Technique Tuesday Blog Hop

August 02, 2022

Technique Tuesday Blog Hop - Fun Folds

Hello and welcome to another Technique Tuesday Blog Hop. Our theme this week is fancy folds and I will be using a stamp and die bundle called Nature's Prints for my project.

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I do love a fancy fold don't you? So many options and decorative possibilities and so much fun to create too!

I am using Nature's Prints for my project - not the first bundle you may think of to create a Christmas card but, I am using this bundle this week for my Coffee & Cards class and I wanted to show just how versatile this bundle is.

Here is my project:

It's a Pinwheel card - they look very impressive but are very simple to make!

The colours I used:

Basic White

Garden Green

Real Red

You will need:

Real Red 10.5 cm x 15.5 cm

Real Red 10.5 cm x 7.5 cm - you will need 4

Basic White (BW) 10 cm x 7 cm - you will need 4

Basic White (BW) 10 cm x 5 cm - you will need 4

Small pieces of BW, Garden Green and Gold Foil

The cutting and scoring:

Take the 10.5 cm x 15.5 cm piece of card and score on the long edge at 2 cm, 4 cm, 6 cm and 8 cm.

To assemble

Crease all the score lines and adhere to form a column.

Add glue to each side of the pillar in turn and adhere one of the 10.5 cm x 7.5 cm panels.

When all four panels have been adhered you should end up with something that looks like this.

The decorating of the panels:

For the four smaller panels I used the stamps in the Nature's Prints set with Garden Green ink and adhered to each of the panels with Tombow.

I embossed two of the larger panels with the pine needle embossing folder that is part of the Wintry 3D Embossing Folder bundle.

I had fun decorating the other two panels for the front and back of the card using an assortment of die cuts and stamped images.

Here is the front panel:

And, here is the back panel - there is space to write a message on.

Top Tip:

I used the remaining piece of the wreath to decorate the back - waste not, want not as they say!

The sentiment:

I used the die cut label from the Nature's Prints Die and stamped a sentiment from the Peaceful Boughs stamp set in Garden Green ink. The sentiment has been adhered with dimensionals.

The details:

I added several Red Rhinestones for a little bling - I may re visit this project to add more!

Top tip:

Apart from the sentiment panel all the other stamped and die cut images have been adhered with Tombow. This enables the card to fit inside the envelope neatly.

The envelope:

I used two of the images from Nature's Prints with Garden Green ink to create a coordinating border along the bottom of the envelope.

The completed card and envelope:

For those of you who are wondering, yes it does fit inside the envelope!

Next up is Karen Egan who has another great project to share. Thanks for hopping along with us.

Susan xx

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