craftykarendesigns: Tea Boutique Diagonal Pocket Card

Hi Everyone,

It's another Fun Fold Friday for the Stampin' Birds this week and I have been inspired by a project that I saw Wendy Cranford do recently. I've used the lovely new Tea Boutique designer series paper which shows off the new In-Colours and I'm using the Tahitian Tide (my favourite). Let me show you how I made it, I've tweaked Wendy's measurements to account for the difference between US Letter and A4 sizes. I've used a couple of stamp sets and several punches for this card just to show how versatile Stampin' Up! products are and how well they all go together.

Materials

1 whole sheet of Tahitian Tide A4 card trimmed to 8 1/4" x 11 1/2"

1 piece of basic white card 3 7/8" x 3 1/2", scrap for the sentiment

1 piece of dsp 4" x 5 1/2" (cut in two on the diagonal), scraps for the flowers

Scraps of parakeet party for the leaves

Memento Black ink

Tahitian Tide ink

Flowers of Friendship stamp set

Quiet Meadow stamp set

Flowers & Leaves Punch

Bough Punch

Double Oval Punch

Iridescent Rhinestones

Trimmer

Multipurpose adhesive

Dimensionals

Bone Folder

Instructions

Score the card stock at 5 7/8" on the long side and then turn and score at 4 1/8" on the short side.

Fold the card stock in half on the 4 1/8" score line and then cut diagonally (while folded) from the outer, open edge to the centre score line. This will give you the two overlapping triangles which fold in opposite directions. Burnish the score lines at the sides.

Add the dsp triangles to the card triangles and fold with the one you want on the top, you may need to trim a tiny piece of the end of the underneath one if the scoring is slightly out (mine was) when you fold it closed. Then add a thin bead of glue along the bottom of each triangle and fold one over the other and seal in place to form the pocket.

Stamp a sentiment towards the bottom of the basic white piece so that it won't show until you pull it out of the card. I've added splodges from the Quiet meadow stamp set and then stamped some of the small flowers on a piece of dsp and punched them out and added them to this card. Slip this card inside the pocket and push it right down so that it shows a border of the Tahitian Tide at the top.

I stamped some additional flowers and punched them out as well as some of the boughs using some scraps of parakeet party card.

Stamp the sentiment on a scrap of white and punch out with the scalloped oval punch and add to the card front using dimensionals. Arrange the flowers and leaves around the sentiment as seen in the picture. Add some rhinestones to the centre of the flowers.

I do hope that you like my card and will give it a try. Please pop over and see what Donna and Victoria have made too.

Donna Lester

Taffycrafting

Victoria Littlewood

Vickieloudesigns

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Happy Crafting,

Karen X