, so I fussy cut the puddle out and lined it up to the foot.

I added the bunny and clouds to the box using dimesionals.  This box can be filled with travel tissues, hand sanitizer, mini lotions and lip balms, jewelry or candy or anything else you can think of!!!!!

I hope you enjoyed the projects that I have shared with you today! Be sure to leave me a comment! 
And hop on over to Tiziana Milano's hop and check out her Fancy Fold card and project!!!!

Thank you for hoppin along today!!!
Happy Stampin
​Steph