Welcome to this blog hop and my faux book fold card.

This hop is designed to introduce you to our latest Festive Friday Challenge and all the projects from the Design Team. Our Inspo List this week has been inspired by International Literacy Day which falls on September 8th. As a book worm from very early on, this is a day I can really support. Books were an important part of my childhood and adulthood and my children and Grandchildren have all grown up with stories and non fiction books around them.

The Inspo List is 10 items you can choose from to create your project in our card making and paper crafting challenge.  Incorporate THREE of the items in your project and link up! And guess what? Your project doesn’t have to be about the theme at all!  The selected festivity is just a unique way to come up with a fun and interesting inspiration list! 

My project used: book, layers, fun fold,ribbon, ink spots

My Project

	A4 Metric	Imperial Letter Size
Soft Suede Card Base	25cm x 18cm scored at 12.5cm on the long side	7″ x 10″ scored at 5″ on the long side
Very Vanilla Inside mat	12cm x 17.5cm	6 3/4″ x 4 3/4″
Very Vanilla Front Mat	9.5cm x 15.5cm	6″ x 3 1/2″
Very Vanilla Spine	15.5cm x 1.5cm	6″ x 1/2″
Soft Suede inside spine	1.3cm x 15cm	3/8″ x 5 3/4″

Product List
Stamp : Quiet Meadow Cling Stamp Set [155082] £20.00 , Daisy Lane Cling Stamp Set [149325] £21.00

Ink : Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] £7.00

Card Stock : Soft Suede A4 Card Stock [119982] £8.25 , Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £9.00

Tools & Adhesive : Blending Brushes [153611] £11.25 , Watercolor Pencils [141709] £15.00 , Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00

Ribbon & Trim : Gold 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Shimmer Ribbon [152156] £6.50

Accessory : Paper Lattice [155697] £5.50 , Metallic Pearls [146282] £6.50

Instructions

• Fold the card on the score line to create the card base.
• Score the card 1.5cm /1/2″ in from the folded edge.
• To create the shaped top and bottom, measure down 1.5cm /1/2″ from the top edge on this score line Make a pencil mark
• On this front flap of the card, cut from the top left corner, diagonally to the pencil mark and then cut the top of this front panel off.
• Keeping the orientation of the piece you have just cut off the same, lay it across the bottom of the card and use it as a guide to trim the bottom left edge off horizontally.
• Use the card base a s a guide to trimmimg the spine and inside pieces of Cardstock.
• Take the Very Vanilla cardstock for the inside and with the paper trimmer, score lots of thinly spaced lines across the top short edge to create the illusion of pages. Do this for just over 1.5cm/ 1/2″
• With a Blending Brush and Soft Suede ink, blend ink on the edges of all the Very vanilla cardstock pieces.
• Stamp the flowers on the front panel in Soft Suede ink and add colour with watercolour pencils. Add some ink spots around the flowers.
• Add the greeting in Soft Suede ink.
• Cut some corners from the paper lattice and stick them in place. Finish with some gold pearls.
• Stamp the sentiment and script stamp on the inside panel of Very vanilla and stick in place.
• Attach a folded piece of Gold Shimmer ribbon the the inside spine of the book and cover with the shaped Soft Suede strip of card.

Let’s Hop

I hope you have enjoyed my project. Do leave a comment if you can, because it certainly makes my day. Then it is time to hop around all the other projects

FF #0091 International Literacy Day

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the  Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings – You are here

Stephanie Lanzalotto

Melva Peters

How Can I Help?

I would love to hear about your favourite books, whether now or as a child. Do comment and let me know.

Meanwhile don’t hesitate to get in touch if I can help

And stay safe and stay well

Helen xx