Funky Fold inspired by Vicki

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Tonight I'm hopping with an awesome bunch of talented crafters who love dabbling with folds!!  

We are a group of like-minded paper crafters who love to make cards with funky folds. Funky actually means "modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way"... so we are featuring cards that are not your usual rectangle/square portrait or landscape style. Think 'easel', 'pop-up', 'gatefold', 'z-fold', 'shaped' or 3D cards etc. The list is endless. 

All Blog Hops have an 'anything goes' theme using any type of 'funky' card fold.

My card tonight was inspired by the amazing Vicki Hodgeman and a wonderful card she shared last week!!  I love a surprise in the middle of a card and this is one!!

Vicki's card had a belly band, but I'm a little inept making them, so my card has a little side flap with a butterfly on the end that tucks under the little butterfly on the left to keep it closed.  

And when you open the card there is a beautiful butterfly popping up in the middle!!  

The butterfly folds totally in on itself when you close the card which creates a wonderful fold in the middle - perfect for a butterfly!

The mechanism to create the flying butterfly is 2 little boxes adhered together on either side of the middle fold line.  

I've used the same colour cardstock for my card base and the little boxes and the first layer of the multilayered butterflies so they really blend in to make it look like the butterfly is not attached!  

My card also features some lovely new colours - Secret Sea dn Cloud Cover.  My stamping was all done using Misty Moonlight.   

And I've used the Beautiful Butterflies bundle which has wonderful images and the fabulous dies that work so well.  

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of amazing inspiration just for you!

Pop Up Beautiful Butterflies

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