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Something Saturday - Triangle Fancy Fold Cards

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 Hi There Creators Today I thought I'd show off  how to create one of the sets of cards I taught at Craft Alive. If you would like a kit, I do have a few spare left over, so please ask me, I've reduced them down to $20 per kit and you do get full instructions for 4 cards, plus all the "ingredients" to create them and extra cardstock 😃 The Turtles Kit is this one (this is made in the same way as the Fancy Fold Wings Card that you can find the video to here:  https://youtu.be/UdOBtXuOHno Then the Triangle cards that we're concentrating on today..... I promised in my video to share the measurements with you for these 2 cards, so here goes....... Supplies & links see below Measurements : Card 1: (Long orange card) White Card base 9.9cm x 29.7cm, scored at 9.9cm increments then diagonally as shown Lemon Lime Twist 9cm x 9cm (need 3 of these) cut diagonally Designer Paper 3” x 3” (need 3 of these) cut diagonally Designer paper strips 4” x ½” (need 2 of th...

How to create longer punched shapes

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Hi Creators! I made a video the other day, which I managed to YouTube and Facebook, but didn't quite manage to get to the blog post too, so here we go! I thought I'd share how to make your punched shapes longer (and shorter) than the punch itself, and if you're anything like me, sometimes it's easier to read and have photos than it is to watch the video, but I'll pop a link at the end for the video too! Here goes..... take the punch you want to elongate, and measure the widest part of the punch Cut a strip of card to this size in this case it's 38mm. thread it into the side of the punch and out of the middle of the punch and punch one end of it Next stamp the image you want on it, see how this doesn't fit into the punch? So then thread the punched end out of the middle of the punch, line it up and punch again Voila.... Longer punched shape with the pretty edges :) You can do this with a variety of punches, as shown below to make the...