This is another “AnythingGoes” challenge from Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, July 13, 2015. I was having trouble with this one — nothing was inspiring me and I had three other challenges with specific themes to complete so I thought maybe I’d not enter this one. However, after completing two of the three outstanding challenges, I decided to play around with my stash and a tutorial I had seen recently online. It was called a waterfall card, but I think it’s more accurately a cascading accordion fold card.
No matter the name, however. It turns out that I did have some cardstock already cut and scored from something done a year or two ago… They were in my scrap stash, probably because I think I cut them wrong. At any rate, they were the proper size and scoring for the tutorial. I pulled out a couple (one was eventually scrapped as a total failure) and started playing with stamps and inks to come up with my version of the Rubber Stamp Tapestry card.
I didn’t have the stamps the tutorial used (although I did have some Rubber Stamp Tapestry peg sets that I'd never used) , nor did I have the inks used (or specified in the stamp set instructions) so I improvised. I used two Rubber Stamp Tapestry sets (“Waving Wildflowers” SFL34056, “Summer’s Gold” SFL34064), and six Archival Inks (“Leaf Green”, Fern Green”, and “Tiger Lily” from Wendy Vecchi’s Designer Series and “Vermillion”, “Aquamarine” and “Chrome Yellow”). I stamped one side of the card along the top margin and, when dry, fussy cut the top margin to create an irregular edge. I used the “Dragonflies At Dusk” (Rubber Stamp Tapestry, SBI08000) stamps and “Mermaid Lagoon” Distress Ink to randomly stamp different dragonflies in the white space of what would be the card interior. A wood-mounted Rubber Stamp tapestry stamp “Solid Leaf Vine” (42018-D) in “Leaf Green” was used to create a border along the interior bottom of the card, and a message was created using stamps from the Stampers Anonymous set “Botanical Sketch” (CMS216) and “Leaf Green”.
No matter the name, however. It turns out that I did have some cardstock already cut and scored from something done a year or two ago… They were in my scrap stash, probably because I think I cut them wrong. At any rate, they were the proper size and scoring for the tutorial. I pulled out a couple (one was eventually scrapped as a total failure) and started playing with stamps and inks to come up with my version of the Rubber Stamp Tapestry card.
I didn’t have the stamps the tutorial used (although I did have some Rubber Stamp Tapestry peg sets that I'd never used) , nor did I have the inks used (or specified in the stamp set instructions) so I improvised. I used two Rubber Stamp Tapestry sets (“Waving Wildflowers” SFL34056, “Summer’s Gold” SFL34064), and six Archival Inks (“Leaf Green”, Fern Green”, and “Tiger Lily” from Wendy Vecchi’s Designer Series and “Vermillion”, “Aquamarine” and “Chrome Yellow”). I stamped one side of the card along the top margin and, when dry, fussy cut the top margin to create an irregular edge. I used the “Dragonflies At Dusk” (Rubber Stamp Tapestry, SBI08000) stamps and “Mermaid Lagoon” Distress Ink to randomly stamp different dragonflies in the white space of what would be the card interior. A wood-mounted Rubber Stamp tapestry stamp “Solid Leaf Vine” (42018-D) in “Leaf Green” was used to create a border along the interior bottom of the card, and a message was created using stamps from the Stampers Anonymous set “Botanical Sketch” (CMS216) and “Leaf Green”.
I then stamped the reverse side on all panels except the one I planned to attach to a tag:
The tag used Yvonne Blair’s Acrylic Block stamping technique with “Evergreen Bough”, “Iced Spruce”, “Forest Moss” and “Crushed Olive” Distress Inks, and was a spare tag created earlier for another challenge:
I cut two slits in the card and threaded a ribbon scrap through from the back:
I later found that the ribbon I had chosen wasn’t long enough to tie a bow so I swapped it out for some “Navajo Turquoise” polyester grosgrain (JoAnn CraftEssentials). I attached the accordion card to the tag with redline tape, positioned so that the ribbon could be tied around the card to keep it closed. I then attached a JustNan Silver Painted dragonfly charm (JNC15) with Crystal Glaze to the top of the tag, overlapping both the hole in the tag and the top of the accordion card:
The final card closed:
and opened:
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