Happy 30th Birthday Abby!

Today is my daughter Abby's 30th birthday! Seems just like yesterday she was born! Abby weighed only 5 lbs when she was born...a wee bit early, but she has stayed tiny all her life. She squeeeeaaks in at just below 4 foot 9 inches. By our state laws...she should still be in a childs booster seat LOL! She has been a little spitfire from the day she was born and never grew out of it LOL! Happy Birthday Sweetums!

Now on to this fun fold card! I totally copied if from a card that I actually stole borrowed from my oldest daughter  when "little" Luke was born. She knew I would have to give it a try...she said so when she showed it to me with a grin! Don't worry Lukey...Gwamma will give your card back now!

This is my first attempt at making this fun fold, so I tried to photograph as I went along. Here it is opened up!

Here is what you will need: I piece of each size

Cardstock
5 x 12
5 x 6 (I used double sided dp to photograph for you)
3/4 x 6 cream strip
glue dots

Score this piece at 2.5 and 5 inches

fold over at the 5 inch score and measure 1.5 inches up. Cut not quite 3/4's of an inch

Inside of card

open up the card. Measure down 1/2 inch and make a small mark. Score from this mark back up to the ends of each cut. I marked it  on this sample so you can see.

Outside of card

 After you score the triangle, fold it over again and push the triangle to the inside.

 These two pictures are of the strip of paper that actually will swing your image. This piece is cut originally at 3/4 inch and then you will do a little fine tuning and cut off a little off towards the top. See pic to see what I mean. Mark 1 inch up on the bottom left side and then cut at an angle to make a point. Fold up the point and add a glue dot here. Make sure it does not hang off the point...you might have to fold over your dot like I did. It will be inserted with the little point folded up like this. Set this aside for now.

Take the 5 x 6 piece of paper and score at 3/4 , 4 3/4 and 5 1/2.

Left side: Measure up 2 inches from the bottom and cut out the section from the score. Measure down 1/2 inch from the top and cut out that section.

Right side: Measure one inch up-- and cut over to the second score line and cut out that section.

Add a circle to give you the shape...picture below is this is how I got the circle...pretty high tech...yep that's me..Miss Techie.. (don't roll your eyes Abby LOL)

A nice high tech salad plate gave me the curve I needed.

Flip over your 5 x 6 cut up piece. Glue it on like this, aligning your top and bottom edges.

There it is...glued on! Stick in the swing arm and line it up straight with the score line. Push real hard so the glue dot sticks. It can get a little weary after you open and close this baby 100 times LOL!

I did a little testing here to make sure the swing arm was working here before I glued down the right hand tab.
Glue the tab down and test  out ther placement of your image on the swing arm. (you will glue the two front folded panels together once you are sure the swing arm works properly)

Just another peek here of what it will look like before the final tab is glued down.

See how I have part of my image hanging over the front of the polka dot piece? That helps "lock" in the image so it does not flop around. This little puppy is stabilizing the girl that will be popping  up when you open the card.  I adhered my image with glue dots (add glue dots towards the end of the swing arm) and add your image. Open and close your card (at least one hundred times....just kidding!) and test to make sure your image clears the half circle nicely and opens smoothly. This is a good time to go back and glue your front fold together.

Now you are ready to decorate as you wish. I cut out the sentiment with my Cricut and used a fun Mo's Digital Pencil digi. I think this one was a freebie when you joined Mo's group on  Paper Craft Planet...trying to remember......

The Birthday girl holding nephew 'lil' Lukey! (she is 30 and he is 6 months)

I am going to enter this card in the in the Fun Folds challenge over at Our Creative Corner.

Thanks for sticking through this...if you make one of these...I would love it if you link it here so I can come take a peek!

Whew...

WOYWW? and a Peanuts card!

Here we go again...time to join the crafters from across the ocean for another What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday. I actually made the quick card below and then did a quick clean up so I can show you a couple of fun garage sale finds for 25 cents each!!! What a deal...Can you see the neat baby stamp, some made up quilt like little yo yo fabric type embellishments, and some salt shakers I am thinking of putting my glitter in. I want to find some older type shakers in different heights and shapes, and older for a pretty look. I love old, "antiquey" things.

Speaking of old things, I finally got my replacement copic holder, but was sad to not have my fun old pop crate, so I moved it right next to me and am still up in the air as what to put in it. Right now I have some SU punches, but would certainly love your suggestions!

my old pop crate needs a new purpose....and my fun garage sale items

A quick card I made tonight for my sweetie. My new Peanuts stamp...this stamp just looks like me with my hands on my hips when my sweetie watches wayyyy to much TV with my dog!You know how it feels like you are talking to wall sometimes??????

I used the sketch from Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge #20 this week and kept it very simple ...ready for bed!

Card details:
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Stamps: Watching TV FR1050, sentiment handwritten
Cardstock:Basic Grey--  max and whiskers  DP along with a SU card base
Ink: Memento Black and Copics
Misc: Label 8 nestie, circle punches from SU, misc dog bone brad

I'm this week's Guest Designer for Our Creative Corner!!

I am so excited to be asked by this month's host, Jenny Gropp, to be this week's Guest Designer  over at Our Creative Corner's blog! What a honor to get to play along with such talent...I'm just tickled!!!!

If you have been around long, you all know I have been an admirer of Jenny's blog foreverrrrrrrr.
To put it simple....she makes good stuff! LOL I truly admire her ability to embellish a card and her wonderful eye for details! You must peek at her blog as well as all the other "Big Girl" stampers from OCC( as I call them) LOL!  Thanks so much Jenny for the invite!

I had to tell all my friends at work that I was asked to play with the "Big Girls" LOL!!

I hope you can take the time to browse around my blog and maybe join this easy challenge!

Oh yeah...Now a little bit of card info:

Who doesn't love Snoopy? (especially at Christmas time). On this card, Snoopy is cut out and added again with dimensionals. I cut out some of the individual trees from the BoBunny DP to add also. This DP is so fun, it would be hard to make an ugly card with it...sort of like SU!'s Parisian Breeze...lovely paper.

I am gone on vacation for a few days and this post is scheduled, but I will check in if I can. I even have a wee little piece of blog candy to post sometime the first of next week when I get home, nothing big, but it will sure make your cards "purty".

Here is the posting directly from the OCC blog:

The Holidays are here! 

Create a card or project with a Holiday Theme – Christmas or Hanukah. 

This week our December host, Jenny has us all in the Holiday Spirit with a Holiday Challenge. Everyone is busy this time of year doing last minute cards and crossing things off our lists! So today is an easy one.... Create a card or project with a Holiday Theme, Christmas or Hannukah.

And we have another Gift Certificate up for this week's challenge. Play along and link your creation below using Mr. Linky for your chance to win. A $25 Gift Certificate is up for grabs from Totally Stampalicious, a new and FUN line of stamps! The winner will be announced next Saturday with the next OCC Challenge.

There is no time limit on our challenges - feel free to participate whenever you are able. To play along, upload your creation to your blog or gallery, then leave us a comment linking to your project so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC 


 Card Details:


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Stamps: Decorated Dog House by Stampabilites l1017, Sentiment is a Studio G Michaels $1 Stamp


Cardstock: Bo Bunny Tis The Season Deck The Halls DP, Real Red and Chocolate Chip by SU!


Ink:  Memento Black, Copics


Misc: Nesties, New Martha Stewart Deep Punch...so cool, glitter, dimensionals, SU brown ribbon