Garden Trifold

Hello again - hope you're having a good weekend.   Today I've got a trifold card to share featuring 3 garden images in a circle designed to give a peek through from one layer to the other with the fabulous easy to use products from Art Impressions.  

If you're new to Art Impressions as a brand as we've not had them in stock for over 18 months then do check them out as they are different to lots of the brands we stock - they have a wide range of different "collections" from humourous images to elements designed to piece together your own watercolor masterpieces.   They also do a few different ranges of "interactive" stamp and die sets like the circlet trifold I've used today, or others where characters swing, wobble, cycle, twist or pop - all with easy to follow instructions making interactive cards easy to create.

For my card I used the Gardening Circlet which has 3 layers - a background with a garden and shed, a middle layer of birds on a wire and a front images of a garden bench and flowers.   You simply measure your card as per the instructions and fold into 3 (FYI - I went with a taller card than the measurements suggest - as long as you keep the width measurements so the folds work you can make any height you like).  

Once you have the base measurements, you stamp the front layer on the left fold and use the die cut, then fold over the right hand layer and lightly trace the edge of the circle with pencil.   This gives you a guide to where to stamp the bird layer and die cut as before.  

Then fold the right hand layer over the middle panel and trace so you can stamp the base image which needs to cuts but you should now have a trifold with all the layers lined up.   I actually made a mistake stamping the middle layer - I should have used my stamp positioner but was being lazy - however all is not lost - I just cut another panel of white card and glued it on top and did it again.

To finish the card I just coloured all 3 layers with pencils - the easiest option for me with small images as you can get fine detail with sharp pencils - and then I used some patterned paper scraps to cover the first two layers.   I used a circle die just one size larger than the circlet to cut out the hole to allow the image to show - lining it up by holding the paper cut to size in position over the card and tracing the die cut image edge on top - I use my window as a light box for things like this.   The birthday sentiments on the front two layers are from MFT's Bitty Birthday Wishes.

Hope that shows that interactive cards don't need to be scary to create if you have good products to do it with.

NEWS FROM THE STORE

We managed to get through a couple of the arrivals last week so Colorado Craft Company and Mama Elephant are live but still have MFT and Waffle Flower to finish loading - we'll do some of that today.

We have some stuff from Altenew (not the latest - we will always be behind due to processing times and shipping as we never list stuff until we have it in store to ship) and Concord and 9th in transit and they will arrive this week - when they get added depends on how busy we are packing and how long it takes to process it as there is a lot of new stuff coming and it all takes time.   Check the "new arrivals" section or follow and engage with us on Facebook to keep us in your newsfeed so you see news as it happens.

That's all for today.

Laters

Tara