TTCRD Blog Hop

Welcome to Through the Craft Room Doors Holiday Blog Hop. Have you checked out the new Holiday Issue of the magazine. Oh it has some really great projects in there for you try for the upcoming holidays.

TTCRD is having a Blog Hop this week! We will have lots of candy and some awesome tutorials that you won’t want to miss.

Start with Through The Craft Room Door Challenge Blog then go to the next one on the list which is  SandSamples-(that’s Me) Leave a comment and go to the next one on the list.

When you have visited each blog make sure you leave a comment on each including TTCRD blog challenge.

That’s all you have to do. The Blog Hop will run for a full week so you will have plenty of time to check out each of the Design Team members blogs and not feel too rushed.


 I will  be picking someone from my comments on this post to win  the candy so for a chance to win the blog candy leave a comment and for two chances become a follower.

 I am offering 2 packs of Candy for this challenge

1.

2.  winner's choice  5  of my digital images

Now on the the tutorial! I chose to do a card using the iris folding technique for this tutorial because it's inexpensive and not too difficult to do if you have never done it before.

The papers that I like to use the most are wrapping paper, because you can get it in many colors including shiny and it's inexpensive. You will need to cut your paper into 1" strips

The tree pattern I had did not fit the die so I traced the outline of the cut die and made my own.

Cut your tree out using a die or an exacto knife using this pattern

I tape the colors I am using onto a piece of paper and place a number under each so I can put the strips  in the right order on the card.

 

You will need to fold the 1" strips in half and crease them well

 

Now all you do is start taping onto the back of your card in the same order you laid out

such as 1=green then 2=red then 3=gold 4=green 5=red 6=gold and just keep adding strips until you get to the center of the card.

If you only put tape on the top of your card you can flip it to see how it's looking.
After I put the white paper on my tree I didn't like it so was able to change it to the gold paper and it looked so much better. It will look a little messy on the back but that won't be seen. In the center try to put a paper that has a pattern and is super shiny because that is your focal point.

After you get all the white filled all you need to do is adhere it to your card and add whatever embellishments you want.

Now it's time to go check out Jo Ham's blog so have fun! 
Don't forget to sign in to the inlinkz on the magazine site for a chance to win a full year's subscription to the magazine.
 Thanks for joining us in our Blog Hop, next you can skip on over to Jo Ham

1.TTCD Blog Challenge

2. Sandi Huggett (Me)

3. Jo Ham

4. Roxann Suits

5. Anne Fenton

6. Darlene Lyons

7. Penny Mull

8. Jen LeeFlang

9. Deonna Bemish

10.Danielle Linton 
11. Colleen Holmes

12. TTCRD Magazine

Here is a free digi just for checking me out!