Welcome to this month's Around the World on Wednesday blog hop. If you've not visited us before, we hop on the second Wednesday of every month with a theme to inspire you. It's 'around the world' because we represent each time zone that Stampin' Up! operates in: from New Zealand (me) all the way around to Hawaii.
Our theme for this month is 'Let's Shake it Up'. While that could be seen as making a shaker card, the team have taken it be let's shake up what we do and try something new.
If you've followed me for a while, you might have realised that I've seldom shown you fancy folds or projects heavy on DSP. That's because I'm much more of a texture over patterns person. Mixing DSP patterns terrifies me!
As to fancy folds - well, I'm pretty fussy. They have to be easy to make. They have to stand up by themselves. They have to be easy for the recipient to understand and display. Having said that, my daughter made me an Arrowhead fold card a couple of years ago and I loved it. It also intimidated me and fascinated me. Time shake things up and embrace this fold! And I'll take on DSP while I'm at it!
So, it turned out that the Arrowhead fold is not actually difficult at all, while looking fiendishly difficult. To make this, I read/watched a few different tutorials but it comes down to two simple scores lines and two simple measurements.
1. Cut a card base 29cm x 10.5cm (I cut the A4 card short to make the maths easier but you don't have to.)
2. Score the card base at 14.5 cm to make a tent fold base.
3. Make a pencil mark half way along the bottom. (i.e. at 5.25cm)
4. Make a pencil mark half way up each of the sides (i.e. at 7.25cm)
5. Score from the centre bottom to the centre sides.
6. Now score from the centre bottom to each of the top corners of the card front.
7. Fold and burnish the centre-bottom to top-corner folds inwards then fold the mid-bottom to mid-side scores outwards. Glue or tape the folds to the card front so they don't unfold.
8. Take a piece of DSP 14cm x 10cm. Mark half way across the short side (5cm) and cut from there to the top corners to make 3 triangles. Then choose which of the sides will go on the arrowhead and which side will be showing on the card base.
DONE!
Of course, the co-ordinating nature of Stampin' Up! DSP means that really no-one should be scared of mixing and matching different patterns. Certainly the wonderful new Harvest Meadow DSP is both gorgeous and easy to use.
To decorate the arrowhead panel, I used the Nature's Harvest bundle, which is my favourite from the July-December Mini Catalogue. The flowers were stamped in Tuxedo Black and coloured with Stampin' Blends. The wheat die cut is in Cajun Craze. The finishing touches come from the addition of three of the fabulous Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots.
In case you get lost along the hop here's a list of the hop participants with links.
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