BEACHCOMBER

This card  evokes  a ramble along the seashore, with its shells, its texture and its colour.

What is needed:

Small Beauties Deep Blue Sea (CP51) combination pack

A4 pale orange mulberry paper

A4 deep russet orange card

Glue stick

Silicone glue

2 small shells

Scissors and craft knife

Small silver message

A. Creating the front panel

1) Cut out 2 large rows of the teabag/backing paper 10.4 by 20.8 cm ( the ones in the middle of the sheet). Using your craft knife, cut a rectangular window  out of the middle of these rows approx.   3 cm by 13.5 cm.(See photo)

2) Score and fold your sheet of russet card in half to make a card, and then glue teabag paper with its window  to the front panel, approx .6 cm from the left edge  and equal distance at the top and bottom.

3) Using your craft knife, cut out a retangular  window in the centre of the  card corresponding to window you just created from teabag paper, but leaving  a small border of russet orange.

4) Cut out 2 strips of your mulberry paper  each of them 2.3 cm by 20.8 cm, and glue over the teabag paper, on either side of the window.

B. Creating the inside panel

1) Cut out 2 strips of teabag paper, one of them the smaller paler blue squares at the top of the page, and the other the same squares you cut out before.

2) Trim each of them on one edge so they are both approx 5.1 cm by 20.8 cm  (See photo)  Line the deep blue one with the window so that image you see through the window is the same as the one that you initially cut out when you cut your first teabag paper window and glue down equal distance from the top and the bottom.  Glue the smaller paler blue squares to the right of this.

3) From the trimmings of the  smaller pale blue teabags cut a strip 1 cm  by 20.8 cm and glue to the left edge.  (The pattern of this needs to be a mirroir image of the right edge)

4) Cut out 2 strips of mulberry paper one of them 4.4 cm by 20.8 cm and one of them 2.4 cm by 20.8 cm and glue the larger one next to the central pattern that will be seen through the window, and the smaller one to the left side.

5) Cut out the centre of one of the teabag papers (the large  ones at the bottom of the page) and glue with silicone glue to the centre  orange square of the blue strip which you will see through the window.

6) Attach with silicone glue your 2 small shells  to the orange squares above and below this central square.

C.      Finishing off the card

1)      Cut out your letters from Deep Blue Sea card stock and glue  them  along the left side of the inside panel, each letter next to one  orange half square  patterns.  Finally add small silver message to the right hand corner.

2) Trim the  right edge of the front panel so the whole panel is 11.2 cm wide, and trim the inside panel so that it is 12.2 cm wide from the fold.