SUOC#273 - Use DSP

 

Hello again everyone and welcome to the SUOC#273 where this week we are looking at using our designer series papers, and I don't know about all of you but I have a fair few that are going to very soon be retiring so I need to get my skates on and get them used up!  So today I have what's known as a double pleat fold on my card, this is a great way of showing both sides of your paper off at the same time. It's a really easy folding technique and I think it looks cool on the front of any card for any occasion, so let's get started!.

Materials needed:

Basic white thick cardstock

1 piece A4 (UKsize) card cut on longside at 14.85cm and 10.5cm on shortside - cardbase of which you will get 2 from 1 sheet

1 piece - 10.5cm x 2.4cm - for the sentiment layers

1 piece of scrap to die cut the sentiment tab

Basic white cardstock

1 piece - 10.1cm x 14.45cm - for inside of card layer

Merry Merlot cardstock

1 piece - 10.1cm x 7.2cm - front of card embossed layer

Bumble Bee cardstock

1 piece - 10.1cm x 7.2cm - front of card embossed layer

1 piece - 10.3cm x 2.2cm - for the sentiment layers

Fine Art Floral DSP

1 piece - 5" x 10" - for the pleated fold piece on front of card

Gilded Gems

Ornate Floral 3D embossing folder

Card instructions

Fold and burnish the cardbase and adhere the inside layer to it.

Place the 2 pieces of coloured cardstock into the embossing folder together and emboss them through the Stampin' cut and emboss machine, or whichever one you have. These 2 pieces can be adhered flat to the front of the cardbase.

Now you need to work on the pleated section for the front of the card as follows:

On the 10" side you need to score in inches at : 1, 1-1/2, 2-1/2, 3, 4, 4-1/2, 5-1/2, 6, 7, 7-1/2,   8-1/2 and 9. Now on the 10" side mark both sides at 4-1/2" and 5-1/2", turn to the 5" side and mark both sides again at 2" and 3". Now you need to cut the four corners off using the marks as a guide.

Do the same in each corner lining the marks up together to cut.

Now you need to fold the paper into the pleats : The first fold will be a mountain fold (make sure the paper you want showing is facing towards you), then a valley fold, mountain fold and so on until the middle, then turn and do the opposite side exactly the same. I've made 2 cards using both sides of the paper to show how different they look so my paper is with the opposite side facing me for the pictures shown.

one side

both sides

Now I like to glue the edges down on both sides to just give it a nice neat finish, and it keeps it flat on the front of the card too.

Once the pleated section is adhered flat to the cardbase you can attach the two pieces of card for the sentiment layers into place, these are adhered flat with glue, the sentiment tab once stamped (I used Merry Merlot ink) can be adhered using a few mini dimensionals. Adhere 2 of the gilded gems into place and that's the card completed.

This is the other card I've made using the opposite side of the dsp and adding flirty flamingo card at the bottom instead of using bumble bee.

Two cards made exactly the same way but both with a different look to them, and how simple was it to make them, and I liked that it took one sheet of card, one sheet of 12" x 12" dsp and a few bits of coloured cardstock to make!!

Hope you enjoyed todays project? Would love to see what you can come up with using DSP, why not join in with the fun and show us all over on the SUOC#273 using the inlink below all of the lovely samples made by the rest of the design team!

Shall look forward to all of the lovely designs you all come up with, take care till next time!

Huge Crafty Hugs

Natalie xx

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Product List

Art Gallery Bundle [156227] £46.75	Fine Art Floral 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [154558] £10.75	Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder [152725] £8.25
Gilded Gems [152478] £6.50	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] £7.75	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] £9.00
Bumblebee A4 Cardstock [153082] £8.25	Merry Merlot A4 Cardstock [147005] £8.25	Merry Merlot Classic Stampin' Pad [147112] £7.00
Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] £112.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] £3.75	Bone Folder [102300] £6.50	Clear Block G [118489] £4.25

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