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Blooming Friendship Folio

This collection has delicate blues and rich deep red florals with accents of green and brown. I thought I would try to make something with the 'postcards', I think this is called a folio.

I started with the 'postcards', added a page from the '12" collection pad' and some of the 'stickers'.  I selected a complementing sheet of cardstock and let it evolve.

I cut the cardstock along the 6" mark, scored and folded along these lines. I trimmed down the 'designer sheet' to fit my card base.  All the edges were ripped, inked and sewn to the cardbase. I backed the 'sticker' elements with card then inked their edges as well.  From the cardstock I die-cut the 'leaves', '2 ladies chatting' and the 'tags'.

This is the layout of the centre spread with the elements that were added to them.  On the left page, I glued the backed sticker only on the left and bottom side so it created a tuck spot for the postcards and tag.

On the right page, I folded a belly band made with baking paper under the designer paper before sewing them to the card base, then glued a few elements at the bottom.  I then created a small envelope that held the small tag, the wine glass and chocolate stickers that I backed with cardstock. I added a bit of interest to the edge of the postcard with some muslin and die-cut leaves.

These photos show the centre spread loaded up.  I ended up adding a small acetate flip window to the right page, adding some muslin, a button and string tie. With the cut-out piece of cardstock I used it as a base for a circle tag and topped it with a circle of designer paper.

On the back page, I used the frame from the cut-out-tag, backed it with acetate, inked the edges, glued it on 3 sides and placed it into position forming a pocket.  This pocket holds 2 postcards.

Couture Creations Products used:-

CO728099             Blooming Friendship - Paper Collection, Page 4A&B,5A,

                                 - Post Cards & Stickers

CO728117     Blooming Friendship - Die - Coffee Break

CO728118     Blooming Friendship - Die - Friendly Branches

CO727712            Steampunk Dreams - Die - Distressed Tags

CO727713     Steampunk Dreams - Die - Straight Edge Tags

CDEIPLU028   Dye Ink - Brown

CO727948     Blending Brush - Medium

ULT200021    Cardstock - Caloden

Other Products:-

    Corner Punch, Circle punch, Edge Punch, Acetate, Ribbon, string, muslin, Button, bead charm, paper clip, baking paper strip and glue.

To find a store near you that stock these Couture Creations products, click on the following link:- 

https://couturecreations.com.au/pages/store locator

Here is a quick Video of a walk-through of the folio:- 

My Blog link is:-

cardcraftkaylee.blogspot.com

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