JD Papercrafts: Noble Peacock Teepee Card

This card is inspired by a card a good friend of mine taught our craft group last week. Under her instruction I made the card below, but it's quite a large card and needs a handmade envelope for a good fit!

So I thought I'd adapt it, to fit a normal C6 envelope, and make it from half a sheet of A4. For those of you in the USA, I'll also include the adaptations you'd need to make if you are using 8 1/2" x 11" card.

I made mine using Blueberry Bushel card & decorated it with the beautiful Noble Peacock Speciality DSP. I cut the peacock & feathers, using the Detailed Peacock Dies, from Noble Peacock Foil Sheets.

Hope you like it

Thanks for stopping by

Jane x

Instructions:

Cut a sheet of cardstock in half vertically. 4 1/8" x 11 11/16" (10.5cm x 29.7 cm) (US: 4 1/4" x 11")

Now cut that piece at 8 1/4" (21cm) (US: 8 1/2")

Trim the smaller section to make a square 3 7/16" x 3 7/16" (8.7cm x 8.7cm) (US 2 1/2" x 2 1/2")

Score the larger piece @ 4 1/8" (10.5cm) (US: 4 1/4")

Now score both pieces diagonally as in the diagram below

Fold & burnish all score lines.

On the wrong side of the larger piece, mark a point in pencil, on the centre score line, 1" (2.5cm) (US: 2 1/2") below the point where the score lines meet.

To decorate you will need 2 squares of DSP 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" (9.5 x 9.5cm) (US: 4" x 4")

and 1 square of DSP. 2" x 2" ( 5 x 5cm ) (US: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4")

Cut all squares in half diagonally.

Adhere the 4 large triangles to the larger piece of cardstock as in the picture below.

And add the adhere the smaller triangles to the smaller piece of cardstock as below (NB if you are following US instructions, your DSP will approximately fill half of your card)

Now adhere your small piece to the inside of the large piece, by lining up the point to the pencil mark, as in the picture below, making sure you only use glue on the part of the card that doesn't have DSP attached. (NB if following US instructions your small square will line up the upper point on the pencil mark, and the left & right points will line up on the bottom of the larger card)