Blue card for Funky Fairies blue challenge

Good evening all, above you can see a quick-ish card I did last night for the blue challenge at Funky Fairies challenge blog.

(http://funkyfairyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/funky-fairys-challenge-6-color-theme.html for who is interested in this challenge)


Quick-ish card as I already had the decoupage picture (from the Lilac Garden at http://thelilacgardendecoupagesite.co.uk/) cut out and assembled at an earlier stage. I therefore only needed to draw, cut and fold the spring card template.



For those interested in the template, below is a template I do myself with the measurements. Basically it is a rectangle measuring 7.5 cm high by 15 cm wide. On top of this a 15 by 15 cm square. And on top of that a triangle 10.5 cm sides on a 15 cm base as shown below.





Cut out it looks like the picture below.

Next it needs some folding to get the template in its right shape. Fold along the line of the rectangle, this will be the base of the card. Next fold the square along a line from opposite corners. Also fold along a line horizontally down the middle of the square. The top part of the card will now be a 10.5 cm sided square. See also the picture below.

Then cut a recatngular piece of paper to decorate the base measuring 14.5 by 7 cm (thus leaving an edge of the base card all around) I have used Doodlementals paper 2 for this from Funky Fairies, resized to fit this card.

Stick this to the base with double sided sticky tape. It then looks like below.

Next cut out a 10 by 10 cm of other paper to decorate the square at the top of the card. For this I have used Funky Fairies Doodlementals paper 12, resized to fit this square. Again attach to the square with double sided sticky tape. It then looks like this:

Next add another square of card measuring 10 by 10 cm and put this on the other square like shown underneath. For this one I have used Funky Fairies blue Christmas paper j, the one with the flowery back ground.

The next step is to add the decoupaged image, this one is the 'Rock Chick' from the Lilac Garden.

It will then look like this:

Following this it is time to put the card together. Put double sided sticky tape to the bottom triangle formed by the pre-folded square and attach this to the base of the card. The spring card will now be able to stand up as shown below.

A bit of a close up of the card:

For extra decoration add some peel off corner decoration and a sentiment 'Happy Birthday' on this card.

Another close up:

As the previous photos were taking with artificial light, I have added 2 more photos with day light as taken this afternoon.

I hope you like the card, I must admit it looks a lot better than I thought it would. I also hope the instructions have been helpful to those who would like to try a spring card themselves, it is really quite easy to do.