Thursdays with Sandiebella

DT Thursday: Create a fun Concertina Fold Card with Sandiebella!

It’s Thursday, again! Good job we have another fun card making project from Sandiebella to help distract us from the weeks whizzing by. Click on through for Sandiebella’s fab step by step tutorial.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Concertina Fold Card Tutorial:

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Supplies: 

White Card
Winter themed designer papers (Echo Park Hello Winter used)
Circle and Scalloped Circle Die
Embellishments of choice
Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Step by Step

Cut two pieces of white card measuring 11″ x 5.75″ and one piece measuring 5.5″ x 5.75″
Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Score the 11″x 5.75″, on the 11″ side, at 2.75″, 5.5″ and 8.25″

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Using a ruler, measure 1.5″ down on one end of the 5.75″ side and mark with a pencil.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Position the card in your trimmer to that it cuts from the 2.75″ scoreline, diagonally, to the 1.5″ pencil mark. (not the best angle to get a photo)

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

This is how it should look. Repeat on the second piece of 11″ x 5.75″ card.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Mountain/Valley fold the pieces, ensuring the middle section is folded upwards (mountain)

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Repeat for the other piece of card.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Adhere one piece of card ot the 5.5″ wide x 5.75″ tall piece of card, ensuring the fold is in the middle.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Repeat for the other side,

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

To make the designer paper layers, cut the paper at 2 3/8″ and position it onto the section you are cutting for. DO NOT ADHERE.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Using a pencil, mark the paper on each side, about 1/8″ down from the top of the card, to get the angle you need to cut at.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Repeat for any sections you are going to cover.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Adhere all of the paper down.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Stamp the image and colour using your preferred medium.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Cut out, using a circle die.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Cut a scalloped circle, slightly larger than the image circle.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Adhere the image to the scalloped circle.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

To hold the card in place, I applied a small strip of double sided tape to the centre of the front panels. This is not compulsory, I just found it held the card closed and made positioning the image easier.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Adhere the image to the centre.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Embellish as desired. I added some snowflakes and icicles.

Stamping Bella - DT Thursday - Create a Concertina Fold Card. Click through for the full tutorial by Sandiebella!

Over To You!

Hopefully I’ve inspired you to sit down and try your hands at this lovely project.

We also encourage you to share your personal favourite Stamping Bella creations with us. We LOVE to see what you’ve been creating with Stamping Bella stamps.

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Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING!

7 Comments

  1. denise i says:

    great tutorial! Love it!!

  2. sheron egolf says:

    Where did you get the icicles? Is it a die or a packaged embellishment? Love the card.

  3. Oh this is soo coool! I have this one bookmarked too! I’m definitely going to try this one! 🙂

  4. Gail Plaskiewicz says:

    What a pretty card and i like how it’s folded. Does it cost more to mail this card? It looks a little hard to make for me but I will study it and see. Maybe I can actually make one! If I do, I will make sue I let you guys see it.

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