This week I’m happy to introduce you to another one of my patterned paper templates! This time the templates are for a so-called napkin fold card, or origami fold card. I’ve created several of these cards before, which you can all see in the video below, and I also did a free video tutorial on the technique – which you find embedded below as well.
It’s so fun designing my own papers! This time you can create three different sizes of napkin fold cards, for I designed papers sized 6×6″, 7×7″ and 8×8″, all three are available as one – very affordable! – set in my shop, for you to print as many times as you like, provided it’s for personal use only. I’ve come up with two patterns, one I dubbed Hydrangea, the other Bougainvillea. Hope you enjoy these, let me know in the comment section below!
Napkin fold cards or origami fold cards are always the perfect creative card if you don’t have a lot of time. You can make this within the hour, which adds it to my quick scrap category 🙂
This week I’m sharing three tips with you for this type of card, variations you may not have tried yourself yet and which I hope will inspire you. So check out the video for those tips. Below that you’ll find my free video tutorial for napkin fold cards, which I hope will come in handy 😉
As you may have noticed I really like to use up every last bit of paper I’m using, both the design paper AND the cardstock. So here’s two cards I created with what little I had left from two previous projects. And I’m pretty convinced that if I hadn’t said anything you wouldn’t have noticed these two pieces of postal happiness are actually created from leftovers – for there’s nothing measly about them at all! 🙂
The first card is made from a single strip of cardstock, folded just so, and with a piece of decorative chipboard-turned-magnetized-closure.
The second card is a napkin-fold card with a gloriously embellished belly band. You can make one yourself quite easily – Yes you can! Just watch my free video tutorial and have at it!
So go ye’ all, beeth the Frugallest of Crafters and enjoyeth thee with thy Scraps! 🙂
Recently I showed you my new double-stacked mini album designCelebrate Every Day. On one of its last two pages there’s a special page ornament, a napkin fold origami piece.
Today I’m happy to teach you how to create this piece, and use it as a card instead of a mini album page ornament – so there’s an extra option for you! It’s a free video tutorial, so you can go ahead and create it along with me. 🙂
Here’s the paper supplies you’ll need:
1 piece of cardstock of 30.5 x 30.5 cm (12×12″), or A4-sized (8⅓ x 11¾”)
1 sheet of design paper of 20.3 x 20.3 cm (8×8″)
2 sheets of design paper of 15.2 x 15.2 cm (6×6″)
Distress ink
Sentiment stamp (or birthday stamp, or…)
The entire card could probably be made in about 1 hour; 2 if you’re taking your time to be meticulous and precise 😉
If you’re going to use it as a card, you can simply create a belly band for it. If you wish to create it as a mini album page ornament, you’ll find instructions on how to create the magnetized closure for it in the mini album tutorial in my Etsy shop.
Enjoy creating and let me know if you made one yourself!
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It’s always super fun to design new mini albums! This time, I created an album with two sets of pages, one above the other. Hence, a double-stacked mini album😉 . Almost all pages offer new page designs that I haven’t used in my previous albums.
There are six page assemblies, three above, three below, which together offer twelve interactive page layouts plus some large photo mats. The large front and back covers make up their own interactive pages, twice as large as the regular ones. The album has a magnetized closure and is crisp and clean on the outside, so it will easily fit into your book case.
I found that this design is perfect to create a large album with 6×6 inch papers and only a handful of 12×12 inch sheets. This makes it a lot more cost effective than an album with lots of large pages. The relatively wide spine offers ample room for you to embellish on the inside.
On its last two pages I used some special-folded paper ornaments. Both are covered in the downloadable written tutorial in my shop. For one of them I also made a free video tutorial, which will be available next week in a new blog post.
For this particular album I used the Optimist collection by Prima Marketing, including their sticky tabs, ATC cards, flowers, leaflets and brads.
I hope you’ll all enjoy this design just as much as I do!
If you wish to create this double-stacked album yourself, check out the written tutorial in my Etsy shop, which has 148 pages and 429 (!) pictures.
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This week I’m happy to introduce you to another one of my patterned paper templates! This time the templates are for a so-called napkin fold card, or origami fold card. I’ve created several of these cards before, which you can all see in the video below, and I also did a free video tutorial on the technique – which you find embedded below as well.
