Here is a sweet little tri-fold card for you to make this holiday season. It is a great design that can be adapted to many kinds of cards, invitations or additions to scrapbook pages. Here are the materials you will need for this design; BS007 Drummer Boy stamp set RSSMB15 Christmas Greetings stamp set Cloud white VersaMagic ink pad Jet Black StazOn ink pad Colored Pencils Light gray marker Prima Poinsettia bubble Prima silk flowers Waxed linen Silver Glimmer Mists Iron Coluzzle and embossing folder (Optional) BasicGrey Figgy Pudding pattern cardstock Dark Suede Prima Cardstock White Cardstock *Idea for tri-fold card from Beate Johns
First thing is to gather your supplies. Your dark suede cardstock is cut 4.25x11" and you will also need a piece of pattern cardstock 3.5x3.5 and also a small 1/2" strip. You will need a piece of white cardstock 3x3 and then just a small scrap.
	Shake up your silver Glimmer Mists very well, until all the mica glitter at the bottom has been disappeared.
Spray your cardstock lightly. Only spray a few times as you want a light sheen that will not overpower the card.
	Then you will want to iron your card, which will dry the Glimmer Mist and also flatten your cardstock which normally buckles a bit when you mist it. Isn't this little pink iron the cutest? It is from Heidi Swapp and we no carry them in our store.
I hope you can see the beautiful and yet sublt sheen of the cardstock?
	This next step is optional if you do not have a Cuttlebug machine. I just got one a month or so ago and really love how it embosses. If you are not familiar with the Cuttlebug machine, it is a die cutter and embossing machine. We do not sell them in our store but I am sure you can find one in your area.
You will need an embossing folder like this one.	.
	Place the card front only inside the embossing folder and sandwhich in between the Cuttlebug plates.
Run this through the machine by cranking the handle.
	Here is how it looks, and it is even prettier in person with the Glimmer Mist.
The one step I did not show earlier was the scoring to create the tri-fold. It is scored at 3.5" on one side and then 4" from the other.
	You will need a piece of pattern paper about 3.5x3.5" which you will cut an oval from the middle. Also cute an oval from your brown cardstock which has already been done in the previous steps. I am using our new EZ Cutter pen with a self healing matt. You can use almost any template that you already own and this template that I used the small oval from, came in their kit. We sell these in our online store.
This system gives you a great results without a lot of investment. I do recommend that you tape down your cardstock/paper when you use the knife.
	Now take your Giga Scalloped oval punch and slip the piece you just cut, inside the punch and center inside the opening and punch out.
Whala!
	Doesn't it look nice glued to the card front?
Now let' do some stamping! Stamp the drummer boy onto the 3x3 piece of white cardstock and the boxed saying onto scrap. I like to use Jet Black StazOn as it is very black and dries instantly. It also will not bleed if you use wet products to color with.
	I just used regular colored pencils to color this cute little boy with. You of course could use many other mediums including watercolor pencils, or chalks, etc.....
A little artist trick I learned a long time ago is to outline your colored image with a light gray marker. What this does is soften the edges and make your image pop off the white paper. You can do this no matter what you used to color your image in with.
	You can now glue your focal image behind your opening, glue your boxed image to the 2nd part of the tri-fold card and then stamp the saying "Merry Christmas from our family to yours" on the 3rd portion of the tri-fold card using Cloud White VersaMagic ink. The stamping looks very clear in real life... I see it looks blurry in this photo but it is not.
Now let's make that cute layered flower thingie on the front of the card. I am using a silk flower, and poinsettia from the Christmas bubble, waxed linen, and mini star brads.
	Take you mini star brad and wrap your waxed linen thread around it. No need to knot it as the waxiness of it will hold it in place.
Then you can place the brad through the layered flower and poinsettia and spread out the prongs.
	Now take a skinny paintbrush and use the end to curl up the ends of the waxed linen. Too cute!!
I love how this looks.
	The last few steps were to glue a strip of pattern paper to the right side of the card and then attach your decorator poinsettia. We made this little card at our last workshop and it was a big hit. The colors are unexpected for a Christmas card and that is what makes if fun! I hope you will try one of these easy tri-fold cards yourself.