Double Z-Fold Card

My friend and fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator has featured one of my cards in her blog and video this week. Jessie Holton has made her own version of the card so I thought I should give people the dimensions, etc, for the one I made. I have placed a link to Jessie's blog at the end of mine.

This is the card that I made and sent to Jessie. 

I know this card as a Double Z-Fold Card. I believe that it's also known as a Gate Fold Card, or Double Gate Fold Card. It's very easy to make and is a good one for beginner card makers.

Materials 

·         6" x 12" plain cardstock, for the card base

·         6" x 6" co-ordinating patterned paper #1 (I used Fresh Florals and Eastern Palace)

·         6" x 6" co-ordinating patterned paper #2

·         6" x 6" plain coordinating cardstock, to provide a surface inside the card for writing (optional, depending on the colour of the card base)

·         Rhinestones or other Embellishments

Equipment

·         Paper trimmer 

·         Bone folder 

·         PickTool 

·         Adhesive

·         Decorative dies and Big Shot or Decorative Punches

·         Stamps (I used Pretty Kitty and Beautiful You)

·         Ink pads to coordinate with your cardstock and paper

Instructions

1.       Score the base cardstock across the long edge at 2", 4", 8" and 10".

2.       Fold the 4" and 8" scores inwards (a valley fold), run bone folder along edges to get a crisp fold.

3.       Fold the 2" and 10" scores outwards (a mountain fold), use bone folder again.

4.       Cut two pieces 1¾" x 5¾" from each of the two coordinating paper (#1 and #2).

5.       Cut one piece 3¾" x 5¾" from the coordinating plain cardstock for the inside or simply stamp a greeting inside the card, if desired.

6.       Punch or die cut some shapes from paper #2 (i.e. the paper that is not going on the front panel), or labels from plain cardstock.

7.       Adhere all panels onto the card base, paper #1 on the front and paper #2 inside the card.

8.       Add the shapes and rhinestones, if desired, to the front of the card (i.e. the far left panel and the far right panel). 

Examples

Here are a couple of cards that I made back in 2015. The ingredients have since retired but they show how you can use punched or die-cut shapes to decorate the fronts of the cards

So, thanks again, Jessie, for featuring my card. Go Here to check out Jessie's blog and watch the video at the end.

Ellen Budden