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Vintage Baseball Z-Card

Over on the Tic Tac Toe Challenge Blog, they offered a wonderful board this week that really got the creative ideas flowing. Let's take a look:

As soon as I saw square, I knew I wanted to make a Z Card. I just learned how to make these cards the other day, and I was excited to implement the technique without the assistance of premade cards. I went into my cardstock collection and found a Recollections pack that was all set to a woodlands theme, from there, the rest sort of fell into place. I went right along the bottom with yellow, square and texture.
I used an assortment of different embellishments from Anna Griffin's Die Cuts for Him. For yellow and texture and die cut and embossed using Anna Griffin's All Square Cut and Emboss Dies. If you don't know how to make a Z fold, it's really simple. You take two square cards (11in x 5.5in) and score at the 5.5in mark on both and on one of them you score at 2.75in. You glue them together and voila!

Here's another pic so you can see a little more of the details:
And here's a video so you can see the card in action:

Be sure to check out my Horse and Carriage Card and my 3D Fantastic Fans Cards which offer another gorgeous antique look. Tune in tomorrow as I go for something I normally never do--a masculine card.

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  1. FreeToBeMe..LisaJAugust 12, 2021 at 9:55 AM

    Danny, What an awesome design! I love learning new techniques when it comes to papercrafting. I'm a new technique junkie :)! Thank you so much for playing alone with us this week!

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