This card fold tutorial is a little tricky but with some patience you can create a beautiful card. These days, it doesn’t seem too difficult to find someone who is struggling with something in their life or someone who is unwell.
Sometimes sending something unexpected with a pop of surprise can help make someone smile when they’re not feeling the greatest.
That’s why I like this card. It looks interesting from the outside but it becomes something like a burst of surprise from the inside.
Let’s get started!
1. Start with a 11” x 11” piece of card stock.
2. Score at 2 ¾ and 8 ¼ from top to bottom and right to left.
3. Now fold the corners into the center of the card.
4. This is the trickiest part: Open up the entire card and fold the outside edges into peaks and valleys around the center square fold of the card like this:
5. You can either stop and start decorating your card at this point or add an additional fold to turn your card into a rectangle instead of a square. I chose this option for my card because, although the square version is beautiful, I didn’t have an appropriately sized envelope. The rectangle version is much easier to find an envelope for.
6. For the belt: I used a 12” x 1” piece of card stock and wrapped it around the card to determine where to glue the ends so that the belt would fit snugly but not too tight.
Let’s Decorate!
I used a lighter weight paper and my scalloped square die to cut out several squares.
Then I used a guillotine paper cutter to cut each square in half corner to corner to create a bunch of triangles.
3. Next, I glued the triangle shapes onto each triangle fold of the card stock and cut 2 additional rectangular folds to add to the center square of the card (2 pieces to compensate for the fold in the middle).
4. After this, I glued on some Silver Petals Gemstones by Nuvo to add a little more interest.
Decorating the belt:
I embossed the entire belt using my favorite embossing folder.
Then I grabbed some of my favorite shape dies (a scalloped square and a glittery heart to overlap it with.
I printed out my “Get Well Soon” message on my Dymo label maker and used a smaller scalloped square die to create another square shape.
4. Once the center piece layers were attached and glued to the belt, I added a couple additional gemstones and slid it over the top of the card and down to the center.
5. Now my card was complete and ready to be shipped off!
6. Enjoy!
