Greetings it’s Sue here from the Dies R Us design team with a quad-fold, garden pop-up card.
This card was inspired by some of the Tutti Designs garden dies. The card specifically uses Garden Trellis, Garden Fountain and Garden Bench Set.
I created a quad fold card base by taking two 10 x 7 inch heavy card bases and cut one into a 5 ½ x 7 inch piece and a 4 1/5 x 7 inch piece. The larger piece is scored and folded at ½ inch along long side to form a tab to glue behind the other card base that in scored and folded in the middle. This creates a tri-fold card. Cut rectangular apertures from each side large enough to fit the fountain and trellis dies. Apertures should match up when folded closed.
Now is a good time to use Distress Oxide inks and a blending brush to color the inside of the trifold card a sky blue.
Spritz lightly the 4 ½ x 7 inch piece of card base with water to make it more pliable and use a cobblestone embossing folder to create the textured “floor” of this card. Score and fold ½ inch along short side of piece. Paint or decorated the textured area before gluing tab to center back of tri-fold card.
Cut two fountains from white card stock and ink both sides of each piece using Distress Oxide inks and a blending brush. (Adding the beads is optional.) Using a needle and thread, string seed beads and then adhere with glue to fountain. Glue beaded fountain to front of card aperture, glue second fountain to inside of front aperture matching up with front fountain and hiding the threads of the beading. (My aperture was bigger than the fountain and trellis, so I used thin stirps of clear plastic that I cut form packaging to act as extensions for the bases and tops of the fountain and trellis so that I could glue them to the card base.)
Cut two trellises from white card stock and two from green paper. Cut out the ivy from the green pieces and glue to the white trellis pieces. (An alterative is to color the ivy with green markers on the white trellis.) Adhere one trellis to the second aperture on the card base and then glue the second trellis to the back of aperture matching up lattice work.
Cut a tree and leaves from the Karen Burniston Tree Pop-Up die set. Cut a number of strips of grass from green paper and glue in layers to the inside of card. Position the tree behind the bench on the center panel. (I had to cut a second trunk to make the tree taller.) Glue down the tree then layers of grass. Decorate with birds cut from Karen Burniston’s Tiny Trees Pop-Up die set.
Cut two of the benches out of heavy brown card stock. Save the four strips that are waste from the die cutting of bench. Cut the top of bench back off one piece as shown. Snip the arm rest from the back of the same piece and trim off extra angled piece. Fold the cut back down to form seat of bench.
Fold down the cut arms. Take the wider of the saved four strips and fold in a rectangle that is 1/ 2 x 3/8 inches and glue ends together. Glue the bench seat to the whole bench piece which becomes the bench’s back. Glue the rectangles between the front curved bench legs and the back curved bench legs. Take one of the thin strips and cut in half. Fold each half into an “L” shape. Glue the “L”s under the fold arm rests and adhere “L” strip to the bench back.
Train the bench to fold up, before gluing on to card base. To glue the bench into the card. Add glue first to rectangle bottom strips and position the onto the card “floor” near the fold. Glue bench back on to center panel of card. Move the bench while glue is still wet for best positioning.
To add some activity to the card, I stamped and colored a Funky Fossil dog stamp I had with Distress Oxide – Rusty Hinge with a water brush. The ball was colored with markers and attached to the dog with a strip of clear plastic cut from some packaging. The dog was then attached to the cobblestone flap by cutting a strip of cardstock and folding into an “L” shape and gluing to back of dog and onto cobblestones.
I covered the fronts of the aperture panels and the back center panel with green patterned paper before adding sentiments.
Sentiments are foiled Spellbinders sentiments I had in my stash and a Riley & Co. sentiment that is stamped on white card stock scrap in green ink, fussy cut and adhered to the back of cobblestone panel.
Hope this fun card has provided some inspiration for your crafting. 😊
SUPPLIES Used from Dies R Us:
- Tutti Designs – Dies – Garden Trellis
- Tutti Designs – Dies – Garden Fountain
- Tutti Designs – Dies – Garden Bench Set
- Karen Burniston – Dies – Tree Pop-Up
- Karen Burniston – Dies – Tiny Trees Pop-Up
- Grass border die
- Rectangle die 5 x 3 ¼ inches from a nesting dies set
- Cobblestone embossing folder
- Cosmic Shimmer – Specialist Acrylic Glue – 125ml
- Scor-Pal – Scor-Tape 1/8″
- Distress Inks Pads
- Pink & Main – Ergonomic Blender Brush
- Tim Holtz Water Brush
- Sizzix – Big Shot PLUS die cutting Machine
Other Supplies:
- White and brown cardstock
- Green paper
- Patterned papers from Park Lane Paperie – Strawberry Patch
- Clear plastic strips cut from packaging
- Darice cobblestone embossing folder
- Crayola Signature Brush & Detail Dual-ended Markers
- Ranger – Distress Oxide – Mowed Lawn, Stormy Sky, Tumbled Glass, Rusty Hinge
- Scissors
- Needle and thread
- Clear glass seed beads
- Funky Fossil Designs – Clear stamps – More Furry Friends
- Foiled sentiment strips from Spellbinders Glimmer System foils and plates
- Riley & Company -inspirations – Find joy in the ordinary – INS-111
- Stampin’Up Classic ink pad – Pear Pizzazz
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