Heart Of Christmas - Week 15 - Double Diamond Pop Up Card

 

Hello and Welcome to the Heart of Christmas for this week. We are now only a couple more weeks to go after today for this year! It has really gone incredibly fast. Of Course as promised I am keeping up with fancy folds and this week I have found another one of Sam Calcott's designs to try and make for us. This one I did try and leave the measurements the same but I thought the edge parts were a little too wide so I decided that I would adjust the measurements plus then I wouldn't have to start with a 12x12 piece of card stock.

It is called a Double Diamond Pop Up card. Ok It doesn't look like a diamond. I know I put circles on the diamonds. Soooo let me show you the base before I decorated the card.

See Diamonds! You thought I had gone crazy! Well a little bit but we are all friends here. So I decided to try this with an 11 inch by 6 inch piece of Shaded Spruce card base so that I could use any colour base that I had as I don't have all the colours in 12x12 card stock at the moment. It really just means I had to work out how far to move all the scoring lines along.

I have made a little template for you. Cut your card 11x 6 inches then score at 2.5 and 4 inches from the end then I turned it around and did the same from the other end I have indicated the lines for you. Then from both of those end score lines score across the middle at the 3 inch line. Only score at this stage. Then we score the diagonals. score from the outer bottom to the other top. Make a mark at the centre of the card so you can score from the 3 inch line in the centre up to the mark to get the diamond shape. Once you have done all the scoring then you can cut across the middle on the 3 inch line between the 2 outer score lines. Then you fold in the small triangles to leave the diamonds in the middle.

I have layered each section in gold foil and then in the gorgeous Joy of Christmas DSP Before Gold heat Embossing the sentiments from the Christmas Classics Stamp set and  cut them out with the Deckled Circle Dies. I didn't want too much decoration as the card and paper are pretty spectacular so I used the pine leaves from the Joy of Noel Dies to just add to the sentiments. I couldn't help myself I had to add bling with the Tinsel Gems.

I made space on the back to write your greeting

This design of card with these measurements will fit into our card but maybe with a little bit different decorations than the pine leaves. Just flip one side bag on itself. It is a little bulky but it definitely fits! I would suggest you make your own envelope with the gorgeous Stampin' Up! Papers or even a special box for the card.

If you have any questions about my project to day please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next wonderful and talented team member participating this week and toady you will be heading to the amazing Rachel Woollard. Just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If for any reason a blog button sends you somewhere you didn't want to go, please come back here and continue your journey from the list of participants below:
Rachel Woollard
Christine Blain

Kate Morgan

Michele Taylor

Caroline Manwaring

Kathryn Manglesdorf

Rosa Leyden

Judy May

Sharon Davern <= You are here.

Thank you for spending some Christmas crafty time with me today, take care,