Autumn Girlfriends

This my post on the

Sparkle N Sprinkle blog today!

Hi, Diane with you today to share with you a tutorial of sorts for

my 'Double Z' fold card using the new stamp set

Autumn Girlfriends.

This card is really very easy to do and I will give you simple

directions, but there are great tutorials on youtube for it as well.

You want to start with an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of card stock.

Cut one piece 4 1/4" x 11"

Score this piece (with the 11" piece along the top)

at 2 3/4" and at 5 1/2" (this is the main base of the card)

Cut the next piece 3 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Score this piece (with the 8 1/2" piece along the top)

at 2 1/8" and at 4 1/4".

Fold as I have shown below.

Next you want to cut some pretty paper 'cover' pieces.

For the larger Z part of the card,

cut 1 at 4" x 5 1/4"

and cut 2 pieces at 2 1/2" x 4"

For the smaller part of the Z card,

Cut 1 at 3 1/4" x 4"

and cut 2 pieces at 1 7/8" x 3 1/4"

and 1 piece 3 1/4" x 4"

Using Tear-ific 1/4" Double Sided Tape,

adhere to each z panel as shown

Using the photo below for reference, attach the smaller z panel to the larger z panel

Now we will make leaves for our card using a Mini Mister,

watercolor paper and the colors of Nuance listed below.

Nuance Bright Yellow, Grass Green, Scarlet, and Orange.

Spray your watercolor paper with water, lightly tap on the nuance color,

spray a bit more and repeat until you are happy with the colors

Once dry, cut out the leaves with your desired dies

(I used Impression Obsession small Leaves Dies)

I colored the Autumn Girlfriends image with Copics,

then applying a bit of glue with Nuvo Small glue pen, 

I added Fall Leaves Glitter to the image leaves.

I then attached my 'Nuance" colored leaves.

I stamped the rake and the sentiment with Versamark,

then embossed with Gold Fine Detail embossing powder.

I used Spellbinders Label Four to cut out the sentiment.

I also stamped the basket of leaves and used the same

Fall Leaves glitter as I used above.

I hope you will give one of these double z folds a try as they are really fun

and turn out so beautifully!

Thank you for visiting with me today!