fresh & fun

Supplies needed:

• Paper cutter with cutting and scoring blade
• 3 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ piece of cardstock for card base (here So Saffron)
• one 3 1/4″ square of designer paper….or two if you want different colors on each triangle
• Stamps
• Ink
• Scissors and adhesive
• Ribbon to close the card
• Embellishments

Step one: Score your card base at 3 1/2″ and 7″.

Step two:

Score the right of the three panels diagonal from inside bottom to the outside top corner. 

Then score the left side of the three panels diagonal from the inside top to the outside bottom corner.

Step three: Fold and unfold all your scores.

Step four:

Take your 3 1/4″ piece of designer paper and cut it in half diagonally.

 

Step five (optional):

If you want two different designer paper, take another 3 1/4″ square and cut it in half diagonally as well. Be careful in planning the diagonal cut when you have directional pattern on your paper.

 

Step Six:

Tape your designer paper triangles on your outer card base triangles.

 

Step seven:

Tie your card shut by running a ribbon all around it and tying a bow.

 

Step eight:

Stamp your center image.

Step nine (mini tutorial on the spiral punch):

Take your spiral punch and turn it upside down. Slide your cardstock all the way in and punch.

 

Step ten (mini tutorial on the spiral punch):

Slide your cardstock over until the last punched slit slides into the little guide on the right hand side. Punch again. (I love this punch!!!)

 

Step eleven:

Add extra layers to the main image if needed! Like Jami says….More is More. LOL

 

Step twelve:

Add adhesive only on one diagonal half of the back of your main image. If you add adhesive on the entire back, your card won’t open later.

Step thirteen:

Tape your main image on your closed card front.

 

Step fourteen:

Add embellishments to finish the card.

I am sorry about the different sized pictures. I will have to work on that in my future tutorials.

I will skip today’s challenge. I want to stamp invitations for my downline meeting in San Antonio. We will be going back home for a week at the end of March during our kids spring break! I can’t wait to go back to San Antonio and see my sweet stamping daughters, Jenn and Rick’s family again.

I knew the set I wanted to use was Office Accoutrement . I also knew I wanted to make this triangle trifold card. I will try to post a tutorial for this later. It’s easy and cute.

I started with a 3 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ strip of So Saffron. That was scored at 3 1/2″ and 7″. The two outer panel were scored diagonal and then folded over. Then I cut a 3 1/4″ piece of Notations Designer paper in half diagonally and taped one triangle on each fold over flap. I stamped the date stamp in chocolate on White cardstock, added the date in taken with teal marker and used the spiral punch on the left hand side. I punched a round tab with the tab punch and added important message. Three flowers were stamped on each in Cool Caribbean, So Saffron and Certainly celery.

I got my Adobe Photoshop Element program yesterday. I was so excited. So after I made this card, I tried it out. Of course I couldn’t figure it out by myself (Instructions you say? What’s that? Aren’t you supposed to ignore those and just play around?) I had to call sweet friend Jenn. She helped me out. Even with Jenn’s help it took me longer to resize and add the watermark my friend Beth Silaika designed, then to come up with this card. If you like the watermark and would like one of your own, Beth can design them for you. Check her new blog Freckled Fun! She also designs Blog Banners.