Poinsettia building block card

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another fun day of making.

After posting my card onto a group that I belong to I had alot of people asking how I made this card, and I thought it would be best to put it onto my blog with instuctions.

First of all though I would like to point out that although I designed the card the fold is not my idea. I watched a lovely lady called Sam Calcott making a card using this fold and therefore the credit for the fold should go to her.

So let's begin to make the card

Materials needed :

Whisper white thick cardstock

1pc - 7" x 11" on longside score @ 3", 4 1/2", 6" and 7 1/2" for card base

1pc - 5 3/4 x 1 7/8" for die cutting the stitched rectangle out of

1pc - 3/4" x approx 4" for the sentiment

Scrap piece to die cut after having stamped 4 x small circles

Soft Suede cardstock

1pc - 2 7/8" x 6 7/8" for the left side panel

1pc - 3 3/8" x 6 7/8" for the right side panel

1pc - 1 3/8" x 6 7/8" for the small left side panel

8pc - 1 3/8" x 1 1/8" for the small inner panels of card

1pc - 2" x 5 7/8" for behind the white rectangle

1pc - slightly bigger than the white sentiment piece

Scrap piece for stampin and die cutting foilage 

Garden Green cardstock

Scrap pice to die cut and emboss 4 leaves

Soft seafoam cardstock

Scrap piece for die cutting foilage

Brushed metallic 12" x 12" cardstock

Scrap piece for die cutting foilage

Poinsettia Place dsp

1pc - 2 3/4" x 6 3/4" for matting on left side panel

1pc - 3 1/4 x 6 3/4" for matting on ride side panel

1pc - 1 1/4" x 6 3/4" for the small left side panel

8pc - 1 1/4" x 1" for the small inner panels of card

Sheet of 12" x 12 to fussy cut some of the poinsettias out of.

These were the two different sheets I used for the card

Card recipe:

1. Cut, score and burnish your whisper white card base like below

Having folded the score line back as indicated above you can proceed to cut as below down to the first score line for each measurement given.

1 1/4", 1 3/4", 3", 3 1/2", 4 3/4", 5 1/4" and 6 1/2"

Fold as shown.

Push the smaller pieces to the back.

Burnish all of the edges so they are nice and crisp.

This is how the card will look ready to decorate.

2. Cut all of your pieces of card and dsp for the layering, Glue them all on top of one and other and then onto the card where they belong.

3. Fussy cut lots of your poinsettias out (most of them are cut from the edge of the paper where you have the ones that aren't whole wasting nothing).

4. Stamp and die cut all of your foilage pieces ready to be glued into place on your card.

5. Die cut your rectangle as below this way you get a longer rectangle which sits nicely onto the side of the card.

6. Stamp your individual numbers onto your card piece using Versamark ink sprinkle with gold embossing powder, tap off excess powder and heat set. Once completely cooled off die cut your numbers out using the small circle die from the Tasteful labels dies (placing numbers so they sit in the centre of circle).

7. Position all of your poinsettias in place and then glue the foilage pieces and leaves  tucking them behind the poinsettias, now glue all the poinsettias into place making sure you leave enough room for the rectangle layer (which is mounted onto the slightly larger soft suede piece) to sit underneath the poinsettias and foilage.

8. Last thing you need to do is run a very fine line of glue down part of all the edges of your small sections that sit forward, so that you can adhere your circle numbers onto each section, but having just glued the tiny section on each one this will enable you to fold your card flat still, with the circles folding under. 

9. Stamp your sentiment onto your whisper white piece of cardstock using Soft Suede ink, cut each end at an angle, mount onto the soft suede piece and cut the edges to leave a small border all the way round the edges. Glue into place. Card finished.

Hope you liked the card and you have fun making one yourselves.

Thanks for popping on and looking at my blog stay safe everyone and keep crafting.

Big Crafty Hugs

Natalie xx

Products used :

Poinsettia petals bundle 155148

Poinsettia dsp 153487

Stitched rectangle dies 148551

Tasteful labels dies 152886

Whisper white thick cardstock 140490

Soft suede cardstock 119982

Soft suede classic stampin' pad 147115

Garden Green cardstock 108605

Brushed metallic cardstock 12" x 12" 153524

Paper trimmer 152392

Heat tool UK plug 129054

Versamark pad 102283

Gold Stampin' emboss powder 109129

Multipurpose liquid glue 154974

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