Trapeze Fold - Beautiful Snowflakes

 

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Finally, we had our first snow of the season.  It all melted by the next day, but while the flakes were coming down, it was beautiful to watch.  All sizes and shapes – they’re amazing.  Thoroughly inspired, I started looking through my supplies for snowflake dies.  This is my first snowflake card of the season.  It’s called a trapeze fold card and totally new to me.  There are several videos on YouTube which were totally helpful in making this card.  More simple than you would imagine.  Take a look.

The color of the sequins did not photograph properly.  A couple of them look black, but they are really a pretty shade of pink.

Here is a diagram of the card base where you can see the score and fold lines and also indicating valley fold and mountain fold.  I hope you'll give it a try.

 

Measurements

White Card Stock 11” x 5 ¾”

DSP 5 ½” x 5 ½”

Scrap of White Card Stock for tag and die cut.

Supplies

Stampin’ Up Snowfall Thinlits Dies

Sentiment from Stampin’ Snow is Glistening

Stampin’ Up Stitched Nestled Labels Dies

Scoring and Folding for Card Base

·       Fold the white card base in half, open it up flat with the inside face up.  Make pencil marks along the score line at 1 ½”, 2 ¼”, 3 ½”, 4 ¼”.  See the diagram below.

·        Make score lines from the marks in the center, two off of them scored from the marks to the left corner; then the other two score from the marks to the right corner.  Turn the card around and score the same way on that side.

·        With the outside of the card base facing up, the middle score lines are mountain folds and the outside lines are valley folds.

 After the folding is completed, if the bottom corners don’t match - with the card closed, you can cut off 1/8” off the bottom to even it out

 

Cutting for DP Layering Panel and Finishing

   ·     At the top of the DP, make a pencil dot at 2 ¼” and 3 1/4”.  Then cut from the markings to the lower corner on each side.

 ·        Adhere the DP Panel, aligning it evenly to the top of the card.  Cut off any excess at the bottom if necessary. 

·        Die cut the snowflakes and adhere to DP panel, along with the tag stamped with a sentiment.

·        I added several pink sequins to the side sections, using glue dots.  Sadly, a few of the sequins look like they are black, but I could not get a better picture.

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