Pop-Out Card

Hi Bloggers.

Had a great day yesterday at Phill's Martin's Sheffield Store - it was lovely to see so many of Phill's customers. Hands are now clean by the way!

I have a pop-out card to share with you today -

I started with 2 pieces of A4 Coconut White Card. I scored both of them on a scoreboard to Half Fold A4. One of them I scored along the A4 Gatefold lines on both sides. I trimmed both pieces to 6 1/2" tall.

When making a pop-out card, it's easiest to decorate the outside and the inside pieces separately before assembly. I've used Phill Martin's Snowflake 8 x 8 Paper Pad throughout.

So, let's look at the inside first -

I used the largest die from the Justrite Snowflake and Tags Dies from the centre along the middle fold. I positioned the die slightly closer to the top edge of the card.

I stamped a little motif from the Justrite Large Oval Christmas Wishes Stamp Set in the 4 corners of the inner section using Phill Martin CS Chic Aubergine Colour Cloud applied with a Smoothie.

For the panels, I used one of Phill's papers and matted it onto another paper, but used the plain side for the mat. I stamped the Let it Snow image from the same stamp set, onto Coconut White Card using Chic Aubergine Colour Cloud. I cut it out using a die from the Justrite Hope Oval Frame Dies.

I cut the inner snowflake die from the Justrite Snowflake and Mini Tags Die Set out of Coconut White Card twice. I glued them back to back securing a piece of Beading Thread in between them. I hung this from the aperture, securing with tape and added a Purple Dazzler. This completed decoration of the inner piece.

I then decorated the outiside card. I needed to put a piece of patterned paper inside it first - this is seen through the aperture in the inside piece. I cut a patterned paper slightly shorter than the card - so 6 1/4" is fine, by 7" wide. I folded it in half. I ran some CS Glue along the 2 long edges only - the paper has to be free to move. I left it folded and added it to the fold of the Coconut White Card and then closed the card over it. When you open it up, you will see a gap at the fold between the paper and the card. This is correct - it needs to be there so that the paper folds correctly when the card is closed and doesn't bunch up (hope that makes sense).

Now to the front of the card. I dusted a piece of patterned paper from Phill's Paper Pad with an Anti-Static Pad and stamped the sentiment from the Justrite Inside and Outside Christmas Sentiments Stamp Set using Clear Perfect Medium and embossed with CS True White Detail Embossing Powder. I matted the paper onto another paper, using the plain side.

I cut the large snowflake die from the Justrite Snowflake and Tags Die Set out of Coconut White Card twice. I cut the inner die from the same set out of the plain side of one of the papers twice and added an 8mm White Pearl to the centre.

I added some Single White Pearl Strips around the edges of my front panel.

I stamped the smaller of the poinsettias from the Justrite Multi-Step Poinsettia Stamp Set onto Coconut White Card using Phill Martin CS Chic Aubergine Colour Cloud applied using a Smoothie. I stamped the veins and the centres using Watering Can Archival. I used the Justrite Multi-Step Poinsettia Dies to cut the flower and centre out. I cut a pair of leaves out of Coconut White Card using Sue Wilson's Pine Twig Dies.

To assemble the card, I added CS Glue to the back of one of the inside panels and lined it up with the edge of the inside of the font of the card. I repeated the process with the other inside panel and the back of the card.

You can see another pop-out card I've made here.

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The winner of the card from Freebie Friday on October 7th is ........................

June Fletcher

Please email me at juliawattscrafts@gmail.com with your address and I'll pop your card in the post.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
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