Graduation Greeting Cards

Graduation greeting cards can be as unique as you want them to be. Consider an accordion card to really make an impact with your message!

"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honours!
~Louise May Alcott "

Making accordion cards for your graduation greeting cards is as easy as folding them over and back. I made a pocket accordion message here and will show you how to do it too.

Here's what you will need:

• Designer paper and cardstock of choice
• A pennant stamp (or make your own) and some letters to spell out your message (I used the Party This Way and Calendar Alphabet and Numbers stamp sets from Stampin' Up!)
• Some thin twine (I used Stampin' Up!'s Linen Twine)
• Stampin' Dimensionals, glue, inks, punches, the normal paper crafter's toolkit

I started with half an A4 sheet of cardstock cut lengthways so I had a long strip to work with. I covered that with designer paper, leaving a small border around it.

Then I worked out the maths of my message. The work "Congratulations" has 15 letters in it, so I knew I needed to have five panels with three letters on each. I scored my cardstock and designer paper strip into five equal parts.

Next I stamped out my pennants and letters and punched them out to form my message, then strung them together with double sided tape and twine.

I placed the pennants in bunches of three on the panels of my cardstock and adhered them down. Some of the pennants overlapped and I decided that didn't matter. If you have a longer message, you might like to use A3-sized paper.

Next I made a second piece of scored cardstock to fit on the back of my decorated piece. I wanted to make pockets to hold some tags with more messages on them. I made the tags first with a punch, adding some eyelets and twine.

Next I added double sided tape to form the pockets (use the score lines to guide you and the tags to measure the depth of the pockets) and add the front decorated piece to the back.

Now fold along your score lines and stand up your card.

As you can see in the first photo, you can now fold the card up and tie it together with tape or ribbon. It will fit neatly into a box this way. You can see the footlocker box under my 3d Papercrafts section.

I'd love to see your Graduation Greeting Cards when you make yours!

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