This card fold technique was taught at the Crafter's Anonymous online class on Monday night.

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This is my take on it using lovely French Foliage stamp set (very appropriate for the Autumn feel in the air)...

Stamps: French Foliage (wood: 123557, clear: 121166), Tiny Tags (wood: 123557, clear: 121166). Card/Paper: Cajun Craze (121683), Baja Breeze (116207), Confetti White (106557). Ink: Cajun Craze (119671), Baja Breeze (111833), Old Olive (102277), Soft Suede (115657), Crumb Cake (121030). Accessories: Linen Thread (104199). Tools: Jewelry Tag Punch (117190), 1/16" Circle Handheld Punch (101227), Mat Pack (105826), Paper Piercing Tool (116631), Sponge Daubers (102892), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430).

When you pull off the band the card 'springs' open and you get...

I had fun with these soft autumn colours and wanted to make a feature of one of the leaves on the card's band. So I stamped a leaf, cut it out and popped it up on dimensionals...

To get the washed, watercolour-effect on the leaf I first coloured the stamp using Old Olive and Cajun Craze markers, spritzed it with a light mist of water and then stamped. The water makes the colours blend and softens the stamped image. The more you wet your stamp, the more washed-out the stamped image will be.