Sophisticated Sled, Snowy Scenes, Peekaboo Flap Technique, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

 Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a fun card to share with you. The technique is called the "Peekaboo Flap".  I found it on Pinterest. You can see the original card here. If you click through there's even a PDF file you can download for free that will show you how it's made. Please read on to see how I made today's card. 

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Garden Green card stock. It opens on the bottom and the fold is on the top. I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock for the inside (don't tape it in place yet.

The Designer Series Paper (DSP) was cut next. It measures 5-1/4" x 4" and is from the "Take a Bow" 6" x 6" stack. I taped it to the front of the card. Then I cut the center out using the 4th largest die in the "Countryside Corners" set. 

Using the same die I cut a Pool Party piece and textured it using the "Snowflake Sky" embossing folder. 

The piece that will be placed on top of the textured piece was cut from Basic White card stock using the 5th largest die in the set. Using Pool Party ink and my Blending Brush I scrubbed on some color. I glued the two pieces together.

I fussy cut the globe from the "Snowy Scenes" 12" x 12" package of DSP. On the other side of the globe sheet is the pretty snowflake piece. I cut that strip at 1-1/2" x 5".  I snipped the top to give it the two points. I folded the piece so the top part was 4" long, from the tip to the fold. I glued the 1" of the folded piece to the back center of the Basic White piece. I'll give you a little tip on how I found center quickly and got the piece on straight. Making sure my fold was straight helped with that. On the upper part of the Basic White piece I found center and just touched the edge a bit with my fingernail to make the tiniest dent on the top. I eyed the center of the arrow/ribbon end and taped the bottom part in place. You can also measure 1-7/8" from either side of the Basic White piece and taped the back 1" of the strip in place. 

Once the strip is in place then I taped the Basic White piece to the inside of the card. I slipped the ribbon piece through the opening of the front of the card. 

I taped the Pool Party layered piece in place on the ribbon. Make sure you only place the tape where the ribbon is in the opening. I used a lot of tape there. 

Next I stamped the words on the globe. They are from the "Sophisticated Sled" bundle using black Memento ink. My pad was just recently inked so it was a bit juicy and made the words thicker. The I added the globe using Dimensionals. 

For the final touch I added a bunch of the cute little snowflakes from the "White Loose Snowflakes" container. And the card was done.

I thought this was a fun card to make. I would rather have had something else for the background on the card base but I was limited in colors with my DSP. Maybe if I would have switched the ribbon strip color for the green snowflake color.  Hmmm, sounds like it might be prettier.  But I think I was looking at colors and found the center might be too washed out that way. Oh well, it is what it is. It was still fun to make.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's Christmas card,
Wanda