How to Make This Delightful & Easy Fun Fold Card

List of Supplies

• 12 x 12” Card Stock: Solids: From the “Silly Goose” Collection: Find it HERE
• 12 X 12” Patterned Card Stock: “Silly Goose” Collection
• Scrap Piece of White or Vanilla CS for the inside message
• sentiment from “Silly Goose” stamp set by Stampin’Up “sending gaggles of good wishes”
• Paper Trimmer With Scoring Tool: HERE
• Your Favorite Adhesive: I love to use Tombow Mono: HERE
• Card Stock Cutouts, CS Ephemera, Stamps, Dies, Embellishments

Let’s Get Krafty

• First, choose your papers! The “Silly Goose” Collection by Carta Bella is absolutely lovely. It’s a nice heavy weight paper and it’s textured. I love it. However, you can use any 12 x 12” CS you wish to make a fun fold card like this. There are so many choices when it comes to CS. I love to buy my patterned CS in sets or collections because color coordination is already done for us. Also, Scrapbook.com, Stampin’Up, and Simon Says Stamp are just some of the good places to purchase really beautiful card stock.
• Next, you’ll make the 3 layers of this triple z fun fold card.

Creating the Layers of Your Fun Fold Card

• Use your paper trimmer with scoring tool and trim and score as follows:
• Base Layer: Layer 1: Trim to 6 x 12” and Score @ 4 and 8” ( I used a piece of double sided patterned paper here so that the front and back of the card would be decorative.
• Layer 2: Trim to 5 x 11.5” and Score @ 4 and 8” ( I used a piece of solid CS here. )
• Layer 3: Trim to 4 x 10.5” and Score @ 4 and 8” ( I used a piece of patterned CS here. )
• For the Front Sentiment panel, I used one of the CS cutouts from the “Silly Goose” collection. I simply trimmed it down to fit my card. Easy Peasy!
• For the Inside Message panel, I trimmed a piece of white CS to 2 x 3”. I used a bit of light tan ink and blending tool to add a bit of color to this rectangle. Then I used a rubber stamp to stamp the message, “Sending gaggles of good wishes”.

Building Your Fun Fold Card

• Now, you simply use your favorite adhesive to adhere layer 2 to your base layer. Tip: align the right side close to the edge. Place glue on the far right side panel and adhere it to the base. Close your card, and add the glue to the far left side panel.
• At this point, you’ll align layer 3 to layer 2 in the same manner as above.
• Now adhere your focal point, card sentiment to the front of your card. I chose the CS cutout from the pack of paper that has the picnic geese and reads, “This is so the happy place”
• Lastly, adhere your inside message to the right side of your card. And finish this fun fold card by adding any embellishments you like. This paper pack had loads of CS stickers, so I chose one of the strawberries for my message panel. And for the front of the card, I chose to use some little strawberry embellishments I purchased from Stampin’Up!
• That’s it! You’ve now created your own Delightful and Easy Fun Fold Card.

Fun Fold Card—GALLERY

Keeping it Krafty

Ultimately, this is a showstopper of a card to make. Yet it really is easy. You’ll create 3 stepped down layers by simply trimming and scoring your chosen CS. You’ll attach the smaller two layers to your base layer by adhering just the right side and left side panels. There will be no glue on the middle panels. This creates an amazing Triple Z Fun Fold Card. The finished size of this card-as I made it- is 5.14 x 6” and fits a 6” square envelope.

If you’d like to make a matching gift box, check out my last 2 blog posts, see the link below. And I’d love to thank you again for joining me today. This delightfully easy fun fold card will surely WOW anyone receiving it and it’s such a rewarding make. Next week, I’ll share another card like this one using different papers. Follow me on social media—links above— to see what other ways we can craft together. No matter what it is that you decide to make, just make it your own and always remember to keep it krafty!

Until next time,