FUN FOLD FRIDAY

Today I am going to share a double pleated fold card with you.  Here is the card and then I will show you a few tips/directions.

I did use retired DSP, but the rest is current.

First you need a sheet of DSP measuring 5 3/8 x 10.

With the long side at the top of your Simply Scored score at 1 - 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 - 3 - 4 - 4 4 1/2 - 5 1/2 - 6 - 7 - 7 1/2 - 8 1/2 - 9.

Then you need to make some tick marks.  I drew my lines instead so that you could see what it looks like.  If you only make tick marks, you can just score using your paper cutter by connecting the tick marks.

Your tick marks should be at 4 1/2 and 5 1/2 at the top and bottom of the long sides.

Tick marks for the short side should be at 2 3/16 and 3 3/16.

Then score so that you are following the pattern I have shown on the DSP.

Cut off the edges you created.  Then begin to accordion fold from each side, with your first fold on the outside edges being a mountain fold.

I actually put a little adhesive (Fast Fuse) on the inside of the folds since this paper is pretty thick, but that might not be necessary with a more light weight DSP.

Put adhesive on the back of your pleated fold piece and attach it to the base piece, centering your DSP fold piece.

After attaching, turn your card stock over and trim off the edges that show from each side so it will look like the picture above.

Then decorate as you like.  On my card I used the Accented Blooms stamp set and the Ovals Framelits. I also used Rich Razzleberry and Calypso Coral card stock.

I used the inside piece of the stamp set that looks like the tag (you can throw this away when mounting your stamps, but I chose to keep it in case I wanted to use it for something).  I stamped this with Rich Razzleberry, but stamped off twice so that it would be light.  Then I punched it out with the Taylored Tag Punch.

Both the ovals and the tag are popped up with Dimensionals.