Hello again it's with a warm welcome to you all on this Craftalong tuesday, which is in fact the last one for March, wow can you believe it's nearly April, which will bring us the celebration of Easter and the season for all the little lambs to come into the world. I love this time of the year when all of the different pops of colour start poking through our soils and burst into a beautiful array of colour, it's so welcoming to see!
Today I have a fun fold card which is known as an impossible card for you all to have a go at, I think it's probably called this because once it's made it seems impossible to see how it was made, that's my thinking anyway. The card folds flat to fit into the envelope, and with the measurements I have for you it means that we can all get 4 yes 4 out of one sheet of A4 UK size card, so for me this is a win win card!. I think it would be a great fold to use for name places at a wedding, birthday celebration and many more celebratory functions, people would be sitting wondering how it was made, and it would probably be a subject of converstion at the table of the guests .........
So let's make the card!!
Materials needed:
Purple Posy cardstock (retiring item)
1 piece 4-1/8 x 5-7/8" for the card base
1 piece 1/2" x 3-1/2" for the sentiment strip
Scrap pieces to die cut 1 large flower and 1 smaller flower
Highland Heather cardstock
Scrap pieces to die cut 1 large flower and 1 smaller flower
Basic white cardstock
2 pieces 1-7/8" x 3-11/16" for the front and back of stand up section
1 piece 1-1/4" x 3" for the sentiment banner
Scrap pieces to die cut 1 large flower and 1 smaller flower
1 piece 2-13/16" x 4" for cutting out a template
Pear Pizzazz cardstock
Scrap piece to die cut 2 leaves
Hydrangea Hill dsp
2 pieces 2-13/16" x 4" for the 2 side panels of card base
Pastel Pearls
Highland Heather classic stampin' pad
Card Instructions:
On the Purple posy card base piece score and cut as follows:
On the short side score at 2-1/16"
On one longside cut in 1" from both ends only to the score line, turn and then cut on the opposite longside at 2-15/16" only to the score line.
Fold on the score line as follows:
Fold one side upwards towards you and the other side downwards towards yourself again so that they look like below.
This is how the card shape will look ready to decorate
Glue flat the 2 pieces of white card for the front and back of stand up section, the back one is going to be where the message can be wrote for the recipient of it.
Die cut all of the flowers and the 2 leaves give all of the petals a slight curve using the bone folder and glue the smaller flowers on to the larger ones flat, making sure you put a different colour on each of the larger ones, now add a pearl to the middle of them all.
After having punched the banner end out of the white piece of card, using highland heather ink, stamp the sentiment on it, give it a slight curve again using the bone folder.
Now we need to cut out our dsp, I found this was easier to do using a template, so here is a diagram of how I cut it:
Now this template can be placed on top of the dsp pieces one at a time and drawn round, then cut out with scissors or craft knife and rule. This is cut exactly the same for both pieces, so that they marry up with both sides of the card base. Glue these into place.
Using highland heather ink stamp the sentiment onto the strip and then glue this flat across the card base front, this helps keep the card from flapping about when picked up.
Now all that's left to do is to glue all of the flowers and leaves into place flat and then tuck the sentiment banner under the flower and glue in place.
I really enjoyed making this card for you all today and I hope you have fun making yours.
Please leave me a comment on my blog and let me know what you think.
Huge Crafty Hugs
Natale xx
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