A Gardening Treat

Concentric At It's Best.

Good afternoon all :)

It's Thursday and that means that today's blog will be all about this week's workshops. Although this card is far from your usual design, we hope that it will offer you inspiration and if nothing else, encourage you to experiment with your fold boards!

Before we get to the main part of the blog, we'd like to say that the photos regarding the mixed media tags that Beth and Ann-Marie made on Tuesday will hopefully be uploaded tomorrow.

So, about this week's classes then... The ladies have made a card that our young apprentice has called "A Gardening Treat". This concentric card is elegant, imaginative and bright, the perfect card for when you're feeling up to a challenge or wanting to do something a little bit unusual. The best thing is, as with most of our cards, it's perfect for any occasion :)

And here is the Finished Card:

Usually this type of card is stood up however, it's be redesigned and it's turned out well.It just goes to show that changing the smallest detail can sometimes give you a completely different result and that experimenting definitely pays off in the end :)

We were hoping to have started uploading video tutorials by today but unfortunately we've been delayed, however we assure you we are working on it when we have time available.

This type of fold makes a Concentric Card, to make this type of card you will need an MNF fold board.

-  Place your A4 card landscape on your MNF fold board, make a pencil mark on line 2 at the top and the bottom of the card, turn it all the way round and do the same again. Next, place your card portrait and score on line 2 from your top pencil mark to your bottom pencil mark, then turn your card landscape again do the same again scoring from the top of your card to your already scored line. Turn your card all the way round and repeat. Place your card landscape again and score all the way down line 4, and again turn your card all the way round and repeat. Leaving the card in place, score on line 5 in the middle between your  horizontal score lines.

Place your card portrait and cut from the top score line to the bottom score line on either side in order for your card to fold.

And here are the photos of the ladies making this card... 

It's a long process but we're sure you'll agree that the result is worth it :)