Do you ever make a card love it, then when you go back to look at it again realise you made a mistake? But you also realise it's too late! Well that's exactly what's happened with today's inspiration! I made the card using the beautiful Friends of the ocean pattern papers. I just love the beautiful bright colour palette used for these fun papers.
The colours and patterns in this paper just work so well together. I love using paper packs because you know they're going to coordinate together with out any hard decisions!
The card base is a very easy fun fold version of a gatefold. For this card I made a belly band to secure it closed. Which just slips on and off .
The card base is 14.85cm x 21cm scored at 5.25cm, 10.5cm and 15.75cm ( 8½" x 5½" scored at 2⅛", 4¼" and 6⅜"). The scores are folded as valley, mountain then valley.
The fun surprise on the inside is the pop out. Create the pop out mechanism before decorating the card base.
To create the pop out mechanism all you need is a piece of cardstock measuring 4cm x 12 cm scored at 2cm, 4cm, 5cm, 7cm, 8cm and 10cm (1½" x 4½" scored at ¾", 1½", 1⅞", 2⅝", 3" and 3¾"). Fold the scorelines as valley, mountain, mountain, mountain, mountain then valley. Adhere a piece of cardstock measuring 4cm x 5cm (1½" x 2") to the center panel as shown below.
Then adhere the mechanism to the center panel of the cardbase on the left hand side as shown below. Taking care to adhere just upto but not on the center scoreline.
Next adhere the other side, again upto but not on the scoreline , as shown here.
Now decorate as desired. Make sure that your pop out portion doesn't extend beyond the center of the card base. You want the card to close flat over the center decoration.
This fun fold stands beautifully on the mantlepiece yet folds flat for posting.
Can you spy my big boo-boo 👀? 🤣 it wasn't until I was writing this post that I realised what I'd done 😳 Even after all these years I still make those silly mistakes 😜
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