Bauble blooms meets concertina fold

Today’s card uses a technique called concertina fold.  The tutorial was from a fellow demonstrator called Connie Stewart.  You can view her tutorial here. I modified the measurements for a metric card and also for the width of the bauble aperture in the centre of the card. The bauble make a great aperture.

Measurements

Pretty Peackock - inside panel - 7cm x 26cm scored at 1.5cm, 3cm, 13cm, 23cm, 24.5cm

Card front and back panel x 2 - 10.5cm x 14cm

The mechanism - basic white 

13cm x 21cm, scored at 10cm, 20cm

13cm x 20cm, scored at 10cm

Top layer, balmy blue 10cm x 13.5cm - embossed with the distressed tile 3d embossing folder (retired)

Layer the 2 basic white pieces on top each other with the longer piece on the bottom with the extra 1cm being on the right.  Center the bauble die in the right 10cm panel, add a bit of washi tape to keep it in place, run through the die cutting machine. Score all folds, attach the panels together.  Fold up and run through the same embossing folder to add texture. Attach the front and back panels to the basic white mechanism. Decorate the floating layer and attach to the inside of the mechanism by lining up the folded edges.  Glue in place. 

 

Die cut 2 baubles in basic white and stamp the bauble leaves in pretty peacock ink, and the floral in balmy blue ink. 

Decorate the panel with the bauble image and stamp the leaves in balmy blue and the floral in pretty peacock.

Stamp the sentiment on basic white scrap and punch out with the heartfelt hexagon punch.

Bauble blooms tent fold in balmy blue and night of navy

 Another tent fold card today using the bauble blooms bundle. 

The first card I used the framed scenes die to cut the aperture.  I embossed the leaf part of the bauble using gold embossing powder, the flower part I embossed using retired tempting turquoise embossing powder which looks so pretty 

The second card I used the everyday frames to create the aperture and embossed with the tempting turquoise embossing powder (retired). 

Stamps used: Bauble blooms, that’s the tag (retired)

Ink: versamark, night of navy, balmy blue

Card: basic white, night of navy, gold foil, textured 12x12 shimmer paper (160838) retired 

Bauble Blooms with gold mercury vellum

A few more samples of cards using the bauble blooms stamp bundle paired with the gold mercury vellum. 

The first card on the left is a crumb cake base with a layer of real red and top layer the gold mercury vellum, the second card is just without the middle real red layer.  The baubles are stamped in versamark and gold heat embossed. 

The third card has half a panel of the gold mercury vellum and a basic white piece of card cut using the everyday arches dies which is embossed with the distressed tile 3d embossing folder (retired) and layered with versamark using the pad directly to the raised embossed pattern then sprinkled with gold embossing powder. 

Bauble blooms with a Tent fold take 2

 Here is another sample of a card using Bauble Blooms with the tent fold technique. 

Stamp set: Bauble Blooms, That’s the Tag (retired)

Ink:  versamark, real red, shaded spruce Card: basic white, Textured 12x12 Shimmer Paper 160838 (retired), real red, gold foil 

Tools: Everyday arches, Bauble Blooms dies, gold embossing powder 

Accessories: gold thread

Bauble blooms tent fold

Today I started preparing for my card classes this month and came up with a Tent fold using the stamp set called Bauble Bloom. I tried two versions, crumb cake on the left and Basic White on the right. The photos don’t go the crumb cake justice, it’s stunning, the basic white has photographed really well. 

Measurements 

1 piece crumb cake, 23cm x 10.5cm, scored at 1.5cm, 3cm, 4.5cm, 6cm, 7.5cm and 21.5

1piece crumb cake 14.5cm x 10.5cm

1 piece gold mercury vellum (retired) 10cm x 13.5cm

1piece of real red 10cm x 13.5cm

1 piece of real red 10cm x 10cm - die cut the ornament from this

1 piece of scrap crumb cake to die cut a circle for the sentiment

1 pie cod basic white 3cm x 6cm, scored down the middle - this is the mechanism for the back of the die cut window shape. 

Stamps used: Bauble Bloom

Card: crumb cake, basic white, real red, gold mercury vellum (retired)

Ink: versamark, real red

Tools: bauble bloom dies, everyday arches, small circle die, gold embossing powder, adhesive sheets (used to attach the vellum to the crumb cake