Card and card holder tutorial.

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A week or so ago I posted a few crafts, and someone asked for a tutorial. And I just now got around to it.

This is a set of four cards in a card-holding folder. Each card is like a little envelope, and the inside of the card is a little insert you pull out to write on or whatever.

You will need:
4 12x12 inch pieces of cardstock, in three different colors.
4 pieces of decorative paper. (You don't use very much of it.)
Decent white printer paper
Ribbon
Four envelopes.



Tools:
Glue (hopefully a glue stick and glue lines)
A large and small round punch.
A large flower punch.
A border punch or decorative scissors.
A corner rounder (or a good eye for it)
A scoring tool.
A good straight edge cutting tool.
A sponge.
An ink pad.
A computer and printer.



1) Cut all of your paper.

The cardstock you have two of:
-two 6.5x6 inches
-one 1.5x6 inch
-three 2.75x6.75 inches (note: I ran out of paper, which is why my pockets are different colors. If you like it, make two 2.75x6.75 pieces out of a different paper.)

Each of the cardstocks you have one of:
-one 5.5x8.5
-one 3.5x5.25

Each decorative piece of paper
-one 2.75x5.25
-one 1x5.25
-one flower punch

Any decorative piece of paper
-two 1x5.75
-one 2x5.5



2) Making the card-velopes

Fold your four 5.5x8.5s in half.
-Score them on one side, one inch from the edge, and fold it outward (see picture)
-Round all of the corners.
-Glue your 2.75x5.25 piece of decorative papers on as shown.
-Glue one end of a strip of ribbon onto the folded-out flap. Wrap it tightly around the card, and glue the other end just above it. This holds the little card-velope closed.
-Glue a punched flower over where the ribbons meet.
-Print friendly words like "Friends" and "Smile" in a matching ink color. Punch them out with the smaller circle punch, and sponge them with matching ink.
-Glue the little circle over the center of the flower.



3) Making the card inserts

-Use the border punch or decorative scissors on the 1x5.75 inch pretty paper strips.
-Glue to the edge of the 3.5x5.25 piece of cardstock.
-Insert into the card-velope.
-Well, that was easy.



4) Scoring the card holder parts

-Score the 1.5x6 piece at .5 inches and 1 inch. This is the long way, of course, so your score lines should be six inches long and dividing the piece in long skinny thirds.
-Score the 2.75x6.75 at .25 and .5 inches from the side on both short sides and one of the long sides. It should make a U with double lines.
-Cut the little squares out on two corners as shown.
-Repeat with all three pieces.
-Fold on all scored lines.



5) Decorating and gluing the card holder

-Glue the 1x5.75 pretty paper strips, one to each pocket.
-Glue the 2x5.5 pretty paper piece to the remaining pocket.
-Glue the 6.5x6 inch pieces to the 1.5x6 inch spine, with .5 inches overlapping on each side. (Make sure to glue the 6 inch sides, not the 6.5 inch sides.)
-Glue the two pockets with strips, one to each side of the card holder, with the openings facing outward. Put glue strips on the outer-most fold of the pocket.
-Glue the third pocket to the inside.
-Decorate the cover. For this, I cut a flower out of my patterned paper and glued it on top of a large circle punched out of one of the green sheets. (I sponged it a little first.)

The finished card holder:


The inside, stocked with envelopes.


The four cards I made, and two my mother made since I had all the supplies out.



And my cards in their holder: