April 2023 Card Layout #6, Part 2

April Card Layout #6, Part 2

SU’s Desert Details Bundle and Delicate Desert DSP.

This fun fold card is sometimes called the lattice split card or lattice front card. For my first version in part 1,  I used SU’s Nature’s Prints Bundle and Sun Prints DSP. Be sure to go to my blog post for part 1 of this fun fold for measurements and pictures to help with the construction of this layout. 

After thinking about this fun fold, I wanted to make the fence look like the fences we have for our horses. Many of the fence posts are railroad ties-pretty much a solid rectangle piece of wood treated with creosote, a black tar like substance. Here is my version.

For this version of the lattice front card, I started with 8” x 4 1/4” card base, scored 

at 5 1/2”. I used SU’s blending brushes to make a sunrise/sunset to the top portion of the card front with SU’s Classic Stampin’ Pads for Mango Melody, Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral, and Pumpkin Pie.

I die cut nine strips of Soft Suede cardstock about 4 1/2” long using the die from the Desert Details Bundle. Then use a sponge dauber and Soft Suede ink to darken each strip to look like creosote. Next put a piece of painter’s tape down back side of the top of the card front.  Add 5 of the strips to the sticky side of the painter’s tape starting with the first strip line up with the bottom of the card. (Post It Labeling and Coverup Tape can be used also.)

Adhere two strips side by side to the 5 strips with liquid adhesive to make each of the fence posts look wide like railroad ties. After the adhesive dried, I removed the painter’s tape and trimmed the excess from the ends of the fence posts. 

I added a 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” piece of Desert DSP to the inside of the card so that it would show through the picket fence like a green pasture. I stamped and die cut images for the card front and added some embellishments. I adhered and trimmed a  2 1/2” x  6” panel of DSP to the envelope flap.