Tutorial for Frosted Designs~ Handkerchief Fold Card -- And Huge Summer Kick Off Blog Hop!!

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Now on with business!!  :o)  It's my turn to do the tutorial over at Frosted Designs and I wanted to share this fancy fold card with you, sometimes called the Handkerchief Fold Card.  But I don't want you to be discouraged when you go through the steps with me, because it really isn't that hard... The hardest thing is choosing your paper!!!  And I've added lots and lots of pictures, to help you out!! 

You are going to need the following:

1 - 12" x 12" cardstock (I used white)

3 - different coordinating colors of paper (I used 2 pieces of StampinUp Rich Razzleberry DSP and 1 piece of SU Pale Plum CS)

Something to Score your paper ( I used the Score-Pal)

Border and Corner Punches (I used MS Eyelet Lace Punch)

Ribbon ( I used SU Rich Razzleberry Ribbon)

And embellishments!

Okay, first we score our 12" x 12" piece of paper at 3" and 9"..

Now rotate your paper and score it again at 3" and 9", and using your bone folder, crease your folds... It should look like this...

Now turn it over to the back side and find the center of the page and put a dot there..

Now take all four (4) corners and bring them toward the center dot.. crease!!

It should look like this..

Now we need to get our shape... Unfold your page.. turn it over (to the front) and take the center of the top and bring to the middle .. Take the middle of one of the sides and bring it to the middle.. see what it's doing?? Do the bottom and the other side the same way.... Now crease all of the edges really good!!! Should look like this...

Now you need to punch the corners and edges... It should look like this...

Now we are going to fold up all four corners.... and crease those really good, too...

Now you are ready to decorate!!!

Here are the measurements:

Largest triangles are 2) 5 1/2" squares cut into fourths..

You can see where I attached these to the front and also the back....

Center square and back square are cut at 5 3/4" square..

Next you will need 2) 3 1/4" squares cut into fourths... you should have 8 pieces.. I used plain cardstock and then inked the edges, but feel free to use decorative paper on yours...

Now you need 1) 3 3/4" square cut into fourths for the underneath side of your corner.. Now just a word of caution here... If you are using striped paper like I did, you will need to cut 2 squares because the stripes will not be going the same way on all 4 of your pieces... Cut 2 squares and take 2 from one and 2 from the other... I hope that makes since....

You need to attach these under each corner... You just need four (4)..

You will need 1) 2 3/4" square for each corner top... I used a decorative corner punch on mine to add just a little something... 

and the white layer in the middle is cut 5 3/4 " square and then I used the MS corner and border punch on this as well...

Now you are ready to make the band to keep this baby together...

You will need a 12" x 2" piece of cardstock and some ribbon and anything else you want to decorate it with...

 I punched both sides of the 12" strip and then attached the ribbon.  Attach in the middle of your card and tie to the side...  Now you can add decorations if you like.   I used a die cut, covered it with dp and added a sticker....

And now are you ready for my finished card?!!!!

There you have it!!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and will give it a try..  And as I said before, it really isn't that hard once you find the right papers!!!

Thanks for joining me!!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Hugs!!

Tutorial ~ Dec. 26th

Hi everyone, I did this tutorial over at Frosted Designs last week and you might have seen it there.. If you did I hope you enjoyed it and if you didn't I hope you give it a try... 
This is a quick and easy way to add a little sparkle to your layouts and/or cards by using die cuts and glitter and a few other household things!

Things you will need:

Cardstock Paper

Die Cut Templates or Punches ~ I'm showing you a few different samples.. You can also use cuts from your Cricut Cartridges...

Packing Tape

Glitter ~ I used Martha Stewart Sugar Coating Glitter

Scissors

Punch or cut out your images...

Now comes the tricky part... Take a piece of the tape, sticky side up..be sure you don't get your fingerprints on the part of the tape you're going to put the glitter on or it will show... now with the right side up, stick the die cut on the tape..

sprinkle glitter over the die cut. Press the glitter with your fingers down into the cuts/holes..

Now brush off the glitter and with your scissors cut around the image as close as you can... and here are the results...

And here you can see what I did with the ornaments... I added lilac glitter on these..

A quick and easy way to add bling!!!!  I love it and I hope you do too!!
And you can see the layout I did with the butterflies here..    If you haven't visited Frosted Designs, please do, you will find all kinds of inspiration from the Design Team  and we have challenges for everyone!! 
Thanks for dropping by and come back anytime!!! 
Have a wonderful day!!!
Hugs!!!