Them Bones Fun FoldInspiration In Ink Blog Hop

Welcome to the August 2023 Inspirations In Ink Blog Hop. Thank you for visiting my page. The Inspirations In Ink team is a group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators world-wide who have banned together to provide you with inspiration for creating handmade cards.

Today’s Hop is featuring Fun Fold card creations. The Fun Fold I chose to create is a Triple Cube Card featuring the Them Bones Suite (Bag of Bones Bundle).

Although this card looks complicated, I promise it is not, so give it a try.

The Them Bone Suite is a darling Suite for those that love Halloween or have young ones that they like to send animated cards to. I am not a Halloween lover, but when my nieces & nephews began heading off to college I began sending Halloween cards with a little treat ($) inside.

This Suite includes:

BAG OF BONES STAMPS

BAG OF BONES DIES

THEM BONES DSP

GLOW-IN-THE-DARK

Specialty Paper – Bats & Ghosts Embellishments

I wanted to create a multi-dimensional scene with this Suite and decided that the Triple Cube Fun Fold would do an amazing job. The color palette for my card includes: Basic Black for the cube bases, Tombstone, Fences, and bats; Pumpkin Pie for tombstone detail; Granny Apple Green for grass; Crushed Curry for stars and moon; Basic White for the scattered bones, and Them Bones DSP for the background and human, cat and dog skeletons.

MEASUREMENTS

Basic Black
Large Panel: 5 1/4″ x 11″ score @ 2 5/8″, 5 1/4″, 7 7/8″, 10 1/2″
(14.2cm x 27.9cm score @ 6.6cm, 14.2cm, 20cm, 26.6cm)
Small Panel: 2 – 2 5/8″ x 7 1/2 score @ 1 1/2″, 3″, 4 1/2″, 6″
(2 – 6.6cm x 19.5cm score @3.8cm, 7.6cm, 12.3cm, 15.2cm)
Tombstone: 2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″
Skeleton: 2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ (6.3cm x 10.4cm)
Skeleton Brace: 1/4″ x 5″ score @ 1″ (0.6cm x 13.6cm score @ 2.5cm)
Tombstone Brace: 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ score @ 1 1/2″ (1.3cm x 8.8cm score @ 1.3cm)
Skeleton Brace: 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ scored @ 1″
Bottom Braces: 2 – 3/4″ x 1″ score @ 1/2″ (2 – 1.9cm x 2.5cm score @ 1.3cm)
Scrap

Them Bones DSP – Mats
2 – 2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ (2- 6.3cm x 9.5cm)

Granny Apple Green – Mats
2 – 2 1/2″ x 1 3/8″ (2 – 6.3cm x 3.4cm)
2 – 2 1/2″ x 1 3/4″ (2 – 6.3cm x 4.4cm)
2 1/4″ x 1 1/4″ (5.7cm x 3.1cm)

Pumpkin Pie
Scrap

Crushed Curry
Scrap

Basic White – Mats
2- 2 1/2″ x 5 1/8″ (2 – 6.3cm x 13.9cm)
Scrap

CONSTRUCT CARD

1. Begin by cutting all pieces according to the measurements listed above.

2. Die cut the following:
See image for reference.

    ~ Tombstone
        Basic Black x 1 , Pumpkin Pie x 1
    ~ Grass – lg Granny Apple Green x 2
    ~ Fence – Basic Black x 2
    ~ Bats – Basic Black, as many as you want.
    ~ Moon & Stars Crushed Curry x 2
    ~ Bones – Basic White, as many as you want.

3. Insert all Granny Apple Green Pieces
into the Timeworn Type 3D EF and run
through the SCEM.

4. Die cut the person, dog, and cat skeleton
from the DSP.

5. Die cut some of the partial
skeletal pieces from the edges of the DSP
using the coordinating die.

6. Decorate the 2 Basic White mats.

~ Stamp the Happy Halloween sentiment and
bats with Memento’s Tuxedo Black ink.

    ~ Stamp various bone parts along the
    bottom of both Basic White panels with 2nd
    generation Cajun Craze ink.

~ Stamp the No Bones About It sentiment on
Pumpkin Pie scrap with Tuxedo Black ink.

    ~ Cut the sentiment apart and adhere the
    words No Bones, About it, You’re, and Sweet
    along the bottom of both panels.

7. Score and re-flatten the 3 Basic Black panels.

8. Decorate the large panel as follows:
See image for reference.

~ Adhere the 2 decorated Basic White mats
to sections 2 & 3.

~ Adhere 2 DSP to sections 4 & 5.

~ Add adhesive to panel to the left of
Basic White mat.

~ Fold score marks to create a cube
shape and adhere to other end.

9. Construct large cube:

   ~ Fold score mark to the left of the
    Basic White section to the backwards
    and add liquid glue to it.

~ Fold score mark between Basic White
and DSP backwards and flatten on top of
section with liquid glue. Smooth flat.

Note: Make sure all score marks have been creased!

10. Decorate both smaller panels as follows:
See image for reference.

~ Adhere the medium Granny Apple
Green piece to section 4.

    ~ Add a small drop of liquid glue to the
    very bottom of the fence posts and adhere
    fence to the very top edge of section 3,
    just below the score mark.

~ Adhere the die cut grass piece to section 3
hiding the adhered fence posts.

     ~ Add adhesive to bottom section,
    fold score marks to create a cube shape
    and adhere to other end.

11. Construct small cubes:

~ Flip panel over, fold section 1 up
and add adhesive.

    ~ Fold the rest of the cube in half between
     the 2 Granny Apple Green pieces, flatten,
   and adhere the section 5 to the adhesive.

12. Adhere cubes together.

~ Flatten large cube with open end to the top
and DSP facing upwards.

    ~ Flatten small cubes between the
    Granny Apple Green sections 3 &4.
    The open end should be to the side.

~ Add adhesive to black section on same side
as the Granny Apple Green rectangle.

    ~ Line up the 2 sides and bottom edge of the
    small cube with the 2 sides and bottom edge
    of the DSP panels (the black section).

~ Repeat above process with remaining
small cube

13. Prepare tombstone.

~ Fussy cut the center & peak detail out of the
Pumpkin Pie tombstone.

    ~ Stamp the Eat, Shrek, and Be Scary
    sentiment on the center piece in
    Memento’s Tuxedo Black and adhere
    to the center of the Basic Black tombstone.

~ Adhere the Pumpkin Pie center and peak to
the Basic Black Tombstone.

14. Add the skeleton and tombstone
features to card.

    ~ Adhere Basic Black die cut skeleton
    to the back of the DSP die cut skeleton.
    This will make the skeleton stronger.

    ~ Fold the skeleton brace in half. Adhere to
    the back of the skeleton with scored end
    placed half way up the skull.

    ~ Flip skeleton over, keeping brace folded in
    half, and add liquid glue to the other folded
    half.

~ Adhere to DSP.

Don’t let the top of the skeleton or tombstone
extend above the top of the large cube.

15. Repeat the above process with tombstone.

16. Decorate with all the extra die cuts and more!
Note: The partial skeleton is only adhered to the left panel.

Don’t forget to decorate the envelope!

The fun of receiving snail mail begins with the envelope.

I decorated the envelope by stamping the human and dog skeletons in the front, lower left corner and some body parts along the bottom.

I stamped the cat on the envelope flap with bats flying around.

Don’t forget to check out all views at the bottom of this post!

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