Christmas in July - Fun Fold card.

 I saw a neat fun fold card over at Splitcoaststampers a couple of weeks ago and finally got around to trying it out.   It's called Puzzle Panel Gate Fold    and it's nice and easy to do.  

I decided to make a Christmas card using some pretty Kaisercraft patterned paper.   

Here is the card standing up.  I found the paper when I did my reorganising the craft room... and thought it was perfect for this fun fold.  The base was made with a very dark green cardstock.   I stamped the sentiment for the outside and inside with Altenew Mountain Pine ink.   Both are from a free stamp set from a magazine - a very old one.   

Here it is showing the inside sentiment.   

I'm sure I'll be using this fun fold again as it looks awesome.

Animal Antics at Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

This month at Christmas Kickstart, the challenge is "Animal Antics"  - they want to see animals playing in the snow. 

Hubby tidied up the storage space under the stairs that is accessed through my craft room and made the access to the set of storage drawers that are in there, much easier.  Lots of old stamps are in there including lots of freebie sets from magazines.   So I had a look and found a freebie set that had some penguins and a seal as well as a polar bear.   I used the two penguins and the seal to make my card.

I stamped the little critters and then masked them while I used a hill mask I made, and blended some blue ink to make my snowbanks. I removed the masks and used some alcohol markers to colour them in.  I added some Nuvo Crystal drops in Simply White along the edges.  The little snowflakes are from another magazine freebie - stamped in a soft blue ink.  The sentiment is from the same freebie set as the critters.

Another Christmas card added to the stash.   Time to do some card making other than Christmas cards!