Fold Greeting Card

A two fold greeting card is easy to make and looks so interesting!

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold
~Oliver Wendell Holmes"

This kind of card is sometimes called a stair step card, or it could also be known as a variation of an accordion card. All you need to do is add another two folds to the card front and you will have added a whole new dimension and a whole lot of interest! You will see that the choice of designer paper also makes a huge difference to how interesting this one looks.

Here are some of the papercraft tools I used to make this greeting. I started with some complimentary colours in inks, card stock and designer paper, found a sentiment stamp that fit within an oval scalloped punch and that could then be layered onto a scalloped circle shape, used my distressing tool to add interest to the strip of paper for the front fold, a bone folder, and there was plenty of double-sided tape and stamping dimensionals used as well.

To create the accordion part, make a card blank with a front piece about five centimeters (2") longer than the back. Score and fold at 2 1/2cms (1") and 5cms (2"). Be sure to fold the first fold as a mountain fold and the second fold as a valley fold. Crease these well with a bone folder.

You will want the front of the card to be capable of folding flat, like this, so you can easily place it in an envelope and it will stand up well when unfolded:

After you have the basics done, go ahead and decorate your card. I chose to cut a piece of plain-ish paper for the very front of the card and to distress the edges of that with my distressing tool. Then I chose a more decorative piece of designer paper for the main part of the card and wrapped a ribbon around that. I put stamping dimensionals on my stamped, embossed and punched sentiment and adhered it at a slight angle to the very front of the card.

Isn't that a simple way to make an interesting card? Go ahead - make yourself a two fold greeting card today!

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