Double Triangle Fold with the Fancy Fold Blog Hop team

We are almost through April April and it is time for another hop with the Fancy Folds Team. You may have come from Teresa's page, welcome, she makes beautiful cards.

This month we are making the Double Triangle Fold and I have used this Splitcoaststampers' video tutorial by Dawn Olchefske. 

The tutorial is easy to follow. You cut the paper in half diagonally and get 2 cards, depending on which way you cut you get different openings of the card. The cutting can be difficult to do depending on your trimmer, but it can be done with scissors.

When I first set out to create for this hop I had not yet received my pre-order from Stampin' Up! containing all the new 2022-24 in-colours and new stamp sets which were available on pre-order for demonstrators, so used an old stamp set. I do love this set, Forever Fern, and the matching dies, Forever Flourishing. Both of these will carry over to the new catalogue going live on 3 May 2022.

I used a Basic White card base and  Beauty of the Earth designer series paper, which is part of the Beauty of the Earth suite. This paper is still available in Australia at a great discount, so get in quick before it is discontinued or sells out.

I cut the designer series paper in a rectangle 1/4" smaller than the standard card front, and cut it in half diagonally.

I stamped some of the images from the stamp set in Night of Navy, Old Olive and Mossy Meadow. I cut these out with the matching dies. I also die cut 2 other pieces in Night of Navy cardstock, these dies does not match any stamps in the set. I clustered the leaf images together and finished off with a little bow with twine from the Flowers for Every Season ribbon pack. This twine is made up of Misty Moonlight and White twine twisted with a silver tread.

I finished the card off with a bit of ink flicked on with Stampin' Write Markers in the same colours as i stamped.

 

My pre-order finally arrived and I thought I would make another card, just so I could have a play with the new in-colours.

I again used a Basic White card base. I then layered on half the card with the new colour Starry Sky and Parakeet Party designer series paper. These colours are VERY bright in person.

I used the new stamp set Bottled Happiness (available 3 May 2022) and stamped the bottle in Starry Sky ink. I stamped the floral image in Orchid Oasis and Parakeet Party. This is a two-step Photopolymer stamp set and easy to line up. There is a punch to match the bottle image, but I don't have this yet, so I fussy cut the bottle as well as the flower image.

I stamped the flower image again and cut a couple of extra flowers out and popped these up with dimensionals for a bit extra interest.

Again I flicked some ink on the white card, this time Starry Sky.

I was great having a play with these new colours. I really like them all, but together they are very bright. I think I might need to tone them down a bit with some neutrals, when using them, but they are fun.

There are still great discounts to be had on the retirement/last change list for the 2021-22 annual catalogue, check these out here.

The current hostcode is Q4CNNRSK, so make sure to use this for a little gift from me.

And if you have shopped with me this last year, you will be getting a complimentary catalogue as soon as I have them. If you haven't shopped with me before and are in Australia, let me know and I will get one to you. 

I hope you enjoyed today's post and that you continue the hop, to see what Gina has come up with this month. Please leave a comment below so I know you were here.