A Fun Christmas

Good morning - it's Helen here to share a little tutorial with you to make a card using acetate.

Here's what you need to do:

1. Use a square blank measuring 14.5cm square.  Cut off the front panel of the card leaving a small flap measuring 14cm by 3 cm.  From the piece you cut away, cut an identically sized piece.  Attach a piece of acetate to the inside of the top flap, sticking the second piece across the base of the acetate in linke with the other half of the card.

2. Cover the inside of the card with patterned paper

3.  Attach strips of patterned paper to the card flaps.  Stamp the 'A Fun Christmas' stamp, colour and then mat the layers.  Attach the image panel to the top and bottom panels as shown and decorate.  Add some pearls either side of the acetate.

And here's a side view showing the pearls:

Helen x

A Fun Christmas!

Good morning - it's Helen here to share a little bit of Christmas in July inspiration and a little tutorial to make this card. 

I've used a stamp called 'A Fun Christmas' which you can find here on the Crafty Sentiments Designs website.  

First of all I stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then I coloured the image using Promarkers.  I trimmed the image to measure 10cm high by 9cm wide and then matted it on to blue card measuring 10.5cm by 9.5cm and more white card measuring 11cm by 10cm:

To create the card base I cut a piece of white card to measure 18.5cm by 13cm.  With the longest side of the card towards me, I scored at 5.5cm from the left hand side giving a folded card as shown in the photo below.  I decorated the card blank using white and blue card and patterned paper:

 I attached the image panel to the front flap of the card blank - the adhesive just needs to go on the top part of the image panel.

I finished the card with some punched snowflakes and pearls:

And here's a view from the side:

I hope you've enjoyed my little tutorial - please do leave a comment to let us know you've visited!