Card Within A Card

Hello, Crafters.

Yesterday Stampin' Up! announced a special promotion on

 recruiting for the whole of July, and what a great promotion it is! 

New recruits can choose one set of ten Ink Pads as well 

as £130 of products - that's almost £200 worth of products for £99! 

If you've been thinking about joining Stampin' Up! it'll be well 

worth you hanging fire until 1st. Juy 2018. More details to follow!

Today's video shows how to make a card with another card inside. I don't 

know if this style of card has another name, but this is what I'm calling it!

 I was inspired by a card I saw in the new annual catalogue, but I 

couldn't quite work out how the fancyfold worked! I decided that I'd

 make a similar card but with one card inside the other. 

The outside card is 5½” x 5½” and the inside card is 4 1/8” x 4 1/8”. 

The window on the catalogue card has been created by one of the

 dies that come with the co-ordinating Storybook Scene Dies. 

In fact, now that I'm looking at them more closely, the two designs 

are quite different! The scene of the mice with the mushroom

 is a complete scene inside the catalogue card, whereas my 

mushroom is on the outside of the inside card and the mice 

are on the outside of the bigger, outer card!

To create the window I die cut the circle, and then made a scalloped die 

cut frame. For the first card I made to test out if my idea would work or 

not, I adhered the smaller card inside the larger card, but it just

 seemed to diasappear.

 I remedied this by adding a layer of Real Red cardstock for 

it to sit on. The difference was amazing. I had a similar issue

 with the die cut circle of the mushroom.

 The circle also seemed to disappear so I decided to add a Real Red Scalloped

 Circle layer underneath it. Again the difference was amazing! But can you believe it,

 I forgot to do the scalloped circle for the card I made in the video! DOH!! 

I have included the extra cardstock needed for this in the list of 

Products & Measurements in the box under the video!

One of my friends in Canada confirmed yesterday that she has been leaving

 comments below my blogs, and wondered if I had withdrawn the

 option, because they weren't being published! I haven't closed the

 option because I enjoy receiving your comments and feedback. 

 Hubby has been investigating the problem yesterday evening and it

 appears it started on 25th May 2018 - which is the day GDPR came

 into force! Cause, or coincidence?? Blogger are aware of the problem

 and are working on finding a fix. I will keep you posted. In the meantime, 

I will post a note everyday, after I sign off, so you'll know when the

 option is working again. Many thanks for your patience, and here's

 hoping That it isn't going to take Blogger too much longer to sort it out!

That's about it from me today, and until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.