Step One

If you do not know how to capture an image and import it into your Word Processing Programme, this is explained on the CD.

Open the Disk 1 Floral Fantasy, and choose “Script Roses” click on the icon “2 designs to this page” and highlight the second smallest image.  Import into your Word Processing Programme.  There are 12 different images in the Script Roses section and you need all 12.  After you have imported the images, print on the Gentle Gloss Photo Paper.  They will all fit on one sheet.

Cut 12 squares of gold backing paper 4cms x 4cms.  Cut out the rose toppers retaining the border and mount them on the backing paper.  There will be a border of approx 1mm round each topper.

Step Two

Square off one sheet of A4 card (21cms x 21cms). This will be the front of the card.  Retain the off cut for the inside of the card.

Wrong side facing, place your ruler diagonally (corner to corner) across the square piece of card.  On the diagonal mark points 35mm in from all four corners. Shown by the four black dots

Turn the card square on and with your ruler butting horizontally between two black dots, lightly mark from the side edge at:-

26mm  (this should coincide with the black dot),   30mm    47mm    77mm    81mm   128mm    132mm    179mm    183mm (there will be 1mm difference between the last measurement and the location of the black dot).

Repeat with the other three sides of the card.  (These points are shown by the red dots)

Step Three

Wrong side facing place your card onto your scoreboard.  Line two of the black dots upon the centre of one of the grooves and score carefully between the two black dots, making sure you do not extend your score line beyond the dots. Score round the remaining three sides linking the black dots together to form a square.  (If you turn the card over you will be able to see the raised square).

Wrong side facing continue to score horizontal lines this time between the red dots, to create a grid of nine squares with a double score line between each square.  When finished, score again round the outside to neaten off the outside of the square.

Step Four

Optional - Using a corner punch round/decorate the corners.

 Optional Gridding of off cut

Using the off cut mark another grid using the same marking points as the front of the card, marking only one set of three vertical grids, allowing 15mm outside each side of the grid and 26mm outside the top and bottom of the grid.    Decorate the corners using a corner punch

Step Five

Take the second piece of card landscape orientation and mark it out as a gatefold with the centre section approximately 209mm wide and the two side sections approximately 44mm each.  The exact measurements will vary slightly, due to thickness of card and width of your scoring board grooves.  This does marginally affect the folds.  I actually prefer to make my centre section 205mm wide and my two side sections of the gatefold 46mm wide.  I like the front plate of my card to overhang the gatefold slightly.    Glue/DST the right-hand side of the gatefold down and glue the smaller gridded piece of card on top of the glued down section of the gatefold.  Glue the front of the card “A” to the left-hand side of the gatefold.

Fix the mounted toppers to the front and the right-hand side gridded sections of the card.  I prefer to use Collall glue (obtainable from the Website).  I like the fact that I can position the topper/image and then move it if I am not satisfied.

If the spine corners of the gatefold overlap the rounded corners of the front of the card, trim away the excess.

Step Six

Choose a design from the Script Roses and print out One A4 sheet of notepaper.

Cut the notepaper to cover the left-hand side of the inside of the card and fix using double sided tape. Landscape orientation cut a sheet of paper either 210mm x 297mm or 205mm x 297mm.  Attach using double sided tape to the left-hand gatefold section, and make a fold so that the right-hand side of the insert butts up to the inside gridded piece of card.  The left side of the insert will slightly overlap the decorated notepaper insert.

Finished card