Fun Fold Purple Cards

Hello hello

Today I am sharing a couple of fun fold cards I created for the 

Mystical Scrapbooks Retro TV Programs Competition.

The program for week one is Bewitched.

The challenge is to use Halloween colours, a witch/broom/cat, add splatters 

and use some of the chipboard stars from the optional kit.

I have not included those elements on my cards but I am using purple as my Halloween colour.

Purple is not a colour I use very often so this is a challenge for me.

The papers come from a paper pad my grand daughter chose when we were shopping for some craft supplies so not even papers I have chosen myself.

I can not tell you the name or brand of the papers 

as I have torn the papers I thought I might use out 

and disposed of the rest of the pad, including the cover

So here are my cards

Let's have a closer look at Card No. 1

The base card is a 5" square gatefold card

I cut a piece of purple cardstock to 10" x 5"

I scored on the 10" edge at 2 1/2" and 7 1/2"

I also cut a piece 3 1/2" x 3". This will be the front panel.

Because the card base is quite dark I have chosen a light coloured patterned paper and cut:-

1 piece 4 3/4" square  (inside back panel)

4 pieces 4 3/4" x 2 1/4" (inside and outside side panels)

1 piece 3 1/4" x 2 3/4" (front loose panel)

1 piece 1 1/2" x 2 3/4" (inside back loose panel)

The light patterned paper is the only layer of paper added to the inside of the card

To break up the two patterned paper layers I used white cardstock.

I cut:-

2 pieces 4 1/2" x 2" (outside front side panels)

1 piece 3" x 2 1/2" (front loose panel)

The dark patterned papers:-

2 pieces 4" x 1 3/4" (outside front panels)

1 piece 2 3/4" x 2 1/4" (front loose panel)

All of the edges were distressed using my distressing tool and purple ink.

Once all of the layers were attached to the card base, I used double sided tape to attache the centre front panel so it was central on the card front, being careful to only apply tape to the section that is attached to the left hand front panel.

To decorate the card I used a flower from my stash 

that I had previously made using Craft Barn's Primrose die.

The sentiment is from Paper Rose's All Occasions Sentiment Sheets. 

I have added this to the card with scrap chipboard behind it for added height.

Now for Card No. 2

I don't know what this style of card is called but the front of it looks like a capital "I"

I cut my purple cardstock base 10 1/2" x 5 1/4"

and scored it at 5 1/4" on the long edge.

I then cut this piece 1 1/4" from the score mark, so my main piece now measures 6 1/2" x 5 1/4" with a score mark at 5 1/4" on the longer edge.

 I cut a 1 1/4" x 5 1/4" piece from the piece I had just cut from my card base, 

this leaves me a piece that is 2 3/4" x 5 1/4". I trimmed that down to 2 3/4" x 5"

The 2 3/4" x 5" piece is used to join the 1 1/4" x 5 1/4" piece to the card base 

by attaching it lengthwise to the top 1 1/4" section and to the loose 1 1/4" piece

 so that it lines up perfectly with the bottom back of the cardbase.

You can see this process in the video below if this description confuses you.

I used the same two patterned papers that I used on the first card but this time I separated the layers with some silver glitter card.

Light patterned paper sizes are:-

2 pieces 5" x 1" (top and bottom front panels)

1 piece 5" x 5" (inside back)

1 piece 2 1/2" x 5" (inside front centre panel)

1 piece 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" (outside front centre section)

4 pieces 1" square (inside top sections)

Silver Glitter paper sizes are:-

1 piece 4 3/4" square (inside back)

1 piece 2 1/4" square (outside front centre section)

2 pieces 4 3/4" x 3/4" (top and bottom front panels)

Dark patterned paper sizes are:-

1 piece 4 1/2" square (inside back)

1 piece 2" square (outside front centre section)

2 pieces 4 1/2" x 1/2" (top and bottom front panels)

Once again the edges the patterned papers (not the glitter card) were distressed 

before being attached to the card base

The sentiment for this card comes from another Paper Rose sentiment pack called 

Big Sentiments 1.0.

I used my Spellbinders nested Standard Circles Large and Standard Circles Small dies

to cut the sentiment and a piece of silver glitter card.

I inked the edges of these and layered them on top of each other before attaching them to

the centre front panel of the card with some cardboard behind it.

So there we have my two cards for today and here is my process video

I hope you enjoy watching my video and it clears up any confusion

 you may have got from my description.

As always, thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie