I’m so excited to be asked to be a Guest Designer for a special edition of “Around the World on Wednesday” Blog Hop. They have rounded up some of the ORIGINAL “Tour the Freaks” Blog Hoppers to join them for their April Blog Hop featuring a Monochromatic Rainbow! How fun is that!
I was assigned “Blue” for my color and thought it would be perfect for a masculine card. I can never get too many ideas for them! I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s A Good Man with Well Suited Designer Paper for today’s Center Fold-Out Easel Card. I always love making special fold cards! This card is perfect for the guy in your life…no ribbon, no bling…just stamping and coloring!
Stampin’ Details:
- The base is 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 Pacific Point cardstock.
- Two 1-1/4 x 4 pieces of Well Suited Designer Paper were added to each end.
- A second piece of Pacific Point cardstock is cut to 3 x 8-1/2, then scored at 2-1/8 and 4-1/4. It was folded as shown and adhere in the center area of the base.
- A 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 piece of Night of Navy cardstock was adhered on the bottom to the easel portion.
- The 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 piece of Basic White cardstock was stamped with the image from A Good Man, then colored with Balmy Blue Combo, Night of Navy Combo, Ivory, and Pool Party Combo Stampin’ Blends.
- The greeting from A Good Man was stamped with Pacific Point Ink in the upper right corner.
- A 1-3/4 x 2-3/4 piece of Night of Navy cardstock was added to the bottom of the easel with Stampin’ Dimensionals. (This allows the easel portion to tuck behind it and stay up.)
- The 1-1/2 x 2-1/2 piece of Basic White cardstock was stamped with the A Good Man greeting and added to the Night of Navy.
- A little Wink of Stella was added to the water under the chair.
It folds flat so it will easily fit in a regular envelope.
Make sure to follow around the blog hop to see all the Monochromatic Rainbow cards this month! Next up is Wendy Lee!
Mary Brown – US – Special Guest
Connie Babbert – US – Special Guest – YOU ARE HERE!
Lisa Martz – US – Special Guest
Wendy Weixler – US – Special Guest



These CHARMING DAY STAMPS have beautiful rose and anemone flower designs that were hand drawn with a calligraphy pen, resulting in open line art that’s perfect for coloring. These sweet florals will highlight your spring, summer or fall projects! Add the CHARMING DAY DIES to enhance your paper crafting projects with gorgeous floral and greenery cutouts. We've also used the coordinating FLORAL CHARM 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER to give a modern twist on these vintage designs. In our CHARMING DAY CARD COLLECTION, you'll get step-by-step tutorials for EIGHT card projects. See more details HERE!

Stampin' Up!'s new DistINKtive style PERFECTLY PEARS BUNDLE makes creating quick and easy with the two-step stamping! Stamp the outline in a dark color, then color it with the solid image that fits inside...the shading is already done for you! You'll love the vintage fruit, delicate flowers and timeless sentiments included in this bundle! The PERFECTLY PEARS DIES even include some stand-alone greenery images and a couple labels to cut out your sentiments. We've used the PAINTERLY PEARS 12x12 DESIGNER PAPER included in the PAINTERLY PEARS SUITE on our projects. You'll get step-by-step tutorials for SIX card projects...four regular and two cute-as-can-be favors! See more details HERE!
Oh pretty creation and the tutorial on top of that! Thank you for sharing !
Great card!!
Perfect card for a man, and I love the fun fold!!
Great job! This is one of my favourite fancy folds and it’s so good to see it works just as well on a masculine card.
Great guy fun fold
Love this fun fold! Such a great masculine card.
Love it! Great fun fold. Thank you for being a part of the hop!
Love everything about this blue masculine fun-fold, Connie! Thanks so much for joining us on the AWOW Blog Hop… it has been such a pleasure to hop with you!