Decorate this double Z fold card with birds and feathers
This week I wanted to show you how to make a different shaped card. This double Z folded card looks complicated but it really isn't. I also wanted to challenge myself to make a card using items from the front of a magazine. I bought the July 2020 edition of Crafts Beautiful which has stamps on the front of butterflies, birds and feathers. I didn't look in the magazine for inspiration as I wanted it to be my ideas so just took the stamps and got creating.
This is the end result (I'm going to read the magazine next to see what they did with their cards !)
Follow the below link to find out how the card was made
You will need
This is the end result (I'm going to read the magazine next to see what they did with their cards !)
Follow the below link to find out how the card was made
You will need
- A4 navy card
- 2 sheets of patterned card or paper. (I used a sky patterned paper and a blue stripey paper from Lovely Mystery 12x12 scrapbook pad by Craft Sensations)
- Small piece of green/blue card
- Stamp set on front of Crafts Beautiful magazine - July 2020
- Navy and purple ink pads (I used stampin up's night of navy and perfect plum ink pads)
- Double sided foam pads, double sided sticky tape and glue
- Guillotine
- Stamping aid such as stamparatus or misti and a plastic stamping block
- Fold the A4 navy card in half to create the base card. Fold the front half of the card backwards in half - this creates the Z fold card
- Cut 6cm from the top or bottom of your card
- Turn the piece you've just cut off over as per below photo.
- Cut the following pieces from sky blue paper - two of 14 cm (height) x 6 . 5 cm (width) and one 14 cm x 14 cm. Cut the following from the blue stripe paper - one of 5 cm (height) x 14 cm (width) and two of 5 cm (height) x 6 . 5 cm (width). (ensure if you have patterned paper that you cut it so the pattern runs the same way on each piece - particularly noticeable with the stripe paper I used)
- Glue the patterned papers to the card bases as per below photo
- Using double sided tape (or glue) attach the smaller Z piece onto the front of the base card as per the below photos. (make sure you only attach it to the small left piece and the very right of the righthand part of the card). This creates your double Z base card. When you open it up, it creates a 3d depth card but it also folds flat for postage
- Stamp 'You're the Best' greeting on the lefthand panel using navy ink. I used my Stamparatus to ensure I could get perfect positioning.
- Using purple ink, stamp 8 feathers onto the reverse side of the remaining blue stripey paper - it's a mottled pink and purple patterned paper
- Cut out the feathers. (My tip for cutting is to not use the end of the scissors for cutting but the centre part of the scissors. If you use the ends of the scissors it tends to create an almost tear at the very end of the cut)
- Stamp two little birds onto the same paper as the feathers using purple ink. Cut around them but don't worry too much about being accurate around their feet. Their feet are needed so they can be stuck to the card but you won't see them so it doesn't need to be accurate.
- Glue the birds feet to the card as shown in the below photo so the bird sticks up above the card.
- Using navy ink, stamp the doily shape onto the green/blue card.
- Cut around the doily then cut it in half.
- Using double sided foam pads stick half of the doily just below the birds so it lines up with the edge of the card and looks like their nest
- Put a double sided foam pad on the back of the tip of each feather. Put a small blob of glue at the base of each feather. Attach two feathers to the front of the card and six feathers to the inside of the card as shown in the below photo's. (By putting a foam pad at one end and glue at the other of each feather it makes the feather look like you've only attached the feather at it's base and it is hanging, almost 3d)
