Mini Oddball Superhero Double Diamond Fold Card

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing how to make this Mini Oddball Superhero Double Diamond Fold Card. Such a cute little card and it fits into a standard A2 size envelope. 

Supplies:

Mini Oddball Superhero rubber stamp set

Card

Designer Paper - Piatek Trzynastego: Happy Birthday

Scoring board and bone folder

Pencil and eraser

Adhesive and foam tape/dots

How to:

Stamp Mini Oddball Superhero onto white card and colour using your preferred medium. Fussy cut around the outline and set aside. 

To make the card base, cut a piece of card measuring 4" x 10". On the 4" side, score at 2". 

Turn 90 degrees and score on the long side at 2" and 8". 

Make a notch with your stylus, or pencil, at  4" and 6", top and bottom. 

Measure along the centre score line and mark with a pencil or stylus at 3" and 7" 

Score from the 4" and 6" marks to the 3" and 7" marks top and bottom, as shown. 

Fold and burnish the outer score lines. 

Carefully fold the diagonal lines. 

With the outer sections folded back, squeeze inwards to create the diamond fold. 

For the layers, cut card - 

(1x) 2.75" square

(2x) 2-5/8" squares

(4x) 1.75" squares  

Cut paper -

(1) 2.5" square

(4x) 1-5/8" squares  

Adhere a 2-5/8" square to either side of the largest square. Then adhere the paper to the front side. Adhere the small square paper pieces to the small square card pieces. 

Apply foam tape/dots to the lower half of the back of the largest square, on the diagonal.

Adhere to the centre section of the card base, lining up the points so that they are at the score line. 

Adhere the four smaller panels on the front and back of the outside of the card. 

Adhere Mini Oddball Superhero to the diamond using foam tape/dots.

Stamp the sentiment onto a piece of white card and then, using the back section of the diamond as a guide, cut out into a triangle a little smaller than the card layers. 

Decorate as desired. 

For more inspiration check out the Stamping Bella Sisterhood page over on Facebook, where you can add your own Stamping Bella creations.

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Shutter Flap Card | Stamping Bella

Hi all :) Today I'm sharing how I made this Shutter Flap Card. With Father's Day coming up soon I took the plunge into a male themed card. This could also be used for a birthday card. It's no secret that I adore Stamping Bella's Oddball collection and I just can't get enough of the Oddball family characters. So versatile and fun to work with. 

Supplies:

Oddball Mom and Dad rubber stamps set

Oddball Siblings rubber stamps set

Down on the Farm sentiments set

Card

Designer paper

Scoring board, bone folder, pencil, ruler, eraser

Crop-a-dile, grommet, twine

Rectangle Die

How to:

Stamp all five images from the Oddball Mom and Dad and the Oddball Siblings stamp sets. 

Stamp the sentiment from Down on the Farm beneath the baby and cut out in a 1.5"x 3.5" rectangle. Cut the dad image in a 1.25" x 2-5/8" rectangle. Fussy cut around the outline of the other images. Set aside. 

For the card, cut card- 

Base: 7" x 10"

Inside and front layer - (2x) 6-3/8"x 4.5"

Shutter mechanism:

Base and front frame - (3x) 5-7/8" x 4-1/8" 

Shutters - (3x) 4-1/8" x 2-1/8" 

Cut paper layers - 

Shutters - (6x) 2.75" x 1-3/8", using contrasting colours/design for inside and outside.

Base - (2x) 4" x 1.5", and one each of 2" x 4" and 0.5" x 4" 

Front frame -  5-7/8" x 4-1/8

Score and fold the card base at 5" on the 10" side. Adhere one of the 6-3/8"x 4.5" pieces of card inside. Set aside. 

Apply adhesive around the edges of one of the 5-7/8" x 4-1/8" pieces of card. Adhere a second one of the same size to it, then adhere the 5-7/8" x 4-1/8" piece of paper to the card pieces. 

On the back, measure and mark at 5/8" on all four sides, drawing guide lines as shown. 

Using a craft knife, cut along the lines to remove the centre piece. 

Turn over to the paper side and flatten the raised cut edges with a bone folder. 

Take the 4-1/8" x 2-1/8" pieces of card and score each one at 5/8" on both short sides and one long side. On the remaining long side, score at 5/8" each side of the intersecting score line. 

On the side with the long score line, cut up on each 5/8" line until you meet the horizontal line. then cut across the score line to remove the centre piece. 

On the opposite side, cut on each side the score lines up to the horizontal lines and remove the little sliver of card. 

Fold all four tabs on the score lines, ensuring the angles are square, and burnish well with the bone folder. Repeat these steps for all 3 pieces of card. 

Turn the shutters so that the side with removed middle section is on the left. This is the front of the shutters. Adhere the paper layers. 

Turn over each piece and adhere the contrasting paper to the back side. 

With the front of the shutter facing upwards, fold back the two outer tabs and apply wet glue 

Adhere the tabs to left side corners of the remaining 5-7/8" x 4-1/8" piece of card, ensuring there is no over hang around the edges. Fold up the tabs on the other side of the shutter, as shown. 

To add the second shutter, apply adhesive to the tabs as for the first one, line up the shutters so that there is just a tiny gap between them, then fold down the tabs and adhere, again ensuring they are lined up  with the edge of the base piece. 

Repeat for the third shutter. 

Note: If you would prefer to adhere the paper layers and add any images/embellishments to the base piece before adding the front frame, skip the next two steps and come back to them once the layers/embellishments have been added. 

Fold back all of the remaining tabs and apply wet glue. 

Adhere the frame  to the tabs, lining it up with the edges of the base piece. 

Adhere the (2x) 4" x 1.5" pieces to the centre sections, the 2" x 4" to the end section, and the 0.5" x 4" piece to the smallest section of the base. 

Using foam tape/dots, adhere the dad image to the centre front shutter. 

Adhere the baby image to the base piece. 

Pull open the shutters and adhere the remaining images to the inside of the shutters, trimming the Mom to size. 

Decorate the front of the frame and shutters. 

Retrieve the card base and adhere the remaining 6-3/8"x 4.5" piece of card to the front. 

Apply wet glue to the back of the shutter base, then adhere to the front of the card base. 

Punch a hole on the left side of the frame, adding a grommet. 

Thread some twine though the grommet as a pull mechanism to open the shutters.  

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