Tutorial - greeting card keeper

Happy New Year!
Thought that I'd start off the year with a tutorial for you.

You got all these wonderful cards from friends and family members - but what do you do with them after the holiday season?

Well you can make a greeting card folder to put on display year after year...

Here is how you make it.

You will need:

• Fiskars Scissors
• Fiskars Trimmer with cutting and scoring blade
• Fiskars Fingertip craft knife
• Left over Christmas cardstock - small bits fine
• Black felt pen
• Ribbon
• Adheasive
• hot glue gun
• 12x12 sheets of cardstock (about 3)
• Some cardboard that is big enough for the cover base of your folder

Method:

Gather all your cards together and put them in order of size

This will help you to determine the size of your folder and your spine width.

Score your spine on your cardboard. Using the stack of cards as a guide and adding an inch either side of that. (ie: if your cardstack measures 1" high then make your spine 3" wide.)

Cut 12x12 piece of cardstock a little smaller in height of your folder. Mine was 12" x 11" yours maybe different.

score your cardstock at 1" intervals

fold them in a zig zag style.... each valley is where your greeting cards will go later. So count up your valleys if you have 15 cards then you will need 15 valleys.

I added three cardstocks together to get the amount of valleys I needed.

on the back of each greeting card put adheasive down near the folded spine

Now add your cards to the zig zag folded cardstock

this is all my cards added.

grab your glue gun and put it down the end of your zig zag piece and glue to one side of your spine inside your cover.

then do the other side

leaving a gap on the spine.... most important!

Here is mine closed.
Its quite a thickness this year.

When you open it it will be like this - the middle may pop out too but its easily put back into place.

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Now to decorate the cover...

Find your pieces of christmas left over cardstock and if not in bits already cut it into bits. :)

adhere the pieces of cardstock onto the front of your greeting card folder.

Trim the edges with your Fiskars scissors and draw the zig zag stitching on with a black marker pen.

Add a title panel.

using the Fiskars finger tip craft knife cut slots either side of the spine (not cutting the cards inside) and feed the ribbon through like the above picture shows.

On the back cover cut a slot near the open side.

Your ribbon will help you keep the folder closed

Then you have finished! I did how ever add a hand cut holly embellishment on the front. Thought it needed something else.  ;)

Here are other examples of card holders I made in the past....

Thank you for visiting. Hope you have a crafty year!

We would love to see yours if you make one....
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Debbie Buckland
artycrafty.wordpress.com

 

 

 

Comments

[TracyM]

Happy New Year Debbie!!!

Thank you for this fab card tutorial and for all the fun projects you have shared during 2011 - looking forward to seeing how you will continue to inspire us during 2012 :)

[Debbie b]

Thanks Tracy

[Debbie C #4668]

What a great card holder idead Debbie...thanks for sharing the how to's

[Debbie b]

You are welcome