Diamond Fold Card Tutorial

Today's card features the diamond fold.  It's a springy little card that's lots of fun to make and is surprisingly easy to do.

I'll show you a fall version, using Spice Cake DSP and the Gently Falling stamp set and a Christmas version, using our felt pieces for quick accents.

 

Start out with a piece of CS that is 4 X 12" for your card base.  Actually, if you score an entire sheet of DSP and then cut your strips at 4" each, you can create 3 card bases at once.

You'll score at 2, 6 and 10."  Do all your folding, as shown and you'll end up with an 'x' shape across both sides of your card.  This is what helps you create the diamond fold.

You can decorate the panels with layers of CS or other DSP, as desired.

Flip it around and fold again, the same way.

It starts to kind of fold itself.  Do a gentle pinching on each side to help it go into the diamond shape.

 

 See how springy it is.

Here's the Christmas version.  The plaid DSP is from the Frostwood Lodge collection and the dotted piece is from the Regals paper stack.  I used artichoke and cherry cobbler colors.  I also used one of the scallop circle pieces from the pennants die.  I love the cute little circle it makes.
Tip:
I used our Liquid Tombow to glue on both of the felt pieces.

Because this card base is CS instead of DSP, you can really see the 'x' shape I mentioned earlier.  The CS is a little more difficult to fold than DSP for the card base, but quite doable.
Tip:
Be sure to use the Simply Scored tool and your bone folder, to get crisp, clean folds.

The plain piece on the inside is for your message -- stamped or hand written.

 

Would you like to see a little video tutorial for this project?  Copy and paste this url and go to my daughter's blog and you'll see the video I filmed for her.  She added some cute trim to her card with a border punch.
http://inklingsbyjenn.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-first-video-tutorial.html

Now go try one.  Enjoy!

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