Teddy Bo Top Tips Thursday

It's Thursday....so it's time for Teddy Bo's Top Tips

 

 

And our teacher today is

 

 

Colette is going to make the card base for this gorgeous cared featuring the new Snowies range from the FairyD section of the store at www.teddybo.com

 

 

When I made my first one of these a couple of years ago it was all done by measuring, drawing in pencil lines, before cutting, folding and then rubbing out the pencil lines, very messy and not easy, so I made myself a template in Photoshop, and it's much easier.

First print the template onto the back of an A4 piece of card, depending on which software you use you may have to size it to A4.

(You could just print the template out onto paper and use it to mark your card if you can't get card through your printer.

I printed on the borderless setting, so that it more or less completely fits the landscape width of the A4 card, if you print it "scale to fit Media" or whatever the setting is you have on your printer it will probably end up a smidge smaller.

You will also need a cutting mat, craft knife, ruler, tape, scoring board and scorer.

Cut all excess card from the template so that you are left with the card blank

Use a craft knife and ruler and cut the diagonal lines from corner to corner, then score the two squares and the lines down the centre of the card ( these will make the spine)

Fold the spine and then the largest square, so that the flaps are on the inside of the card, crease well

Still on the inside of the card and using the second set of scored lines, fold the flaps towards the centre of the opening.

Turn card over to the right side, measure box and cut two pieces of card to fit, (if you've printed borderless it should be roughly 10cm x 10cm)

On the front of the card apply tape to each of the triangles ( I've highlighted where I have placed the tape), and then fix the square of card into the opening.

Repeat on the inside of the card, fixing the square to the back of the box shape.

The front should now look like this.

This step is optional - cut a l6cm strip of card roughly the depth of the box, cut into 4 x 4cm pieces, score each piece at 2cm then use a little glue to attach them over the corners of the box on the inside of the card.

In this pic the left corner is covered.

Ta Dah!!!

One shadow box card all ready to decorate.

 

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Thank you so much Colette for putting this wonderful tutorial together....we hope you've enjoyed it..xxx