This week the tutorial on the website Splitcoaststampers was for a Mitered Frame, so here is my version of how to make a mitered frame with the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set and the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper.  This tutorial really caught my eye and the directions seemed easy enough for me to make! So I tried it!

Since the sample in the tutorial started with a 6″ x 6″ piece of paper, I thought I would just start with the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper since it is already 6″ x 6″. (It’s on the DSP Sale going on now!)

1.  Score the paper at 1/2″ and 1″ on all four sides. Carefully cut off the four corners of the paper where all 4 score lines come together. This will help make the mitered corners later.

2. Fold the corners in up to the inner score line forming a triangle or diagonal on the corner.

3.  Now fold the top edge of the scored area in toward the inner score line and then fold all that into the center of the frame.  This will form the frame.  I suggest just folding all in before gluing to see if you need to do some tiny trimming on any of the score lines or fold something more precisely to get the perfect mitered corners.  When you feel happy with the folding, glue these down forming the frame. Optional:  Fold on all the score lines but instead of adhering down, leave them loose, making more of a 3D frame that is just folded in and “loose”.

Now decorate your mitered frame with whatever “scene” or greeting you would like to have. If you didn’t like the inside paper design, before you fold it all down and glued, you could cut a separate background piece of paper to adhere inside.  You could also have it just a regular square rather than on an angle as a diamond shape.

For me, I chose to stamp and die cut with the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set and the Bouquet Bunch Framelits Dies.  This could be adhered to another piece of cardstock to make a card or you could attach a ribbon to the back to make something to hang for yourself or the recipient. If you leave the folded edges “loose” you kind of have a shadowbox and can embellish that in a different way.  Lots of possibilities for your creative expression!

Here’s another card I made with the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set and Bouquet Bunch Dies so you can see another way to make and embellish a bouquet.

And don’t forget, the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper is one of the selections on the Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Series Paper Sale during July 2018.  Select 3 papers on your order, then the 4th package will be free.

No one would suspect that this interesting piece is made with just one piece of designer paper. Now that you have seen how easy this idea is, try your hand at making a Mitered Frame out of some pretty designer paper or even cardstock.