Krafty Chicks challenge #819 - birthday

Good morning lovely friends; I hope you're having a great week. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 1; as always the theme is 'birthday' and Leanne is our hostess. This is such an easy challenge as we always need birthday cards so we hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

It was my mother's birthday a few weeks ago and of course I wanted to make a special card for her; it's a fun fold card that I saw Gina K make called an interlocking fancy fold card but mine is super sized at 7" x 7" so my panels are slightly different to hers as I had to make mine bigger to suit the card size.  I hope you like it.  Apologies but there is photo overload today; skip through after the first few if you like :)

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

A look at the images:

Plus I decorated the inside:

Finally; this is the card from above to show the fold:

To create my card base I cut three separate panels and joined them together.  First I cut the back piece 7" x 7" and then I cut the two front pieces 6" x 7" and scored these at 1" and 3 1/2".  The 1" tabs were adhered to the back of the 7" square panel on each side using strong red liner tape.  I then folded and creased the other scored lines to create a backward Z on the left side and a Z fold on the right side.  I then die cut two stitched squares from white and the mat layers from black and adhered them together with double sided tape.  The squares were added to the card base with double sided tape (but only to the one side; the piece in the middle was left clear of adhesive).  Now that my card base was ready I started on my stamped and coloured elements.  I used a beautiful stamp, die and stencil bundle from Gina K Designs and used bright and cheerful yellow and green with a hint of black for my colours.  Once the images were stencilled and cut out I adhered them with foam squares to the front of the card.  I also stamped and stencilled two butterflies and added them in the white space on the side panels.  I stamped and die cut the sentiments (but I had to fussy cut the mother word) and again adhered them with foam squares - lots of dimension on this card.  I didn't add any embellishments as I felt there was lots going on already.  For the inside I cut a white panel 6 1/2" square and a slightly larger black mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I used a stencil and some light grey ink to add some soft detail to the centre of the panel and stamped my sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I had some left over stamped pieces so I added them to the top left and bottom right corners with liquid glue.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create challenge - ATG optional twist May flowers

A Cut Above challenge - ATG with a die cut

A Place to Start challenge - ATG optional theme fancy folds

Aud Sentiments challenge - embossing and/or flowers + sentiment

Creative Creases challenge - ATG with a fun fold

Daisy Chain challenge - layer it up

Do-All Creative challenge - ATG optional flowers as eye-catcher

Heart's Quest Celebrations of Love challenge - BEWAS (birthday)

Moving Along With The Times challenge - one or more butterflies

Pearly Sparkles challenge - one or more butterflies

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - make it colourful

The Four Seasons challenge - spring inspired optional mood board

Triple B challenge challenge - birds, blooms or butterflies optional mood board

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'birthday' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I want to say how much I appreciate your lovely comments, your support really does mean the world to me.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

*Gina K Designs

delicate flowers stamp, die & layering stencils bundle

create friendship stamp, die and stencils (for butterflies)

lovely ladies stamp (for mother word)

modern roses stamp & die (for sentiment)

on the inside: birthday (for inside sentiment)

ornamental fans stencil (for inside panel)

sentiment strips die set 

master layouts 3 (for stitched squares and mat layer dies)

ink pads - soft stone, jelly bean green, fresh asparagus, marigold, honey mustard

other supplies:

Limetree Craft - 12" x 12" smooth white card 300gsm

Limetree Craft - 220gsm black card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x