Tri-fold Shutter Christmas Card

Well, I know I mentioned a while back that I had made a card to submit at work for a contest. It took a little bit to find out if anyone from our store had won and sadly, no one did. There were two other ladies who submitted entries and their cards were both beautiful. If you like Tim Holtz you need to check out Ruby's entry here: http://rubycraft.blogspot.com/2011/10/collectors-edition.html. Her work is just beautiful, so don't miss out, go check it out!!! Ruby is a huge Tim Holtz fan and is participating in his 12 Tags. Her work is stunning, just saying!

Now onto the card that I submitted. I really wanted to do something a little different, not just a regular A2 card and I had been wanting to make a tri-fold shutter card for a long time and just never got around to it. This was the perfect opportunity to give it a try. If you have not seen a tri-fold card, they are really beautiful and very easy to make.



If you would like to give it a try you will need a piece of card stock cut to 5 1/2 x 12. On my card I used Cloverleaf Bazzill paper, which is such a pretty color and really went well with the My Mind's Eye 6 x 6 Lost and Found Christmas paper I planned to use. You will take your paper and put it in your Martha Stewart scoreboard horizontally and score the paper at 2, 4, 8 and 10 inches. You will then take your paper and turn cardstock a 1/4 turn. Along the long edge, measure in 1 1/2 inches and make a slit with your craft knife between the score marks at 2 inches and 10 inches. You will repeat this step along the other side of the card.



You will want to fold the card to look like this. You will then decorate as you like. There are lots of great ways these cards can be decorated, just use your imagination and go wild, lol! On my card as mentioned above, I used the paper from My Mind's Eye, Lost and Found Christmas. The moment I saw this cardstock, I fell in love. It is just gorgeous with the colors they used in it and the glitter that is on the 12 x 12 cardstock. I used Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist over the designer paper to give it some sparkle. It turned out very pretty, and wasn't to overwhelming on the card.



The front of the card I did contemplate what should go on there for some time and then decided that the Martha Stewart's scoreboard needed to come out again so I could make a rosette to decorate the front of the card. The tip to making these rosettes, I have found is to cut your cardstock, staple it together and the start scoring and folding. Helps so the ends will meed up correctly. You will also need a good glue gun and depending on how big you want the rosette to be, make the circles on's on ether end bigger than shown on the instructions. I then used the accessory pack and picked up a beautiful sticker for the middle of the rosette.

I really love this card and think that it came out rather beautiful


Well I hope you enjoyed today's post, I know it has been a long time comeing. This tine of year leaves little for crafting, sigh... I would love to be doing this all. Oh well, a girl cane dream right, lol. Hope you all enjoyed this card and give it a shot. If you do, let me know what you think, if it was easy or hard.

You all have a wonderful weekend and, if I don't post again for Christmas, I hope you all have a great Christmas and New Years and please be safe!!!!

Happy Stampin and Scrappin
Come back again soon!!!

Ronda