Stampin’ Up! Fun Turler-y Awesome for the Happy Inkin’ Thursday Blog Hop

Welcome to our Thursday group hop! We have a color challenge today and I can’t wait to see what others have chosen to do. But for now, let’s check out my card for today. It’s an off-set gatefold and a birthday card.

Stampin' Up! Turtle-y Awesome Gatefold card front

This offset gatefold is so incredibly easy a I love the versatility of it. And the Turtle-y Cute 12×12 DSP means this could be a birthday card or hello card or thank you – and male or female! I just may change the sentiment since as I’m typing this, I’m thinking of someone who could use a ‘pick-me-up’, lighthearted card. With no sentiment on the inside – this is probably what I will do! But for now – this is it 😀

The card base is Cloud Cover with a layer of Petal Pink, then the Turtle-y Cute DSP. Card cuts will be listed at the bottom of my post. I used the largest Stitched Shapes circle die for the Basic White circle. On that is a fussy cut frog and a couple of bees also fussy cut. I added a Natural Tones double bow and three Shades of Green Hexagon embellishments for texture & fun. The sentiment is from the Turtle-y Awesome stamp set and stamped in Mossy Meadow ink on a Basic White scrap, then fussy cut and added to a Cloud Cover scrap & fussy cut again. The circle was added with dimensionals to just the left front of the gatefold. And you can see I fussy cut the cute frog for the lower left corner of the gatefold as well. Lots of fussy cutting on this card today.

Stampin' Up! Turtle-y Cute Gatefold card inside

For the inside – another layer of Petal Pink then Basic White for writing. I couldn’t help it, these turtles are too cute and I kept finding one after another to fussy cut and add – plus the flower. Each one is added with liquid glue.

Stampin' Up! Turtle-y Cute offset Gatefold card & envelope

For the envelope, I used the Turtle- y Awesome Dies to die cut additional birds from the Turtle-y Cute 12×12 DSP for the envelope front. And – for the flap, more of the same pattern of the Turtle-Y Cute 12×12 DSP adhered & trimmed to fit. Please see below for how to purchase the products to make this card – as well as the measurements.

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