Floral TriFold Acetate Card

Hello everyone! Today, I've got a trifold card to share and the front page is an acetate floral covered layer. I've decorated all the pages on this card, so here's a look at it.

Paper Rose Studio Supplies Used: Alana Flower Metal Cutting Die 21078, Celebrate Layered Metal Cutting Die 17454, Lovely Florals Blossom Flowers 4x6" Clear Stamp Set 18183.  

Other Supplies:  Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Sparkles Powder in Coral Crush and Pumpkin Patch, and Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powder in Mango Blaze.

I started this card by creating the flowers first.  I sprinkled the Pixie Sparkles and Pixie Powders over a sheet of white cardstock and then spritzed it liberally with water.  These are "explosion" powders, so they react with the water by spreading out with colour and you never know what you'll get.  I just made sure I had enough cardstock coloured up for all my flowers, and tried to have a slight range of colour variation.  After the cardstock was dry, I used the Alana Flower dies to cut out all the flowers.  I created 3 layered  flowers to go on the front of the card, and shaped them slightly by using a ball stylus in the centres.  I glued these layers together.  For the second page of flowers, I heat embossed in white, the secondary sentiments which came from the Lovely Florals stamp set.

To assemble the card, I cut a piece of acetate that was 4 3/4" wide by 5 1/2" tall and scored this at 1/2" along one long (5 1/2") side.  I placed some double sided adhesive on both sides of the flap created by the score line, and used my bone folder to fold and burnish the fold.  I attached the acetate layer to my A2 card base, by aligning the folded edge of acetate to the left side of the card base, removed the release paper on the bottom side of the flap, and folded the acetate flap onto the card base.  Then I placed another piece of cardstock that measured 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" over top of the acetate flap section (which is now the middle section of the card), and secured it by removing the release paper on the acetate, and adding glue to the rest of the section.

I wanted the flowers on the second page to be hidden by the front cover flowers, so I attached the front 3 layered flowers to the acetate using glue and making sure that they were slightly spread apart. To get the middle layer of flowers lined up, I placed the flowers face down on the inside of the acetate layer, added some glue to the centre of the flowers, and then carefully closed the back of the card down so that it would pick up the glued flowers in the right spot.  Because I used glue, I had a little bit of time to check that the second layer of flowers were hidden from the front. I made sure that the florals with the secondary sentiments were on top on the second page.  Finally, I added the remaining flowers to the front of the card and on the inside layer.  I then added some pearls on the card front to the centre of the flowers.  

I die cut the sentiment three times and stacked them together with glue.  I cut the shadow layer from pink vellum and adhered the white sentiment to this with glue.  Finally, I attached the sentiment to the card front with glue. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope I've given you a little inspiration for your card making!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See-Through Christmas Tree Card

Hello everyone, I'm so glad you stopped by.  I've got a Christmas card again to share with you today, and I must say I can never get these done early enough!

Supplies Used:  Christmas Fir Tree Large Metal Cutting Die 20589,  Poinsettia - Silver Foil 6x6 Paper Collection 27277, Crisp Christmas A5 12pc Sentiment Sheets 19772, holographic silver cardstock, gemstones, acetate (4.25" x 5.5").

I started this card by die cutting the tree out of white cardstock three times, and once from holographic silver cardstock.  I was very careful with the silver one and one of the white ones, to not loose the inset pieces, so I placed Glad Press 'N Seal onto the back of the diecut to keep all those little bits in place. The triple layers of the tree helps to give support to the acetate and keeps the card front from bending.  

I glued two of the white trees together, and then glued this onto a scrap piece of acetate.  The acetate gave me something to inlay the diecut pieces onto, but won't show up in the final card.  I trimmed this acetate so it didn't extend past the outside edges of the tree.  Then I used a fine tipped glue to inlay the white diecut pieces.  I only inlaid the non-circle pieces, as I knew I was going to put the gemstones in where the circles were.  The purpose of inlaying these white pieces was to make sure the holographic ones would show up better and not be lost in the depths of the tree.  I know that seems like an extra step, but I do think it was worth it and it really didn't take too long to do.  So the next step was to inlay the holographic pieces over the white inlaid ones. Then I glued the gemstones in place.  I also have a holographic tree now to use on another card. 

I used a top folding A2 sized card base (4.25 x 5.5"), and trimmed the front down to be 1.5" (or 4mm).  I also cut two strips from the Poinsettia silver foil cardstock, to be 4.25" x 1.5" ( 11 mm x 4 mm).  I also cut one of these strips from white cardstock.

On the card front, I used my tape gun to adhere the 4.25 x 5.5" piece of acetate over the remaining top front.  I found this easiest to do by lining up the bottom edge of the acetate with the bottom edge of the card base and then easing the acetate down onto the upper edge of the card.  

Next, I adhered the white strip of cardstock to the inside bottom edge of the acetate. I used my tape gun to apply adhesive over the white cardstock, then I lined it up flush with the bottom edge of the card base, and carefully lowered the acetate over it so it was all flush with the edges of the card base.  Finally, I adhered the silver foiled paper over the acetate, again using my tape runner.  Finally, I cut little strips of the metallic silver cardstock and glued them in place along the edges of the silver foiled cardstock.  I mounted the sentiment onto some more metallic silver cardstock.  To finish the card, I glued the tree onto the card front and added the sentiment above.  On the inside of the card front, I glued the third white cardstock tree shape over top of the front tree to give a clean finish.

Thank you so much for stopping by, and I hope you're having a very creative day!