LOTV New Baby Diamond Top Card

Afternoon everyone, I hope you are  all well and  not too cold.  Here is a  card I made for some  friends who have recently had  a  gorgeous baby girl, I  made  this  card using themes of the challenge's  i wanted to enter it in to (although this  one  seemed to take  on a bit of a  life of it's own and  now only  vaguely resembles the  themes lol).

Anyhow ..... the  challenges  I made this  card for are;
Lili Of  The  Valley Challenge  Blog - Challenge 124 - Pink, White  and  Silver
Passion for  Promarkers Challenge Blog - Week 129 - Celebrations
I Love Promarkers Challenge Blog - Challenge 95 - A Shaped Card
Willow  Sketchie Challenge Blog- Sketch
Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge Blog - Challenge  19  - New Beginnings

To make  this card,  I began with a  sheet  of  white  A3  card,  With the card in a landscape  position I measured  half  way up the  card (my card is  298mm tall so i measured 149mm up) I then scored my  line horizontally and folded it leaving me with a very long  thin base card. Next I measured along the folded  edge of  the card (on both sides,  front  and  back) and marked  the  folded  edge at 22cm  and 27cm. Then I measured along the open  edge  (both sides  front  and  back) and  marked  the open edges  at 16cm and  27cm. When this was done I scored from the points  at 22cm on  the  folded edge to the  point  at 16cm on the  open edge, do this  for  both the front and the back of the card. Next I scored  from the point 27cm  on the folded  edge  to the point at  27cm  on the  open edge, once  again do this for  the  front  and  the  back of the card. I then  folded  along  the score  lines, bending  both ways back and forth to loosen the folds below is a  picture  of  an old card that I have marked and decorated  I am using this  picture because its  far easier  to see like  this,  I did take a picture  of  the  plain white  card but you couldn't really  see much so I have used this one instead. Click  on the picture to see  a larger image.

Ok so once  you have your lines scored, you need  to fold the card,  (it  feels really  wrong when folding this  for some  reason, like it won't  go but  it will), to fold this card in to shape first open  it  out so you have the full A3 sheet laid  flat.  Then with one hand on  one  side  of  the card  just beneath the scorelines  at 27cm so that you have your thumb under the line  on one side  and  your fingers under  the line on the  other  side and the  other hand  holding the  end  furthest away from the  scorelines with fingers on either  side  of the card across  the central scoreline.  You then need to push the area between  the scorelines  back on to itself with the  first hand (this  will feel much like holding  one of those pick a  number thingy's everyone  used to make  at  school) whilst folding the center crease with the other  hand, I have attempted to  show  this in the  pictures below.

I borrowed my  other half's hands  for  some of these photo's as  I tried getting him to take  the  photo's and  he got one  good one but he  didn't really  know what he was  taking  pictures of so we switched (sometime's I think it  would be very  nice to be like  Vishnu  and  have several  arms  lol).

Then I cut out loads  of scalloped  squares in my coloured card using my Grand  Calibur and stuck them in to  place.  I used  a Lili Of  The  Valley die cut  for the top part  of the card, then stamped out my sentiment  with  the hands, feet, bottle  and pin and then stamped out the bottle  six  more times and  coloured these in with my  Promarkers using dusky  pink, ivory, blush and  putty, I then  cut out the bottles with scissors and the greeting and images with the same dies  I used earlier.

I stuck my  greeting and images in to place and then  arranged some foam roses and paper leaves and stuck them in to place and finally stuck my individual bottles in to place.

Thank you for reading this post, I hope it all makes sense ( I found this one difficult to explain)  if you have any  questions I would be more than happy to try and answer them and always I love to hear your comments.

Lindsay xx