Floating and fluttering diamond fold card

 

Hello again, well today I'm sharing a project that I absolutely loved putting together, and I hope you'll all have a go and make one too.

I've made a floating card which is where you apply strips of card or paper onto a piece of window sheet leaving small gaps, using tear n tape (double sided adhesive tape), then you cut it to the size you require and die cut a shape into it, then when you adhere it to your main card using dimensionals the whole thing looks like it's floating on the surface. It's hard to see the effect that it gives in the photo but it's really lovely in reality.

So lets get started.........

Materials used:

Basic white thick cardstock   

1pc - 4-1/2" x 9" score on longside at 2-1/4 and 4-1/2" 

1pc - 3" x 3"  - (diamond section layer)

1pc - Big enough to stamp and die cut the many messages

1pc - Big enough to stamp and die cut the multiple of butterflies 

Granny apple green cardstock

1pc -3-1/8" x 3-1/8" - (diamond section layer)

Strips in different thicknesses to the length required

Daffodil delight, Coastal cabana and Pacific point cardstock

Strips of different thicknesses and to the length required

Oh so ombre dsp - (free sale a bration item) I've used granny apple green 3 sheets in total

2pc - 2-1/8" x 4-3/8"  - 1st sheet (middle front and back section)

1pc - 2-1/8 X 2-1/8" - 2nd sheet (diagonally cut for bottom section)

1pc - 2-15/16" x 2-15/16"  - 3rd sheet (diamond section layer)

1pc - 3-1/16" x 3-1/16" - 3rd sheet ( bottom section)

Window sheet

1pc - 4" x 4" cut to sizes required:

2-15/16" x 2-15/16"  - diamond section layer

1-7/8" (along the bottom) x 3-7/8" (along the top) - bottom section layer

Card recipe:

1. With your white piece of card cut and scored you now need to find the middle point on the short side that you have scored at 2-1/4" and then cut from this point to the score line on each side, then fold it over and cut the other side the same using the first side as a guide.

2. Glue all of your dsp pieces into place like in the picture below,  the small square piece of dsp (from the 2nd sheet) is cut in half diagonally to give you 2 triangles and these get glued to the bottom piece of your card.

Above - middle front and bottom section

Above - back section

3. Adjere all of your strips of card to the window sheet and cut all the edges if they hang over. Now cut the square piece that is needed for the diamond front of card. With the leftover piece you can cut the section that is needed to act as your stopper to hold the easel part in place, on the bottom section (for this piece cut it so that it measures 3-7/8" long now decide which side is going to be the top and which is the bottom and along the bottom go in 1" from each end and cut to the top corner).

4. Die cut the butterfly out of the window/card piece place dimensionals on the reverse and then after you have glued your green, white and dsp squares (for the diamond section) together adhere the window/card piece to it.

5. Stamp and die cut all of your butterflies and your many messages, I use the stamparatus for this as it makes it alot easier to stamp ( I used memento tuxedo black ink - 132708 ).Die cut them all out and using stampin write markers colour the butterflies in and then use your snips (scisssors) to seperate each butterfly. 

6. Choose which sentiment you'd like to use and glue them into place on the diamond section using wet glue or dimensionals, your choice, give the butterflies a slight curl using the bone folder and attach these with wet glue (placing the large butterfly into the recess section of the window sheet piece).

7. Apply glue to the reverse side of the diamond section making sure you only apply it where you need it (otherwise your card will glue together shut), adhere the piece for the stopper to the bottom of the card and add the sentiment and butterfly.

8. Finally I added a small heart which comes from the many messages when die cut, and the stamen, which I thought added a bit of dimension, which comes from the 'Perenial petals' dies.

And that is the card finished. I'd love if you made a version of this card if you shared it with us all over on our new facebook crafting group which is 

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Take care everyone and happy crafting!!

Huge Crafty Hugs

Natalie x

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 Product List

Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] £7.75	Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock [147014] £8.25	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] £7.00
Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana [131302] £8.25	Pacific Point A4 Card Stock [116202] £8.25	Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock [121680] £8.25
Window Sheets [142314] £4.75	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] £6.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] £3.75
Floating & Fluttering Bundle [156239] £44.00	Many Messages Bundle [156272] £46.75	Dies Perennial Petals [154321] £30.00
Stamparatus [148187] £46.00	Oh So Ombre 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [155225] £0.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] £112.00
Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] £27.50
Paper Snips [103579] £9.25	Bone Folder [102300] £6.50

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