Pick of the Week ~ W Fold Cards

Hello there!

It’s my day to share a Pick of the Week here at The House That Stamps Built. The Repeat Impressions stamps that I picked to showcase are:

9104-G, Soaring by to say Hi
9111-I, Bi-plane Silhouette
9112-I, Airplane
2709-I, Large Pine Forest
10307-H, Patti’s Flower Outline
1105-E, Thinking of You

Here is my card…but it’s not a regular card…

…it’s a fun fold! It’s called a W fold card, and I’m going to show you how to make one - it’s SO easy!

Here is the inside of the card:

This card opens with the W mechanism in portrait mode.

Here’s a card that I made a while back that shows the W mechanism opening in landscape mode.
I will include measurements for both folds.

This card uses Repeat Impressions’ stamp 10307-H, Patti’s Flower Outline and 1105-E, Thinking of You. As you can see, I stamped on patterned paper, and fussy cut the flowers.

Okay, here we go!

Card #1:

Start with a card base that is cut to 5.5″ x 8.5″ and score at 4.25″.
Design card front as desired.
Open card to inside. You can leave your card base as is, or add some patterned paper, colored cardstock panel, etc.
Cut one strip of cardstock to 8.5″ x 1″. This will be your W mechanism.
Score this strip at 2 1/8″, 4 1/4″, and 6 3/8″.

Fold into W shape like this:

Apply adhesive to the two outside flaps, and glue to your card base like this:

(you can see that the left fold is valley, the center is mountain, and the right is valley)

Now it’s time to decorate the inside squares!

Here’s what it looks like as it begins to fold flat. This fits nicely into a regular A2 envelope!

To create the landscape mechanism, simply cut your card base to 4.25″ x 11″.
Cut one W mechanism to 1″ x 11″.

Hope you will give this a try - it really is easy, and makes such a fun card!

Thanks for stopping by today!

~ Patti J.

For this week only (July 15-21, 2019), get 20% Off the stamps used in Patti’s creations above when you use the coupon code POTW71519