Penny Black First Blooms Tulip Card

Hi Everyone,

Today’s project is a tri-fold card bursting of tulips from the Penny Black First Blooms die set. I love making a tri-fold card and I thought the tulips would be a good candidate for this style of card. To help explain the ins-and-outs of the card, there is a video below. Take a look. I hope you enjoy it!

I have created a video to illustrate the steps in making this card but don’t think it is hard to make, because it can be as simple as you would like it to be. It is a lot of fun to make and can be adapted to almost any motif, style or subject you like! Check out the video below.

If you don’t have a chance to view the video right now, here are some quick steps and things to keep in mind while making it.

A trifold card is not hard to make. The most difficult thing is to determine the size of the panels. I like to start with a piece of paper that is 5 3/4″ in height x 11 1/2″ in width. This means that it will fold to a 3 7/8″ x 5 3/4″ card when finished. In this card, I used Canson 90lb. watercolor paper for the base. I wanted a paper that plays nice with watercolor media and also ink for writing. Another huge benefit of the 90lb. is that it is light enough to fold and crease nicely, without cracking, and it also holds its shape well.

After the card base is created and scored and folded at 3 7/8″ and again at 7 3/4″, then it is time to cut the windows. I cut out the windows using the two smallest Whimsy Hand Stitched Frames. These were centered on the card panel, with the large one on the front and the smaller one in the middle.

For an extra accent to the windows, I added a thin line around them and then colored them with a yellow Copic marker (Y15).

After the card base is done, I cut out a bunch of tulips using the Penny Black First Blooms die set from watercolor paper and watercolored them to my liking.  When dry, they were arranged and applied to the card panels as you see illustrated in the photos.  For the center one, a pot was cut from the Honey Bee Stick With Me die set and watercolored.

The sentiment “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow” is from Audrey Hepburn. This sentiment seemed to go with the tulips nicely and it could be broken into three phrases easily. I hand-penned these but you can just as easily stamp a sentiment!

I hope you enjoyed the project and it added some cheery Spring vibes! ♥

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