Iris Folded Fan

The fan on this card is an Iris Fold. Small pieces of paper attached to the back of the paper in stair step layering to make the fan look. There are many many different Iris patterns out there but this one is simple and still looks great. I've done a hat as well but there were nearly 52 pieces of paper to layer which made a large baldge on the back of the page.

Tri-fold Split

This is one of my favorite folds but I find limited in use. One piece of a large page with two horizontal cuts with reversed folds in it. It closes to a regular card size for easy mailing.

Jacob's Gate Card

This is a Jacob's Gate fold. I don't have the dimensions right in front of me now but if anyone wants them let me know and I'll post them later. It's one piece of yellow fold on itself with a feature picture stamped and placed in the front so that when the card is closed the picture is centered and the sentiment is behind/inside.

Ink Resist Bears

I chose this card to show because of the brayer technique I used for the white bears. The paper is actually what is white. I used a Verse mark pad to stamp the bears and used a brayer to roll blue ink on to the paper. The Verse mark resisted the ink showing the bears in the original white.

Bought Card 3D Pop-Up

This is such a simple idea and all you need is three to four of the same bought card, scissors and dimensional foam glue squares. Layer one is the original card. Layer two is (in the card) the lighthouse, sand and water. Layer three is the lighthouse and sand. Layer four is just the lighthouse. There is a dimensional square in between each layer.

Milk Carton

A milk carton. I saw a die cut for this paper craft in a catalog and figured out how to do it myself. This is just my rough draft with no embellishments on it, in fact I took it apart for future copies. If anyone wants the dimensions, leave a comment and I'll post them in a later post.

Booklets

So here is picture #1. These aren't cards but they are a paper craft. Books made from one large paper, cut and folded to make little booklets. I made the blue one first in NC and the yellow in MN a few years later.