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Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Fancy Fold Card Duo
I pulled out the remaining items I have from the kit.
Looking these items over I thought I would create a couple of fancy fold cards.
The first is a Bridge Card design.
I started by cutting down a piece of the white card stock in the kit to 11 x 7 inches.
Then scored it at 1 1/2, 3, 8 and 9 1/2 inches. Fold and burnish as in the photo below.
To add some color to the white card stock I applied gold gilding wax around the edges of
the 2 outside panels and the center panels. The 2 interior panels were completely covered.
Next, I cut pieces of solid and patterned card stock to cover the card base and chose one of the toppers from the kit to use as the focal on the card.
One piece of burgundy card stock was cut to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches, 2 pieces were cut to 1 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches.
A piece of gold was cut to 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches.
The patterned paper from the kit was cut to just under 4 x 6 inches.
I layered the larger burgundy, gold and patterned pieces of card stock and adhered to the center of the card.
The thinner burgundy panels are added to the 2 outside panels.
Pop the topper with foam tape to the center of the card.
We need a “bridge” for our card, so I cut a piece of patterned paper to
1 x 8 inches and a piece of gold 1 1/4 x 8 inches. Adhere these pieces together and attach to the 2 outside panels with the lower edge about 1/2 inch from the bottom of the card.
Next I applied gold gilding wax to 2 of the wooden embellishments from the kit and adhered them to the side panels.
I die cut a “Happy Birthday” sentiment and added it to the center of the bridge.
To finish this card, I pulled out the small white 49 & Market flowers from the
August Cards, Tags and More Kit. A little pink ink was applied to them.
They were added to the wooden embellishments.
Start by cutting down a piece of the white card stock from the kit to 10 x 7 inches.
Score along the 10 inch side at 2 1/2 and 5 inches.
Make a mountain fold on the 2 1/2 inch score line and a valley fold on the 5 inch score line.
Take a 1 1/2 x 10 piece of white card stock, score at 5 and 7 1/2 inches.
Do a mountain fold on the 5 inch score line and valley fold on the 7 1/2 inch score line.
I pulled out some of the cut aparts, one of the topper pages and a scrap piece of patterned paper from the kit.
Cut 2 pieces of pink card stock to 2 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches and one piece to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches.
Piece together the larger cut apart with pink flowers and scrap patterned paper onto a piece of white card stock. Lace was added where the two pieces come together.
I pulled out the “left over” part from one of the large toppers.
This will be used to frame the piece just put together.
Adhere the pink card stock to card base.
Glue the frame to the cut apart piece.
I added a 1/4 inch wide piece of pink card stock to the lace on this piece, under the frame.
It’s time to add the narrow z-fold piece. Add 3 pieces of pink card stock.
Two pieces are cut 1 x 2 1/4 inches and one is cut to 1 x 4 3/4 inches.
Pieces of the lace are also added.
Adhere this piece to the card base about 1/2 inch from the bottom,
with the 5 inch length on the left side and the other end to the right side.
I then took one of the smaller cut aparts and framed it similarly to the larger one.
For a sentiment, I took a round vellum die cut from this month’s
Tres Jolie Scrapbook Kit and cut circle die cut to place behind it.
Adhere the large cut apart piece to the center of the left panel of the card.
Glue the smaller cut apart to the right side of the card on the top half. I also place it far enough over that the larger cut apart covers it when the card is closed.
Add the sentiment to the right side of the card near the bottom,
again placing where it is covered when the card is closed.
The card is complete.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my project and I’ve provided you with a little inspiration!
Thanks so much Kim, for allowing me to Guest Design these last 2 months.
I have truly enjoyed working with your Tres Jolie Kits.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
An Elegant Triple Easel Card
Hi there! It’s Judy here with my first Guest Designer project for Tres Jolie Kit Club for the month of September.
I am using this month’s Card’s Tags and More Kit. This kit includes 6, 8 x 8 double sided papers and 3 sheets of toppers from Katy Sue Designs.
There’s also a pack of Prima Flowers, Wood Embellishments from…
A cutting die from Frantic Stampers, a yard of lace and 8 A4 sheets of white card stock.
My project is An Elegant Triple Easel Card.
I started by die cutting 3 shaped card bases using the card stock included in the kit. These cards are 3 different sizes, a large, medium and small. You can just create 3 square cards if you do not have shaped dies.
I also pulled out one of the topper sheets and will use one for each card, again in a large, medium and small size.
The inside edges of each card were inked with a metallic gold ink pad.
Next I did some more die cutting.
Red card stock was cut and added to the inside of each card.
Gold foil card stock was die cut for each card front.
Red rectangles were cut to add to the card fronts.
The gold die cuts were adhered to the bottom half of the card fronts and the red rectangles layered over them.
I die cut a piece of white card stock to layer onto the red die cut inside the large card.
Next I die cut gold circles to add to the card fronts before adding the adhering the toppers.
To finish the largest card I fussy cut some flowers from one of the patterned papers to the inside to act as the easel “stopper”.
A sentiment was die cut and adhered to the front and the fussy cut flowers were added to the inside with foam tape for the stopper piece.
Now to finish the 2 smaller cards.
I took one of the cut apart pieces and fussy cut more flowers. These will be combined with one of the wooden embellishments from the kit to act as the stoppers.
The wooden embellishment piece was painted with green metallic paint which came from last month’s Mixed Media Kit. It was cut into 2 pieces once the paint dried.
Add one of the wooden pieces and some of the fussy cut flowers to the medium size card.
Embellishments are added to the smallest card.
Adhere the medium card to the right corner of the large card.
Add the small card to the left corner of the large card.
This side by side triple easel card is complete.
See photo of the collapsed card below
Display view of the completed card.
I hope you like my Elegant Triple Easel Card and have inspired you to give one a try.
See my YouTube tutorial for more detail.
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