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DT Thursday: Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Time for another awesome DT Thursday tutorial! This week Sandiebella is sharing the instructions to make an adorable Carousel Card featuring those scrummy little Stamping Bella dragons!

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Carousel Card

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Supplies:

Set of Dragons Stamps and CUT IT OUT Dies. Also available as a BUNDLE (save 15%)
White card
Patterned papers
Ribbon
Stitched circle dies
Stitched square die
Embellishments of choice
Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

How To:

Cut four pieces of white card measuring 6″ x 6″. Score all four pieces at 3″, flip 90 degrees and score again at 3″. Score diagonally once.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Turn the card so that the diagonal is running from top left to bottom right. On the bottom left 3″ square, score at 2.5″

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Cut away the bottom left panel, to the 2.5″ scoreline, and make a tab by tapering in the edges.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Cut the angles to the same angle of the scoreline. I like to nick a little piece out of the very corner, for a neater fold.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Fold the diagonals mountain and the vertical/horizontal lines valley. Crease with a bone folder.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Apply glue or double sided tape to the inside of the 0.5″ tab and adhere to the outside of the panel beside it.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Burnish with a bone folder.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Ensure the tab isn’t overlapping the diagonal scoreline. If it is, just trim it away with a scissors.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Fold up the centre and crease all the score lines well.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella! Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Make all four sections.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Once you have all four sections made, apply glue to the outside and adhere them together.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella! Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Do not adhere the first and last one together.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Cut 10 pieces of white card measuring 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ and 10 pieces of patterned paper measuring 2.75″ x 2.75″

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Adhere the patterned papers to the white card to make 10 decorative panels.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Adhere 8 of the panels the inside walls of each section

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Cut 4 pieces of patterened paper measuring 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″ and cut each one diagonally.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Adhere them to each side of the scorelines within each section.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella! Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Cut, or punch 4 circles, and the same amount of smaller circles.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Stamp, colour and cut out the dragons using the coordinating dies. If you don’t have the dies, you can fussy cut around each one.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Adhere each of the smaller circles to the larger ones and then, using 3D foam, stick a dragon on each one. Stamp and cut out the sentiment, either with a paper trimmer or die.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!
Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Add some small embellishments to the sentiments.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!
Adhere a dragon and a sentiment to the walls in each section. Alternatively, you can leave one wall blank for a personal greeting, or add a photo.
Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Cut two lengths of ribbon measuring approx 9″

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Adhere the ribbon to the back and front.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Once the ribbon is secure, adhere the 2 remaining panels.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Cut the large Dragon sentiment, either with a paper trimmer or a square die

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Adhere it to the front of the closed card and add embellishments as desired.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Use the ribbon to tie the card closed, booklet style, and to keep the card open by tying the back and front together. Ensure the centre of each section is pinched up slightly so that the card will spin when pushed.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella! Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Carousel Card with Sandiebella!

Over To You!

If you try out the techniques shown in any of the posts with your Stamping Bella stamps, be sure to share! We would love to see the results and hear how you feel about them. Show off your creations in the comments below and even better, share your own favourite tips with us. Let’s talk stamping!

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Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING!

MWAH

Elaineabella

15 Comments

  1. Jane Crisci says:

    Another awesome card!!!

  2. Jary Riolo says:

    What a fun card!!! I can see so many possibilities for this little project!! Your directions are wonderful!!Thank you!

  3. Jennifer Dix says:

    What an Awesome Tutorial will have to give this one a go. <3

  4. Nancee Purdum says:

    Oh this is awesome! I’m going to have to try this one! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂

  5. Gail Plaskiewicz says:

    I love, love, love this! Even though your tutorial is great, I don’t think i could make this card. I thank you for showing this to us though.

  6. karen christanell says:

    A dear friend of mine, Patty, made this darling project for me! It’s a wonderful keepsake, congratulating me on the arrival of our newest grandson. What a unique little project!! I will treasure it forever. <3
    Thank you for the wonderful directions. I plan on making one for a good friend's grandchild!

  7. Christine Jannetto says:

    This is amazing. I hope to make a few of these for my daughter when she goes to HS in a new school (most of her friends are going to another school)… It would be nice to give her a memories card for her to have and give copies to her friends for the 1st day of school.

  8. Nancy says:

    Thank you for a great tutorial,must try this!

  9. Jeanne Smoker says:

    When you show it broken down it doesn’t look so monumental, but doing it may be a little harder to do. But I love the sentiments, and will take the advice!! lol I would love to make this card!!

  10. kathy says:

    Thank you so much! This card style is so popular in the UK and the EU, I had always admired it but could never figure out how to make one!! I did not even know this was called a “carousel card.” I usually see them decorated so each section looks like a room, ie. for Christmas, one room would have a fireplace on the wall, the next room a tree etc. I can’t thank you enough!!!

  11. Donna M Knight says:

    This looks like something I am going to try. Truly unique. Thanks

  12. Maria says:

    We have been set to make a fun fold card for next week challenge so hoping to make one of these. Hopefully I will understand to follow your instructions to the letter, I’m no good with inches but hoping hubby can help hihi TFS

  13. Maria says:

    Fun fold card, perfect for our Challenge card we been set for next week.Thank you for your great tutorial x

  14. Chrystal Wycoff says:

    I saw this cool looking card on Pinterest and decided that I had to write the directions down so that I could make it, but of course use what I have at home. I will more than likely turn it into a Christmas Carousel card. Love those adorable dragons..

  15. Chrystal Wycoff says:

    I have some Stampingbella stamps too but I am thinking about making a Christmas version one of this. I love fancy fold cards.

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