Thursday, March 22, 2018

Farm Fresh!


I just got home yesterday from a trip to Dade City.  The scenery moves from the flat stretches of northeast Florida into the rolling hills of horse country near Ocala and on about an hour north of Tampa.  The sky was bright and blue and the weather was gorgeous both coming and going although there was a pretty nasty spell in between (we almost ended up having to shelter in the closet during a tornado warning!).  

Dade City is a lovely historic town with the most beautiful trees, and right smack in the middle of town there's a fenced pasture with cows!  That just tickles me.  


Today's card showcases the coordinating prints from Authentique's Frontier.  It's an odd size (it'll need a custom envelope) but the measurements and the tri-fold design worked great with 6 x 6 inch designer paper.  

The card base is a rectangle measuring 9 3/4 inches wide x 6 1/2 inches tall.  With the paper in landscape orientation, it is scored at 3 1/4 and 6 1/2 inches to make the zig-zag tri-fold.  


I confess that I didn't actually measure to make the diagonal cut from the left edge of the card front to the top of the 6 1/2 inch score line.  I just eye-balled it!  I also sliced off about 1/4 inch of the remaining flap so that the page tab would line up flush with the adjacent fold when the card is fully closed.  (If you're a stickler for measuring, this edge measures approximately 1 5/8 inches tall on the finished card).  

The designer papers for each panel are approximately 3 inches wide.  Rather than fussing with math and measurements, after cutting them the correct width I just aligned the bottom and sides with the panel edges to make an even border, and then used a straight edge to mark the diagonal to cut at the top.  It is especially easy to do that way if you have a clear quilting ruler that's marked in 1/4 inch increments.

Here are the Stamp Simply products I used for today's project:  
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