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 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm sharing a top folding card made with the beautiful Royal Navy Heritage collection.

I started by choosing and cutting my layers. I love the gold splodges on the stripey card, so added some more gold splashes of paint myself.

I used the 'sailor' word from one of the atc sheets in the collection, and made a button from the papers. Then it was just a case of layering them all together.

It's not often that I make top folding cards so I'm really happy with this one.

I LOVE the postcards in the collection.

And the ATC words make great embellishments.

It's a really lovely collection, and as always it can be found here in Sally's store in both digital and physical papers.

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Dreams At The Beach

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Well it's almost as if Summer has come back, so this card made with the Dreams At The Beach collection from Relatively Thoughtful feels very fitting!

It's a triple stand up card that I've made following a tutorial by Paul Lang-Ford of Papercrafting With Paul. If you click on the link it will take you straight to the tutorial. This was such an easy card to make, but I think that the idea is amazing, so effective!

I started by making my layers and stands. I used a 8x6 top folding card as my base to make it easier to stand up.

These are the papers that I've chosen, the postcards are 6x4 and are all from the Dreams At The Beach collection.

The layers are all cut. I've also used the title from the front sheet from the collection.

And this is how it looks when it's all layered up.

Just look at the dimension here! It has such mantle-piece appeal, yet it comes together really easily. Paul has done all the hard work with the measuring - his tutorials really are excellent.

I was looking for a die-cut for the front, but I really like how the title looks here.

And of course, it all folds flat for posting.

As always the collection is available in Sally's store as both download and physical paper collections.

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In The Navy

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. 

I've just received some beautiful new papers from Sally at Relatively Thoughtful, and this one is The Royal Navy Heritage Collection.

Once again I've made a pinwheel tower card as I think that these really show off the papers beautifully.

The collection comes with these beautiful 6x4 postcards so I knew that my card needed to be big enough to take them.

Here's my template. The base card needs to be 10.25 x 6.25, and it's folded at 1, 2, 3, and 4 inches and glued. You also need 3 pieces cut to 6.25 x 4.25.

I always use a good wet glue to make my tower. You'll find this in the store.

Then you just glue the other pieces of card to the tower.

So my postcards are 6x4, and my base card is 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 That means that my matts must fit in between them, so they are cut at 6 1/8 x 4 1/8. The maths is very precise, but my eyesight and trimmer - not to much lol. 

There's also a really lovely ATC cut apart sheet and I've used some of these too.

So in no particular order, here's side 1.

Side 2.

Side 3, -I'm loving these ATCs on the left hand side.

And side 4.

The obligatory shot from above lol.

And it all folds flat for posting.

The collection can be found here in the store in both digital and physical collections. The postcards and photographs are amazing!

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A Floating Gatefold Card

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. We've had every type of weather here except snow, so it's rather fitting that I'm continuing with my Christmas In July theme with my Relatively Thoughtful papers.

I followed a tutorial by Paul (Papercrafting With Paul), and while I won't say this was easy, only one ended up in the bin! It was my own fault, I got a little overexcited with the wet glue lol. 

You can find Paul's excellent facebook group here.

And the Youtube tutorial here.

I started by making my base card - I decided that black would look nice with these Christmas papers.

Then I chose my papers. I've used a combination of Christmas MAGIC and A TREEmendous Christmas.

This is the front with the base papers added. I love that you get the chance to really show off the papers.

Even the back looks pretty! I just need to add a sheet of white so that I have somewhere to add my sentiment.

And here we are with the embellishments and a sentiment.

Such cute snowmen!

I think that the knitted backgrounds go perfectly with the patterned images.

So pretty!

And it all folds flat to fit in a 7x5 envelope!

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I hope you are enjoying our Christmas In July event, it's never too early to start with the Christmas crafting lol.

Take care and have a very happy week x

A Pinwheel Christmas Card For Relatively Thoughtful

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! Today I'm really happy to be sharing a Pinwheel Tower card made with the fabulous Christmas MAGIC collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

One of the best things about this card is that you can add loads of embellishments and it still folds flat for postage.

I started by choosing my papers. Because this card has four surfaces you can really go to town with the papers.

I started by making my base card. I cut my card to 14.5 cms which means that I can build the card with just 2 sheets of A4. I always use wet glue to make these, and this is my favourite and can be found in Sally's store.

Then I cut my papers, inked the edges and added some stitching. The knit effect papers work beautifully with all the images. You can mix them up, or if like me you can't do random you can match them lol.

There are also loads of cut-apart sheets to make your tags and toppers from.

And lots of sentiments too.

These papers are so fabulous and colourful!

And, as said before, it folds flat for postage.

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Take care and have a very happy Sunday whatever you are doing - I'm meeting up with my teamie Karola at a crafty open day, so I'll be having lots of fun!

Have a very happy and crafty week xx