Tropical Escape Die Cut Tri-Fold Card with Tutorial

Still can't get enough of this square die cut panel in the Tropical Thinlits dies... but wanted to do something a bit different for a card... and it caused quite a reaction in the flesh! Along with a few "how the heck did you do that?"s

So I created a simple Tri Fold card...  by taking half a piece of A4 card ie 10.5cm x A4L (29.7cm)... and scoring it LANDSCAPE at 9.9cm from either side (for US Letter Size card... 4 1/4" x 11" piece... score at 3 11/16" from either side) 

Then Bone Fold in Z fold or concertina fold fashion (Peak fold for left, Valley for right)

I then die cut a Layering Squares (7cm) aperture through the front section... 

Then lined it all up... taped Tropical leaves die down where required... and die cut the white leaves panel in the central section... 

And a separate leaf panel in Lemon Lime Twist (7cm or 2 7/8" card)

Note that my white leaf panel is die cut so that the "right face" is on the inside of the card... which means that the "wrong face" is actually showing to the front of this card... obvious what that means if you make one! And it doesn't matter if yours are the other way round!!

Stuck Lemon Lime Twist leaf panel over front of die cut leaf panel... Slightly off so that you can see a shadow on both sides... and the "wrong way round" in my case!!!

And stuck my front and central faces together.... note that the folded edge is to the right hand side of the card front...

Die cut a couple of Layering Squares frames... one straight edge for the front in Granny Apple Green... and a scallop edge one in Lemon Lime Twist for the centre (using 7.5cm or 3" square card pieces)... 

Then stuck the frames around as required...

And finished off the back face with a piece of Tropical Escape paper (9.5cm W x 10cm H or US 3 7/16"W x 4"H) and a Granny Apple Green Tropical Chic greeting

Oh my gosh what a lot of words for such a simple-in-style card!! But I know there are some of you that will appreciate it!

Note that US followers using US Letter sized card will have cards that are slightly less wide and higher... and therefore a narrower border around the leaves area to the top of the card..

And one final tip for you... it was easier to die cut the scalloped frame in one go with the 2 dies ...than the straight edge frame... so a remake would have  scalloped ones!!