Cary@2BGCrafting

Fun Fold Friday  

Yesterday was my son Jonathan's 40th birthday! Wow! Where has the time gone? It only seems a few years ago that I was changing his nappy (daiper), now I'm changing his baby boy's nappy!

Anyway, the card for today is his birthday card.
The card is made up with 2 pieces of A4 card, one in Blackberry Bliss and the other is Whisper White Thick card.

Jonathan's card

  

As you can see, I use lots of messages from several different stamp sets. They were...Birthday Goodness, HERE. Young At Heart, HERE Timeless Tropical, HERE . Layered with Kindness, HERE. Thanks For The Laughs, HERE and lastly, So Sentimental. HERE

Phew! Just a few!

 C6 Card instructions

I have changed the measurements to make a C6 card. If you would like the same for an A5 card, please message me. So cut 2 pieces of A4 in half, put away the other half. As I used Whisper White I have trimmed 5mm or 1/4" from 1 long and 1 short edge.

    

 Score or fold each piece in half and laying each piece on a trimmer, score 1 side of each colour diagonally. That is, from the top centre to the bottom outside edge diagonally.

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 On the trimmer, scored and ready for the next one.

                   3                                         Use your bone folder or tool to thoroughly crispen each fold in both directions. 
     It doesn't matter which way as plain card can be reversed to get the opposite direction.

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4 Add the trimmed down piece into the centre of the other, allowing a small border to be shown. 

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Somehow, my camera has reversed the picture! The white should be on the right of the card!!!

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 At this point you can see that the side overlaps the edge of the card.

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 Once folded back, I cut off the card that was overlapping each side.  It doesn't matter which way as plain card can be reversed to get the opposite direction.

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Your card will now look like the one below.

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Choose some designer series paper to go with your project. Cut 2 pieces the size of a C6 card mat. 

In the UK, that is 10cm by 14.4cm or 4" by 5 and 1/2". 

Cut these both diagonally. Note which side you want each piece before cutting as one will need to be cut in 1 direction and the other, the opposite direction.

 I used 2 pieces from the same design which made mine easier. 

I have used See A Silhouette Designer Series Paper, from Stampin' Up! of course.

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Lay the lower half of each piece onto your card base.

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You will once again have to trim the excess off as you  did with the card bases. You can chose to discard or save these pieces.

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The other half of the DSP is used for the front flaps. Mark with a pencil as I have so you know where to cut. I used these pieces on the opposite sides to before.

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Looking from the back of the card, after trimming off and fixing the papers to the card. All you need to do now is decorate to your own taste.
That's it from me for this week. Thank you so much in joining me. I hope you've been given some ideas on making your own cards. Please share them with us if you do,
Cary will be back next week with some more of her amazing creations.
Have a fun week and Happy Crafting.
Gill :)