Nature's Harvest Building Block Card

 I first saw this card, made by Debbie Mageed on Pinterest, and then used the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers to make my own calendar card. I used the lovely Blackberry Bliss DSP matted with Early Espresso card stock and some gold foil accents.

The card base is 5 `/2 by 10 1/2" Thick Basic white card stock, scored at 3 1/2 and 7"on the long side. These score lines are folded as a Mountain fold at the 3 1/2" score line and a Valley fold at the 7" score line.

To make the blocks the numbers are on some cut marks are made on the Valley Fold on the wrong side of the card. They are made up to 1 1/2" at the following intervals 3/8", 1 3/8" , 2 7/8, 3 7/8, 4 1/8, and 5 1/8".  Following that, score lines are made at the edges of the cut lines, at 5 1/2 and 8 1/2" so the 1" score lines can fold out as Mountain folds, and the 1/4" lines as Valley Folds.

All the score lines were burnished so they were crisp, after which the card was decorated.

Below are the dimensions:

Front panel: Early Espresso card stock 3 1/4 by 5 1/8"  DSP 3 1/8 by 5"

Small panels: Early Espresso 1 3/4 by 5 1/8" (2)  DSP 1 5/8 by 5" (2)

Blocks:  Gold Foil 1 3/8 by 7/8" (8)  Early Espresso 1 1.8 by 5/8" (8)   Numbers Sahara Sand card stock die cut with retired number dies.

Sentiment:  from Dragonfly Garden.  Stamped with Early Espresso ink and punched with  11/4" circle punch.

Calendar added at bottom of front panel 

Decorations behind calendar are gold foil die cuts from Nature Harvest dies.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Dragonfly Garden

Ink:  Early Espresso

Papers:  Thick basic white, Early Espresso, Nature Harvest DSP, Sahara Sand, Gold foil

Accessories:  Nature dies, Number dies (retired), 1 1/4" circle die.

Calendar Card Tutorial and a Video

 I realize it is early to think of Christmas presents although I have already started my Christmas cards.  However I wanted to share the idea of the Calendar card and make a video tutorial showing you how I made it.

Front

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The Mossy Meadow card base is 4 1/4 by 11" scored at 5 1/2" to form a top folding card. A 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Beauty of the Earth DSP was add to the card front.

At the bottom of the card, I insert an ease -like reinforcement so the card could stand up independently. The insert is made by scoring a 4 1/4 by 3" piece of the same colour of cardstock at 1/2, 1 1/2. and 2 1/2" on the 3" side. Burnish the folds well by first folding it in the middle, and folding the outer 1/2'" Tabs in the opposite direction.  I used tear and tape adhesive to adhere it to the bottom of the card.

Tip:  Remove cover of tape on one side only and add this to the back of the card and then remove the cover of the other tab and adhere

Below is the video tutorial I made .  You can also watch the video on You Tube here.  Because I'm new at making videos, please leave a comment to let me know if you found the video helpful.

    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

I purchased the small calendars from Frog's Whiskers Ink in Campbellford, Ont. This was matted with a 2 1/8 by 3 1/8" piece of Mossy Meadow card stock. 

                                                                                                                                    

To decorate the calendar card, I first die cut a piece of Basic White card stock using the Scallop contour die.   I laid the calendar at the bottom to determine where to stamp my images.

I used the tree tops from he Beauty of Friendship stamp set to stamp small trees.  The two trees were stamped first in Old Olive ink, and then with Mossy Meadow.  Because the trees did not have trunks, I used an Early Espresso marker to draw some trunks. And underneath the trees I stamped some grounding using Smokey Slate ink.   The sentiment was stamped above the trees and the calendar was added below the trees.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                

                              The two Real Red die cut  birds were made to look like cardinals by using a Basic Black marker and adding black markings around the neck and head.  

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Beauty of Friendship

Inks:  Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Basic Black marker, Early Espresso marker, Smokey Slate

Papers:  Mossy Meadow, Basic White, Real Red , Beauty of the Earth DSP 

Accessories:  Scallop contour dies, Beautiful Tree dies, Genial embellishments   

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