FUN FOLD FRIDAY

This is an easy card fold with many possibilities.

The cardstock on the card is Night of Navy and Basic White.

The stamp set is Beauty of Friendship (pg 11).  This is also part of a Bundle found on the same page of the Annual Catalog although I did not use any Dies on this card. the Bundle shown on pg 158 is missing one of the stamped images in the picture.

The DSP is Beauty of the Earth (pg 130)

Cut your base card at 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 and score on one side at 2 1/2

The other Navy piece is 3 x 3 3/4.  With your shorter edge at the top of your scoring tool, score at 1/4".

The large white piece is 5 1/4 x 4

The small white piece is 3 1/2 x 2 5/8.

Stamp the inside message of your choice (mine is retired) on your large white layer.

Put Tombow Glue on the inside of the 1/4" flap and tuck it under the right edge of your large white layer. Then adhere your large white area to the inside of your card.

Stamp the tree on the small white piece.  I used Crumb Cake for the tree and used Merry Merlot stamped off for the solid top of the tree background and then Merry Merlot as usual for the open weave part of the tree top.

To make the sky, I used my Blending Brush (pg 129) with Balmy Blue Ink.

To make the grass around the base of the tree I dipped my Blending Pen into a little Pear Pizzazz Ink and colored until I got the effect I wanted.

To make the message I used the smallest of the Stitched Rectangle Dies and a retired message.  This is popped up with Dimensionals just on the left so that it can fold over and hold the stamped image piece down. There is a small rectangle die and a long narrow rectangle die in the set which you can use if your message fits one of them.

I used some retired Crumb Cake cord, but you could use Linen Thread and make a double bow to be a little thicker.