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Craft Tutorial #8-Tri Shutter Card
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Craft Tutorial#7 -Tri Shutter Card
This is one of the great projects from the Christmas in July Event. Although this example has a Christmas them it can be used for all sorts of Occasions
What you need- All items available at Fern Gully Stamps
white Card- 30cm (12″) x 15cm (6″)
2 different matching decorative papers-cut as follows-
Decorative Paper One-
2 at 14.5cm x 4.5cm or Inches- 5¾” x 1¾”
4 at 3.5cm x 4.5cm or Inches 1′x 1¾”
1 at 6.5cm x 9.5cm or Inches 3¼” x 3¾”
Decorative Paper Two-
2 at 6.5cm x 4.5cm or Inches 3¼”x 1¾”
2 at 3.5cm x 9.5cm or Inches 1″ x 3Adhesive
Double sided tape
2 or more Stamps
Stayz on Ink black
Colour pens or paint to decorate- optional
Rhinestones to decorate -optional
Embellishments - optional
Fiskars trimmer with scoring blade-see alternative below
Craft Knife or paper trimmer
Step 1-Score your 30cm x 15cm white card from top to bottom at 5cm from edge, 10cm, 20cm and 25cm. you can use a ruler and a scoring tool if you don’t have a fiskers Scorer 
Step 2
- Turn the card around and using a trimmer or craft knife, cut a slit between the 5cm and 25cm score lines, 4cm in. Do this on both sides
Step 3- Folding the card-
On the 5cm score line only fold the top and bottom as a mountain fold (not the middle, this does not fold)
On the 10cm score line fold the top and bottom as a valley fold and the middle as a mountain fold
On the 20cm score line fold the top and bottom as mountain folds and the middle as a valley
On the 25cm score line you fold the top and bottom as valley folds and do not fold the middle
Step 4-Now place your card down on the table and press firmly into place with the folds happening your card will fold into a normal A5 size card
Step 5- Decorate your decorative papers- 
Stamp your image using a dark coloured Stayz on ink onto white card
Step 6- Cut out the stamped image
Step 7- Using adhesive stick the cut out stamped image to one of the 14.5cm x 4.5cm decorative papers (side panel)
Step 8- Decorate the stamped image by colouring or adding rhinestones or glitter
Step 9- Stamp a message onto white card using a dark colour Stayz on ink, cut out using a trimmer & attach to the other14.5cm x 4.5cm decorative paper (side panel)
Step 10- You can add stamped images, embellishments to any of the decorative paper panels, as you can see the we have stamped directly onto 2 of the red decorative 6.5 x 4.5cm paper panels.
Step 11-Place double sided tape to the back of each of the decorative papers and attach them in place
As you can see in the examples pictured you can achieve many different looks for all sorts of occations
