Thursday Oct 29 10 minute card challenge, Mini Card Holder Oct 29, 2009

It's Thursday again and the 10 minute card challenge

that Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

do each week keeps my mojo going.

Click on each photo to see a larger view

I just had to make one of Jan Farring's Mini Magazine File.

I've seen these being paraded around the web

and put it in the too hard basket because I'd never seen

a tutorial before hers.

She was so correct when she said they looked

confusing but once you've done one

they are easy peasy!!

Here's Blythe's version

I made 13 in 2 hours.

Now I had to alter mine abit because it would

not fit our card size which is slightly larger

than US size. Jan kindly gave me permission

to post up my version of the tutorial.

Ingredients: 1 of 12" x 12" textured cardstock

1 of dsp 1" x 12"

1 of dsp 1" x 5 1/2"

1 of dsp 1" x 4"

Red liner tape

Score 1 1/2"and 6 1/2"

Turn around and score 5" x 7"

Cut the 1 1/2" and 6 1/2"lines up to the 5"mark

turn cardstock and cut to the 7"line

This is what it should look like,

Score the middle piece at 2", 3 1/2", 8 1/2"and 10"

Make a pencil mark 1"up the top part

and 1 1/2"on the right side of the 7" score

Cut that triangle off

Do the same on the other side where the 5"

score is

Cut just a small piece off the middle section

...............and the other side

Make your folds with the middle piece

valley, valley and mountain fold as shown

Fold the 1 1/2"part up as in photo

Tuck the middle piece over like this

Turn around and do the other side, no tape needed for this

Flip over and lay red liner or sticky strip

tape as shown, if you don't use

the sticky strip it will pop open

believe me I was being stingy

with the first one and everything

fell apart LOL

Remove sticky strip backing and hold

the section and shown and slowly

let it stick to the smaller section

Lay it down and smooth it out

...turn over and do the other side

Stick the 5 1/2"dsp to the back of the card holder

you can be stingy here and use the snail

Take the 4"dsp and place it on the back as shown

Lastly place the 12"dsp over

Here are some of the ones I did

ok I skipped lunch to do these

it's now 2.30pm and my stomach is rumbling hee hee

p.s. just moving my creations over from an old blog