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Photoplay DIY Home Edition Masculine Card Tutorial for Make & Take Tuesday

Hello, Friends! Today we’re taking a little break from holiday creations to share this cute Photoplay DIY Home Edition Masculine Card Tutorial with you. Welcome to Make & Take Tuesday! Our “soon to be” son-in-law just had a birthday, and this collection could not be a more perfect match! He’s a really clever, handy and handsome fella with no end of good ideas, talents and abilities. I had so much fun creating this special card for his birthday that I thought you might like to see how it came together.

This 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ double Z-Fold card base calls for a bit of paper engineering and “out of the box” thinking. But no worries! I’ve done all of that for you! I started with Photoplay’s new Easel Card Kit. Instead of making a standard easel card, which is one of my favorite designs, I saw how easy it would be to change up the fold just a little in order to make a fabulous fun fold card folio. I’ll show you how in the video tutorial below.

Hidden Pocket Card Folio

The cool thing about this card design is the addition of a hidden pocket/flap feature on the inside. This makes for a fun surprise, and also adds room for more fun “stuff” inside the card.

Chris chuckled when he saw the “I’ve got the tool for that” ephemera on the hidden pocket insert. “That’s true,” is what he said. Did I feel like I was winning? Oh, yes, I did!

Two Pockets Are Better Than One!

In addition to the hidden pocket/pull out page, I created a little gift card pocket in the center of this card folio. You can never have too many pockets, right?

This is such a great masculine paper collection, especially when you have a handyman on your card making list! And, you can use the engineered card base with any collection from your stash to change up the theme. How great is that?

DIY Home Edition Masculine Card Tutorial on YouTube

If you’d like to follow along and learn how to create this fun fold card, please enjoy the tutorial on my YouTube channel.

I’ll be back on Thursday with another Throwback project for you. Can’t believe it’s the last one for November 2022.

You’ll find a linked supply list below this post.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Summer Fun with Petaloo: DIY Sunshine Happiness Journal

Hello, Petaloo Fans! Today I have a fun activity for your tweens. This DIY Sunshine Happiness Journal is a quick, easy and affordable project. It’s perfect for taking along on a long car trip, tucking into a camper’s suitcase, carrying on an airplane or taking to Grandma’s house.

The base of the Sunshine Happiness Journal is a standard steno notebook. These are awesome, because the back cover is so sturdy you don’t need a desk. This is such a simple make that your tween could put this together all on her own. (I did not make one for a boy, but you could do so easily!)

I decorated the cover with Simple Stories Sunshine and Happiness paper, then added on chipboard elements and stickers for extra fun.

What tween wouldn’t love to jwrite in this cute Sunshine Happiness Journal? Plenty of pink Petaloo posies make it extra special!

Decorate the inside cover with more designer papers and create a simple slash pocket to hold journaling cards. The cards can be glued into the journal along with photos.

These fun journal cards will look great when added to the inside pages. You could add postage stamps and envelopes to the pocket to encourage your tween to write letters home from camp or grandma’s house. Tuck in a hot pink pen, and you’re good to go!

Wishing you a fun filled summer! Now go get your craft on!

Cheerio,

kathy

Petaloo Products used in this project:

Gerber Daisy x 6 light pink SKU: 1174-101

Mini Gerber Daisy x 12 fuschia/pink SKU: 1175-102

Botanica Petite’s x 11 FuschiaSKU: 1101-102

Mini Burlap x 11 Antique Red SKU: 1208-250

Other Products

Simple Stories Sunshine and Happiness

Really Reasonable Ribbon Geranium Pink Lattice Print Satin

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