There's another family birthday this weekend, so I spent some time crafting Saturday evening. I really, really like the tri-fold template, so I made another one of these for this occasion. There are so many different ways to embellish these! This time around I went with papers from my favorite company, BasicGrey. Since I had a little experience under my belt, finishing this one did not take nearly as long as the first one. I definitely will be experimenting more with this type of card!
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| The card closed |
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| The box |
This weekend my family and I attended a wedding. Since this was a truly special occasion, I felt I needed to go above and beyond when I crafted their card. This card style is known as a tri-fold shutter card, and while the card base looks complicated, it was actually fairly easy. It only required a scoring board and two cuts with an Exacto knife. The hard part was deciding how to embellish it, but the process was fun, and in the end I was really happy with the finished project. I ended up having to craft a small box for it though, as it was way too bulky to fit in an envelope!
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| The card fully opened |
Wow, I can hardly believe that August is already here! It's already shaping up to be a busy crafting month. There are two family birthdays, and I'm currently working on two cross-stitch projects that will be baby shower gifts. (I'm running a little behind on that one, so I'm going to need to work on that this coming weekend!) Here's a pic of the first birthday card of the month...had to wait to post it until after my sister-in-law's birthday. (I'm hoping the snail mail has delivered it to her by now!) Stay tuned: I'm currently working on a card for a wedding I'm attending this weekend. It's the longest card project I've done--worked on it for close to three hours last night and I expect to work on it for a few more hours before I'm done.
Wow, I can hardly believe that August is already here! It's already shaping up to be a busy crafting month. There are two family birthdays, and I'm currently working on two cross-stitch projects that will be baby shower gifts. (I'm running a little behind on that one, so I'm going to need to work on that this coming weekend!) Here's a pic of the first birthday card of the month...had to wait to post it until after my sister-in-law's birthday. (I'm hoping the snail mail has delivered it to her by now!) Stay tuned: I'm currently working on a card for a wedding I'm attending this weekend. It's the longest card project I've done--worked on it for close to three hours last night and I expect to work on it for a few more hours before I'm done.