For You

Hello all!  Today's card was a bit of an experiment in Tea Bag Folding.  I had never done this before and came across a video on You tube about it and wanted to give it a try.  To start the card, I embossed a piece of milk card with the Braided Vines embossing folder.  I added some of our new pearl corner embellishments to add a bit of bling (I actually cut the design down a bit on these so it was smaller)  Next I cut four of the smaller die in the Times Square die in black card.  I glued all of these to a piece of milk card to form the backdrop for my focal element.  I cut out four of the smaller square in the Union square set out of milk card.  These are the ones that I used to fold for the "Tea bag folding technique".  Just to say, however, that this technique is usually done with paper not card so mine had a bit of a thickness to it, but I rather liked it.  I am not going to try to describe the folds but just say that if you are interested there are loads of videos showing how to do it.  Finally I stamped my sentiment then cut out the centre from the Union die set to create a black frame for it.  I mounted it with foam in the centre of the card.  I completed the card by piercing my milk mat, adding a thin black mat for balance and a final milk card mat.  The finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x  71/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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