Honey Bee Concertina Card

Last week, I showed you how to take a basic layout for a simple card & how to step it up to make it pop! I promised you a card with 'Wow' factor, so here it is! I wasn't sure what to call the fold, but I've seen it called a concertina card (I think the first one I saw was on a You Tube video by Liz Yuille of Old Stables Crafts) and I know that the granddaughter of the first person to receive one of these from me, loved opening & closing it, so I think Concertina is appropriate!

The front panel of the card is assembled in the same way as the front panel of my final card on last week's post, although, the pieces of card are slightly different sizes. I decorated the concertina part of the card with some Golden Honey DSP, layered on to Basic Black Card. And finished the card off with a greeting from the Peaceful Moments Stamp set, and a couple of flowers from the Honey Bee Stamp Set, stamped on Whisper White card & layered on Basic Black before attaching to my Crushed Curry card base.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by

Jane x

Concertina Card Instructions

For the Card Base use Crushed Curry Cardstock taken from the 12" x 12" Regals Pack and follow the Imperial Measurements. OR if you only have A4, then use Crushed Curry A4 & follow the metric measurements (my apologies for the metric measurements not being nice round numbers!)

Cut your card base to  6" x 12" (14.85 x 29.7 cm)

On the short side, cut from 2" to 10", at 2" & 4".
For the metric version, the easiest way is to draw horizontal pencil lines at 4.95cm from each end. Then use these pencil lines as your guide for cutting from one pencil line to the other at 4.95 & 9.9.

Turn to the long side & score at 4" & 8" (9.9 & 19.8 cm)
  and, to the first cut line only at 2" & 10" (4.95 & 24.75cm) turn through 180° and repeat

You then need to fold & burnish your score lines. Starting each row with a mountain fold, fold by a valley fold. then mountain & finally valley (NB middle row only has 1 mountain & 1 valley)

To decorate the front section (left hand end of diagram) use a panel of DSP 1 5/8" wide x 5 5/8" tall (4 x 14cm) matted onto a basic black layer 1 3/4" x 5 3/4" (4.3 x 14.3cm). Adhere this to Section 1

Use the same measurements to cut a whisper white panel & black mat for the greeting (right hand end of diagram). Stamp the greeting centrally, and the flower in the top left & bottom right of the whisper white piece. Attach to the black mat and adhere in section 2

Cut 5 pieces of DSP measuring 1 5/8" x 1 5/8" (4 x 4cm) and mat these onto black card measuring 1 3/4" x 1 3/4" (4.3 x 4.3cm). Adhere to sections 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7

Cut 3 pieces of DSP measuring 1 5/8" tall  x 3 5/8" wide (4 x 9cm) and mat these onto Black card measuring 1 3/4" x 3 3/4" (4.3 X 9.3cm) Adhere these to sections 8, 9 & 10

For the Front panel, you will need a whisper white piece, measuring 3 1/8" x 4 5/8" (8 x 12 cm),
                                                                      a black layer  measuring 3 1/4" x 4 3/4" (8.3 x 12.3cm),  
                                                               and a Crushed Curry layer.    3 1/2" x 5".      (9 x 13cm)

Assemble the front panel in the same way as the front of last weeks card, and attach it to section 12 (NB it will overlap Section 1, and should line up horizontally on the right of the card, and central vertically)