Pinnacles in print!... again....!

Hi everyone, and how are you today?? If anything like me busy, busy, busy.. But that's fine! I much prefer it that way...

Today I have great pleasure in letting you all know that another one of our creations has made it into print.
The card is featured in Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine issue 64 on sale now from most leading Supermarkets..
You may recall I showed you a sneaky peek way back at the beginning of August, which seems ages ago now, but that was when the magazine requested the sample.. I actually made it in July when it was about 30 degrees outside... It's been a long time coming but I hope you'll agree, worth the wait!!! More commissions to come as well!!! So watch this space...
So, now that the card is winging it's way back to Pinnacle Crafts from the photographers, I thought I'd share the instructions with you on how to make it.

Cut out the Flippin Santa Peace image and put it together, I applied Diamond Stickles to Santa's suit and to the toilet chain, just to add a bit of bling!!!

Take a 12" x 12" piece of glossy White card stock and measure in 3" from the right hand side and make a mark with your embossing tool at the top of the card stock, measure in from the left hand side and make a mark at 3". Repeat this along the bottom edge of the card stock. With a ruler and an embossing tool, join the top and bottom marks together.
Measure 4" down the side of the card on both the right and the left hand sides and make a mark, From the top of the card at 3" cut a line with your craft knife to meet these 4" marks, I.E cutting away the top corner of the card stock.
Using a Guillotine cut 1" from the bottom of the card stock.
Measure down the original 3" scored lines to 8" and make a mark. At these marks score all the way across your card stock. Lastly, cut away the bottom square from the card.

This will leave you with a shape like this...
I wanted a modern looking bathroom for this card so I chose to use some Navy Blue striped paper.
This was cut to fit just inside all of the scored lines. Initially I covered the scores lines but the card would not close properly and the paper just got all creased up!!

I used strips of Black Mirror card to add a skirting board and picture rail...

I then cut out 1" squares from my Cricut Machine or you could use a 1" square punch.

I wanted a tiled effect for the floor and the "waste" from this cut fit's the bill perfectly. This is also the reason I used White glossy card stock.. I love the effect that you can see Santa's reflection in the floor.. Cool eh!!

I also used the 1" squares for the window frames, attaching them to some wintry scene backing paper...

I'm really proud of this card and appreciate all the comments we have had on it so far, even the editor gave us a call to tell us how much she liked it!!!

Oh, nearly forgot.. It folds down to go easily into an A5 envelope so there's no need to make a tricky box...

Thanks for checking us out, see you soon...
Pinnacles.