Fancy Fold – My Messy Craft Room

Accordion Card, Birthday, Fancy Fold, Fancy Label Accordion, Uncategorized

Happy Birthday 2 U Candle Card

Posted on July 29, 2024 by mymessycraftroom5

Yay I got to play Craft Roulette this weekend , and make a card I needed to have done sooner then I typically get them done. Lol. Gotta love when things fall into place and I really love how this card turned out!!!

Soooo I really wore my stretchy pants for this one, as typically an A2 card is a specific sized card that is 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” and I don’t know how I forgot this parameter when I started the card. Who I am kidding, I got excite when I found card stock to match this fun paper that reminded me of a blue and white tea set that I own, and the green for green tea, and that the candles had “stripes” I totally got half way through assembly when I had that ooh oh moment. There really isn’t a way to make a square accordion card into an A2 so I was just going to finish the card and forget about submitting then I had the idea to mix papers on the greeting on the front and made the “A” and the “2” in gold. oh and I also fashioned the dog into my sweet Lexi wearing a party hat. Phew parameters met ✔️

All the fun is in the reveal, to see this card in action please check out my FACEBOOK page, feel free to join if you would like to share your own crafty creations. You can also see a video of this card on my INSTAGRAM page.

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Birthday, Fancy Fold, interactive, Karen Burnistons Design Challenge, label, Slim Line, slimline, Uncategorized

Label Challenge Card

Posted on August 1, 2022August 2, 2022 by mymessycraftroom5

Today is my first official challenge blog post as a Karen Burniston design team member, and I’m so excited to share this card 😊. The challenge this month was “Labels” and I was in a bit of a pickle. I own a LOT of KB dies but I don’t currently own any of the “Labels” dies. I placed an order but was concerned they wouldn’t get to me in time so I reached out to fellow design team member Karen Aicken who lives in the same province as I do and asked if she could die cut a few pieces for me, and not only did she send me what I asked for, she die cut pieces from 3 different Labels sets in black and white. Thank you Karen, without your help I wouldn’t have this lovely card.

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Birthday, Fancy Fold, Photo Collage, Uncategorized, waterfall

…but who’s counting

Posted on June 27, 2022July 1, 2022 by mymessycraftroom5

So my craft room has been packed up for A YEAR!!, with me sneaking a few things out from time to time. Now that I am trying to get my blog back on track, I’ve already had a special request, and I just had to go for it. A lady doesn’t turn 70 everyday, and my crazy craft brain went a little over the top for this one. I lost track of how many hours of die cutting and assembling (I need to find my alphabet stamps lol) but I had a vision and here it is….

And here it is in action 🤩

I’m trying something a little different with this post, I’ve numbered the photos to match the directions that are just below each photo

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Character Card, Fancy Fold, interactive, MOTION CARD, Pop up card, Slim Line, slimline, Tag Book Pop Up, Uncategorized

Happy 22nd Birthday

Posted on January 25, 2021February 1, 2021 by mymessycraftroom5

So my son just turned 22 and I knew I wouldn’t be able to see him on his birthday so I knew I had to make him something extra special. He has been a Star Wars fan since before he can even remember, but I remember. I remember all the light sabres we had around the house (one of every colour), the voice changing masks and all the Lego space ships, there was so much lego. And the movies, on repeat, first on VHS, then on DVD, and finally on Blu Ray. At first I was a little stumped on what I was going to do for a card until he sent me a photo of his baby daughter wearing a Yoda hat 💖 💚 , and then I knew it had to be Star Wars. This is what I came up with.

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Beads, Birthday, Fancy Fold, interactive, MOTION CARD, Photo Collage, shaker card, Uncategorized

Over the Rainbow Birthday card

Posted on November 8, 2020November 9, 2020 by mymessycraftroom5

Every once in a while I get excited about how a card turned out, and I have to say I am pretty happy with this one. I made this card especially for my niece and I’m finally able to share it. At first I was stumped as to what to make her as I generally go a little over the top when making cards for her and her brother (His last card) But I was inspired by a Shaker Card that I made a few months ago and I wanted to change it up a bit make it bigger and better. And this is what I came up with.