Beauty of Friendship Birthday Card

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Today’s blog hop has an Autumn theme. This is absolutely my favorite season for card making. The colors, trees, and fall images make me smile and think of gorgeous fall foliage with comfortable, cool temperatures. I’ve turned to my favorite fall bundle….The Beauty of Friendship. I love the trees, the Beauty of the Earth papers that coordinate with it, and the sentiments. I hope you enjoy the fun fold of this Beauty of Friendship Birthday card, too.

This card has a bit of a surprising way that it opens. It is a type of gatefold with the top opening up. The top portion also overlaps the bottom a bit more than usual! You can make this fun fold card too. Just follow the instructions below. This is what it looks like when open.

Instructions for Beauty of Friendship Birthday CArd

1. Cut your Cinnamon Cider card base 4 1/4″ x 11″ and score at 3 1/2″ and 9″.
2. Fold and burnish the score lines.
3. Cut a Mossy Meadow mat 4″ x 4 1/4″ and 4″ x 1 3/4″.
4. Place the larger Mossy Meadow mat on the top flap so that the border on the top, right and left side are equal. It will hang over the bottom of the card base. Adhere in place. (Be sure not to put adhesive on the part that overhangs.)
5. Adhere the smaller mat to the bottom flap of the card base.
6. Cut the left print of the Beauty of the Earth papers to 3 3/4″ x 4″. Center and adhere to the top section of the card base.
7. Cut the Mossy Meadow tree print to 3 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ and adhere to the bottom flap of the card base.
8. Use the large “almost” oval shaped die from the Tasteful Labels dies to cut a piece of the “sky” blue patterned paper.
9. Die cut the tree from a scrap of Mossy Meadow and adhere to the blue die cut label.
10. Adhere this piece to the front of the card, slightly to the left of center.
11. Stamp Happy Birthday in Mossy Meadow ink on a 1/2″ wide scrap of Basic White card stock. Use your scissors to trim the right hand edge at an angle. Pop it up across the base of the tree, centered on the top flap.
12. Add three 2020-2022 In Color Square Gems onto the front.
13. Adhere a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Mossy Meadow to the inside of the card.
14. Onto that adhere a 5″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Basic White.
15. Adhere a 1/2″ strip of the Mossy Meadow tree paper from Beauty of Earth down the left hand side.

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