Shaped card tutorial ........................

After my circle easel card, I was asked by a few ladies how to do them,

so yesterday I was feeling fine and managed to get this tutorial done for you all,

the only difference this time I am using a octagon, you can use any shape following the same steps,

I used a embossing board to get my shape and cut it out,

Then I traced that twice so it just overlapped and would like below,

then cut it all out making sure not to cut along the join,

I then folded one octagon in half, like you can see below,

The third octagon is then stuck to lower half of the folded octagon,

This is how it looks before adding the third octagon, just to show you where to stick the third ocatagon,

you can either decorate before sticking or decorate after,

on the bottom you must remember to put a decoration that is slightly raised so it stops the top from falling flat, as you can see below in this photo.

The flower I made from beads myself, this is the finished card that a friend specifically ordered,

with the backing paper and sunflowers (decoupaged) and butterflies on it.

The butterflies are glittered peel offs, and I have added gold glitter to the centre of the sunflowers, and the gold beads of my handmade flower are nice and sparkly as well,

I am entering this into the following challenges -

Crafty Ann's Challenges - Shaped Easel Card

Totally Paper Crafts - One for the girlies

The Craft Barn - Shaped Cards

Creative Cottage - Summer

Stampavie & More - Sparkly

Thanks for stopping by,

I am hopefully off out to a craft shop now,

Back soon,

Have a great day,

Hugs

Angie

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