Hello crafty friends ...
Today for Masculine Card Monday on my blog, I'm sharing a new-to-me Slimline card format - a Diagonal Trifold card! This card was for my brother, who celebrates a December birthday and I used a couple of dies I purchased online last month. Both the cowboy silhouette and the large cactus are new and made by Paper Rose.
I have a walk through of my video on YouTube HERE as well.
It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be to cut the patterned paper to have even borders and I'm not sure why. It made perfect sense in my head, ha ha. Maybe I was too tired as I had been working on this late one evening when I should have been getting ready for bed. But I was inspired and wanted to keep playing!
Because I like to work ahead, I have a couple more masculine cards & tags finished and planned on sharing them in the New Year for my Masculine Card Monday posts. However I was invited to join another Design Team and will be posting for them on Monday's in the New Year. I'm VERY excited about this new adventure ... and I will share more information as soon as I am allowed to. Any Masculine cards I make now, will be scattered throughout the week!
- Measurements for my Slimline Diagonal Trifold:
- Cut your card base to measure 8.5 x 10.5"
- With 10.5" side at the top, mark 3" up from bottom left corner.
- Use a trimmer (or craft knife and ruler if you are really brave and have steady hands) to make a diagonal cut from that 3" mark at the lower left to the top right corner. Set aside the top piece for another project.
- Score the diagonal piece, which is still 10.5" wide, at 3.5" and 7". This gives you your trifold and the folded card size is 3.5 x 8.5".
- NOTE: It might be easier to score your card stock at 3.5" and 7" before you make your diagonal cut.
Various card stocks - stash
Patterned paper - Desert Dream, Recollections
Bucking Horse die - Paper Rose
Cactus die - Paper Rose
1030 Happy Birthday - Karen Burniston
1128 Go Wild - Karen Burniston
Fence (Barbed Wire ) - MFT Stamps
Small Cactus dies - Can't Touch This, Taylored Expressions
Celebrate - Large Birthday, Technique Tuesday
Circles - stash
Taylored Expressions Blending Brushes
Card size - 8.5 x 3.5" (when folded) and fits in a #9 or #10 Business Envelope
Thanks for stopping by today
This is awesome, that paper is perfect for the tri fold
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