Fun fold Friday Submarine Life

 Happy Friday everyone 😀 and welcome to my final post for this week using the fab Submarine Life stamps and coordinating punch. Today as always on a Friday it's a fun fold and I had this one in mind as soon as I saw the stamp set!

Called a diorama card this version is very easy thankfully! It all starts with 2 pieces of cardstock measuring 10.5cm x 14.5cm and another piece measuring 12.5cm x 10.5cm.

Take both of the longer pieces and score at 1cm and 2 cm in from each end on the long side.  Next you'll need to create an appature in the center of one of these pieces.  Then a slightly smaller appature in the center of the smaller piece of cardstock. These appatures can be any shape you can use dies, punches or cut them yourself. 

Now I suggest that you gather all the item you wish for the scene you'll be building within the card. I chose to fussy cut a lot of the elements from the submarine Life stamps as they are just too cute 😍.  Once you have the pieces fold the score lines on the 2 larger pieces of cardstock starting with a valley fold then a mountain fold on all four sides. You are then going to sandwich the 3rd piece in-between the folds to create the diorama. But don't adhere anything until you are happy with the scene adding any stamped or texture to the panels in advance. When your happy adhere the sides together sandwiching the center panel so that it resembles the image below. 

The great thing about a diorama card is that you get to create a real 3d scene out of 2d materials!

Achieve the look by adhering your details at different levels within the appature.  I have used a small scrap of acetate so that the submarine appears too be floating through the sea! It's great fun to create 😀

You can add a panel measuring 10cm x 10cm on the back to give you a place to write your message and another area to decorate of course 😉 

Now don't worry the card will still fold flat for posting and with the dimensions given will fit a standard C6 envelope. 

Well that's  all from me this week but don't panic Gill will be here next week sharing her inspiration with us all. So please remember to pop by 😀

Have a great weekend and..

Have fun

Cary xx