Tea Bag Folding - Day 2 Five Point Star Fold (My own design!)

Hi everyone and welcome to day 2 of tea bag folding! 

Today's card:  Pentagram

I made these pictures bigger so that you could really see the detail.

REAL Close Up!

Five-Point Star Fold

1. For this first project, you will need 5 squares of patterned paper, each 3x3.  For this embellishment, choose one paper only.  Also, do not use a thick cardstock.  The folds are very difficult with thicker cardstock.  It can be done, but more difficult.

2.  Here are the folds in order.

Once you have all five squares folded, take two of the finished pieces and overlap the edges.

1. Take one piece in each hand.
2. Slide the left side triangle piece in your right hand beneath the right side triangle in your left hand. (Sorry if this is confusing -)
3. The pattern that I used is left over right.

1. Use glue dots to attach one to the other.
2. Take the next piece and attach it next.  Work your way through all the pieces until they are all attached. 
3. When you attach your last piece, you will need to attach the piece on the right also to complete the circle.
4. Now that the star is completed, all I did was add it to my card.  (The star I made was a little loose so I pushed the outside edges to the center so that there would be no opening in the center.  Since the back of this medallion is flat, I used a strong liquid glue to glue it to my card.)
5. My paper was two sided.  I took the star point (I am holding one in the picture below) and folded it forward to make a little triangle.

1. I added gold Liquid Pearls and a small ivory tassel.
2. There are tons of variations to the basic teabag fold in my sample. Design Originals had a book called Tea Bag Sampler some years ago. It is a great reference.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you tomorrow for my third card.

Lis

Tea Bag Folding Home Embellishments for Cards!

Hi everyone and welcome to the weekend!  This weekend I would like to share with you some TEA BAG FOLDING cards.

No, we are not going to fold tea bags (I wonder if that's how this got started...)

Tea Bag folding is not a new art form. In fact, it's been around a long time.  The essence of tea bag folding is to take a square of paper and make folds.  The folds create a design.  When several of these folded squares are put together, they make medallions.

Today's Card: You Are Loved  using the Simple Star Fold
                      (See below for step by step photo instructions.)

Close up!
To make the petals for my medallion stand out a little more I took some Vintage Photo distress ink and edged the outside of the medallion AND also a little of the overlap as well. When I inked the edges, I allowed the points of the star to curl.

Simple Star Fold

• The completed piece contains 8 folded squares.  Each square has five folds. (Remember that you can change the size of your finished medalion simply by using a larger or smaller square of paper.)

• For the photo showing the first two pieces being placed together , I used one plain piece and one patterned paper piece so that you could see better how the two pieces would go together.  You will note that the white piece fits into the slit of the other piece.

Here is my finished star.  You will notice that in this medallion, I have a hole in the center, most finished medallions do not.  In order to get a great fit, you need to fold accurately. 

I hope that you liked today's card. I hope that you will try this simple fold and make your own tea bag card!  See you tomorrow for another great fold!

Lis

Buttons and Bows

Hi everyone!

I thought I would try out a different Blog Design called Dynamic.  It allows you to see more and hopefully find what you are looking for more easily.



Please let me know what you think of the change.  COMMENT!!  Is it helpful?  Do you like the original blog style better?

Here is a cute little card that I sent my dad.  I had some leftover papers that I just couldn't throw away so ....I made a card!

Close Up!

Hope you liked it!

Lis

Imagine Butterfly Card

I think that this weekend my mind was on butterflies subconsciously.  It seems that both my cards have butterflies as part of the card!

Today's card is a bit more mainstream.

I started out with a lavender/lilac card base (Bazzill of course).  I layered coordinating patterned papers from K&Company. The center section is a layer (1 inch) of brown patterned paper and then a K&Company border that has glitter on it.  I added the word IMAGINE to the bottom. (I have had these acrylic words for a while and have been trying to find ways of using them.)

I love Stardream papers.  They shimmer and glisten and come in lots of colors.  My butterflies are made out of lilac and pink stardream paper.  I punched out the butterfly design in each colors.  I placed the dark lilac as the base and glued the center of the pink butterfly to the lilac center.  I let this dry and then glued the lilac wings down to my card (I didnt put glue in the center, just the wings. This way I didnt have to worry about glue showing.)  I added a lilac jewel to the center of each butterfly.

 Close Up!

I did try to place the jewel toward the top of the butterfly and not exactly in the middle.

I hope that you liked this card!  If you did, leave a comment!

Thanks for your time and come back soon!

Lis

A Pretty Card with a Nifty Little Bow

Hi everyone!  This is a sweet little card that I made for my dad.  I thought I would share it with you.

Close Up!

Here is a close up of my nifty little bow. 

I started with two pieces of organza (1/2 inch wide each and about 4 inches long.)  Honestly I had these two pieces and didnt want to throw them out.  I tied one piece in a single knot around the middle of the other piece.  I trimmed the edges and voila!

I think this worked out well because I had two different colors of ribbon (lilac and gold).  I'm going to try some other color combinations and see what happens.  I bet that navy will look great!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Be - A Collage Card

Today's card is a fun collage card that I made with the new 7 Gypsies paper tape.  I like their new Numbers set because it features larger width and larger print.  I placed it on the right edge of my mat.  I like how the numbers are different colors and shapes too.

I used some metallic gold paper and punched out a design.  I layered this onto my mat.  I have had these cards laying around my house for a LONG time and decided to use one.  "BE" looks nice.  I finished off with an organza ribbon.  My card base is kraft cardstock which I thought would add to the "old" feel.

You can really get a nice view of everything on my card.  I edged the mat with a brown chalk ink.

Close Up!

The card with the butterfly and BE on it has glitter on it.  Its not the regular glitter, it's more like the glass glitter.  You can see the sparkle in the picture.

I used a 1/2 inch wide ribbon.

Here is a good picture of the punch design I used.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Quick Post before October!!

Hi everyone!  Hope that you are all doing well this fine weekend!

Next weekend marks the first days of October!  And you kknow what that means....HALLOWEEN!!

Yep!  Halloween cards will be flowing from my desk (well, maybe not flowing...but I will definitely have some!)

So, stay tuned!

Today's card a simple one made using this Sunday's Template from http://www.franticstamper.com/

Take care!

Lis