Thursday 3 May 2018

New Triangle Home

Hello lovely peeps and a warm welcome to my new follower :o)


For today's card I've used the Simply Print version of 'A New Adventure' from Lili of the Valley

I haven't made one of these triangular cards for a few years but my friend's daughter moved into a triangular flat last week so it seemed the perfect opportunity to make one again.

I wanted the card to fit in a 5"x7" envelope and made a mock up in paper with 12.5cm squares, which seemed to fit ok. Unfortunately the finished card was a lot thicker and didn't fit so I ended up putting it in a C5 envelope. Next time I'll start with 12cm squares :o)

So, I cut three 12.5cm x 12.5cm squares from 300gsm white card and scored them in half diagonally.


 To decorate I cut 12cm squares from 3 different papers and cut them on the diagonal before glueing onto the card panels.


Then I glued the 3 panels together like this


and glued on hook & loop fasteners (Joycrafts) to keep it together when standing up.


For the topper I printed off the '4 to a page' size of Simply Print and cut one of them down. To get the arched top I ran it through my die-cutting machine with a large circle die -leaving the bottom half hanging out over the edge of the 'sandwich' so it didn't cut that part.

I added a sentiment from LOTV's Block Sentiments set and some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
House of Cards shaped card
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 
 Crafty Creations #365 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x

9 comments:

Lia said...

A lovely card with a great shape. I like it very much.
Lia xx

Marianne's Craftroom said...

I love this image, fab shape

meg said...

Wow, love the shape thanks for the instructions, beautiful card

Liz said...

Super card, Katrina. I love the unusual shape. xx

Diane Louise J said...

Gorgeous card and thanks for showing us how it's made, you've inspired me to have a go and make one myself.

Thanks Diane Louise x

Fikreta said...

Very beautiful card!

Kate 'Rijacki' Ledum said...

Fabulous card and such a fun fold.

Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Regards,
Rijacki

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Michele K. Henderson said...

This is a great idea for a shaped card! I love the pretty, soft coloring! Thanks so much for playing along with us at House of cards this month!
Take care!
Michele, HOC team

Karen Petitt said...

Beautiful card, love your unusual fold too - thank you for sharing how you created that with us as I'm always on the look out for different folds. Thank you so much for entering your pretty card into the May House of Cards Challenge. I hope we get to see you this month too - there is a blog hop! Karen House of Cards DT