This month's swap card needed to be a "fancy fold" (anything other than a regular card) with a winter scene. I decided to make it as a "Dual Side Step" card. Previously I made this as a 4.5" x 6" card with 1 1/2" sides. This time I made it as a 4.5" x 7" with 2" sides. I wanted it to be sturdy, so cut it from a sheet of Adoreable Scoreable (Hunkydory printed card stock). The basic steps for making the card are below:
Card Base:
- Cut card stock to 7" x 9".
- Placing it vertically in front of you. Starting 1" from the bottom edge and ending 2" from the top edge, measure in 2" from one side and cut your card stock. Repeat for other side, making sure the 1" and 2" un-cut portions match the previous slice.
- Turn your card horizontally with the 1" mark on your left. Now you'll be scoring vertical lines between your two cut lines from the previous steps. Measuring from the left edge, score these at 1", 2", 3 1/2", 5" & 7".
- On the outside 2" sections, score at 4 1/2".
- Fold along the center score lines starting from the left: mountain, valley, mountain, valley, mountain. Fold the outside edges in a mountain fold at the card center. Now your card is ready to decorate.
Decorating:
- I started with a Little Book page from the Hunkydory LB of Winter Time, gluing it to a piece of card stock to increase stability.
- Next, I cut the houses/fireworks section away from the people - trimming it to 3" wide & gluing to a piece of snowy paper from my stash. I glued this in place on the last step.
- Then I fussy cut the 3 groups of people. After gluing another piece of the snowy paper to the middle step, I added the groups of people - two to the middle step and one to the back step (using foam tape behind their heads for added dimension.
- Then I made borders from ribbon and added to either side, before adding the foiled greeting (Gemini's All the Happiness foiling stamp)
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