Fun Folds & Unusual Openings

The Garden Lane designer series paper is the featured product for today's fun fold card ideas.

Fun Fold Card Ideas with Garden Lane

By Melissa Kerman / May 24, 2019 / 14 Comments

The Garden Lane designer series paper is the featured product for today’s fun fold card ideas. This is a new designer series paper that will be available in the 2019 – 2020 Annual Catalog, that goes live on June 4, 2019. This paper is all about shades of green and I love it! In today’s […]

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Card Making Tutorials with Classic Garage Suite

By Melissa Kerman / May 10, 2019 / 0 Comments

Today I’ll be sharing three projects from the May Simple Suite Stampers Card Making Tutorials Bundle. The featured product suite this month is Classic Garage. These projects provide a great sneak peek into this months card making tutorials bundle. The Bundle is available for FREE with qualifying customer orders and it’s available to my team […]

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Learn how to make a simple fun fold card that looks like a shirt. It's so cute and simple you'll just have to go make your own!

Fun Fold Card with Classic Garage

By Melissa Kerman / May 7, 2019 / 1 Comment

Today’s fun fold card was one of the make-n’-takes at my team gathering. I just love this cute shirt card layout and it’s very easy to make too! For this fun fold card, we used the Classic Garage designer series paper which will be retiring when the 2018 – 2019 catalog expires on June 3, […]

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Today's fun fold cards were created using the Painted Seasons Stamp Set, which, is available as part of a FREE bundle during Sale-A-Bration (ends 3/31/19).

Fun Fold Cards with Painted Seasons Set

By Melissa Kerman / March 24, 2019 / 1 Comment

Today’s post features three cards made with the Painted Seasons Stamp Set. These fun fold cards are variations on a theme in three color schemes and two orientations. The stamping is pretty much the same but one is oriented landscape and the other is a portrait orientation. This first card was one of the three […]

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See three projects here from the Simple Suite Stamper's Tutorial Bundle PDF. Projects feature the Doily Builder Thinlits and Happiness Blooms product suite.

Tutorial Bundle Projects

By Melissa Kerman / March 8, 2019 / 1 Comment

Last month I joined a unique design team called the Simple Suite Stampers. Each month we create a set of 8 tutorials that feature a specific Stampin’ Up! product suite. This months tutorial bundle includes projects made with the Happiness Blooms product suite which is on pages 24 to 26 of the 2019 Occasions Catalog. […]

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The set of Handmade Folding Cards in this post are made with the Doily Builder Dies and the Happiness Blooms designer series paper.

Handmade Folding Cards

By Melissa Kerman / March 5, 2019 / 2 Comments

The Happiness Blooms product suite and the Doily Builder thinlits are the featured products for the cards I’m sharing today. I’ve created five variations on this same card layout. They each use different patterns from the Happiness Blooms designer paper pack. You’ll find four out of the five designs in this post. The fifth version […]

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Today's post features two projects made with the All My Love Product Suite. One of the projects is a regular card and the other is pocket card. Plus learn how you can get a FREE Tutorial Bundle featuring the All My Love Product Suite!

Pocket Card and FREE Tutorial Bundle!

By Melissa Kerman / February 5, 2019 / 0 Comments

I’ve got two projects to share today. Both use the All My Love Product Suite from the Occasions catalog which is the featured suite this month, for a new creative team I’ve joined. The group is called the Simple Suite Stampers and I’m super excited to be a part of it! Each month this team […]

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Today's Drapery Fold Card is a Club Project and a Free Card Kit program card. It features the Needlepoint Nook Designer Paper and Lace Embossing Folder.

Drapery Fold Card with Needlepoint Nook

By Melissa Kerman / January 27, 2019 / 0 Comments

Today’s project is a Drapery Fold Card featuring the Needlepoint Nook Designer Paper and Lace Embossing Folder. It is a Stamp Club Project and a Free Card Kit program card. I have been wanting to create a Drapery Fold Card for the longest time, and while there were a few little challenges along the way, […]

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Combine Designer Series Paper and Unique Card Folds to create your Christmas card design. Today's card is simple, beautiful and easy to make!

Simple Christmas Card with Unique Card Folds

By Melissa Kerman / October 13, 2018 / 18 Comments

I’m just loving this simple Christmas card and enjoying playing with unique card folds! This card was my Alaska Cruise card swap and it was so easy to make multiples! I only made 20 but could have easily made lots more! I’ll be sharing two methods for putting this card together. The first method is […]

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Check out this Double Pop Up Slider card made with the Animal Expedition Stamps Set and Blends Alcohol Markers by Stampin’ Up! Project created by Melissa Kerman at Melissa’s Crafting Treehouse.

How to make a Slider Card

By Melissa Kerman / August 26, 2018 / 0 Comments

Unusual Opening cards like this Double PopUp Slider Card are some of the most fun cards to create and share. Today’s project features the Animal Outing Stamp Set and a variety of the Blends Alcohol Markers. This Double PopUp Slider Card requires a bit of engineering, but I just love the challenge, and they are […]

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