Sunday Fun Day: Faux Stair Step fun fold Ladybug card

Hello and Happy Sunday! For this week's Sunday Fun Day theme over on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are sharing fun/fancy fold projects and I decided to make faux stair step card featuring the Hello Ladybug bundle from the Spring January-June mini catalog. I had seen one on Pinterest shared on Glenda Calkin's thestampcamp blog (see that pin here) and CASE'd it for my project today. Check out her video tutorial to see how it's made.

If this project looks familiar, it is because I had some of this sheet of card stock shown above that was left over from last week's project (see that gift card holder here) and decided to use it for this week's project. Colors used to stamp the "designer paper " include daffodil delight, granny apple green, mango melody and poppy parade.

Above you'll see the super adorable Hello Ladybug stamp set and punch bundle - the stamp set images were used to create my "designer paper" and the punch was used for the ladybug on the front of my card. Please click on the photo above to hop over to my Stampin' Up! store to place an order. If ordering online, please be sure to use Host Code QNTFU7G6.

Here is how you cut the base card and middle section of the faux stair step card. You end up using most of a single sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" piece of card stock, but I feel like it is a lot more sturdy than a traditional stair step card (I made one way back in 2012 that you can see here).

Here is a close-up of the center panel - I added the punched lady bug to the center of the large leaf (strategically cutting my stamped "designer paper" card stock) and added the "hello" sentiment to a strip of basic white card stock and matted it with a strip of mango melody card stock.

Here is a view of the side of the card so you can see how it is put together. The middle section is attached at the bottom to the accordion fold on the front of the card and also at the back of the card.

Because of how you add the center folded piece, the card doesn't fully open. In the first photo above you can see the inside from a side angle and the second picture shows the card opened up from the front.

Here's one more look at my faux stair step card. For even more fun/fancy fold card ideas and projects, don't forget to hop over to the Sisters in Stamping blog to see what Karla and Rachel created.

Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous week!

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