I added this to
my blog tonight and thought I'd share it with you :) I find these little 'boxes' addictive once I get going :)
Is it a card or is it a box? Well it's both.....
This card looks like a regular card until you open it and then 'surprise' there's a little box attached.
I made these cards last year to hold school pictures of my boys I was sending out, so thought I'd take the time and share the instructions with you :)
You can use them for gift card holders or sending flat type embellishments to fellow carders as a little surprise :)
Materials:Bone Folder
Text weight paper (sheet of computer paper)
Cardstock
Patterned paper
Embellishments
Instructions:1. Cut the text weight paper to 8 1/2" x 11"
2. Fold your paper into 3 equal sections and score with your bone folder for nice sharp creases.
3. Open up your paper and take the left side and bring it to the middle and fold the edge back, do the same on the right, you should have what looks like 'french doors' now. Crease well!
4. Keep your paper folded and
FLIP it over, fold the tips back
BUT not t he 'door' flaps to make points at both ends.
5. Unfold tips and
FLIP your paper over again. Pull the 'door' flaps down towards the bottom and do this for all 4 corners.
6. Keep everything folded and
FLIP your paper over again, fold down the flap at each end.
7.
FLIP your paper over again and
UNFOLD everything, tucking the last fold
INWARD at both ends.
8. Take the
LEFT 'door' flap and fold it over the
RIGHT 'door' flap, then pull the top
LEFT section downward and fold, now do the same with the bottom section, then fold the 'door' flap back over. Repeat this for the other side.
9. Now you should have your little box!
To make up the card:Base: cut your cardstock 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", put adhesive on the bottom (back) of your box and place it centered on your base.
Flaps: cut your cardstock 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", and then cut this in half and adhere the flaps of the box to the center of each flap.
You add patterned paper at this point if your wish to cover your flaps as well.
The center panel on my card is 3" x3" and you only adhere half of the panel to the left side flap.
Embellish as you see fit :)
Happy Carding!
Tamara
Hi all, my head is so busy at the moment as we are packing to go away for a 10 day holiday to Great Keppel Island....off the north Queensland coast of Australia.....it's so exciting, we've had this planned now for a while as something spacial to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. strange how when we are the busiest we seem to get heaps done....sooo i wanted to leave you all with this tutorial for you all to try while im away. One of the ladies from my card making group bought this idea along to show me, I think its a nice change form the regular flat card fronts and looks great as a Christmas card idea. Ill post the pattern below...To make the poinsettia flower I used a large maple leaf punch cut into sections and a 1/2" circle punch to mount it on (not shown here).
I have circled the stamp i used and shown you here where to cut the leaf in sections for the flower, punch 3 leaves and cut each one in this way then mount then on the 1/2" circle punch. to add glitter to the swirly stamp i used a quickie glue pen and traced the swirls then added glitter.
Hers's another one i made. I added some more emboss lines around the edges and attached this cute little flower i learned to do by layering up 2-3 large flowers and 2 smaller ones. sponge some colour on them and put a brad through them all. Spray them with water and crunch each petal up how you would like it to sit and let dry. This works really well and dries quite hard. I then sponged a little more colour on it and added some glitter. And Ive also done a video of this card front as we all know we learn much easier by watching someone else do something.. i hope you all enjoy and catch you all when we get back!!....Valita
