Napkin Fold Card

Hiya, Crafters! Today I am going to show you one of my favorite cards to make, the napkin fold card. I really enjoy these types of folding cards, they come out so neat and whoever you give them will love it. They're always a hit. I found this tutorial a couple of years ago by Dawn Griffith. She's a lot of fun to watch and easy to follow. I go to her for a lot of inspiration.

Materials needed:

• (2) 12 x 12" cardstock, one for your base, and the other for the triangles.
• Paper trimmer
• Scoring board
• Bone folder
• Sponges (optional)
• Stamping and embossing tools.

For the Belly Band:

• 2 x 12" piece of cardstock
• 1 3/4 x 12" piece of cardstock.
• Velcro dots or 3D foam
• A greeting to close the gap

For the envelope:

• 10 x 10" paper
• Envelope punch board or scoring board with diagonal plate.

Let's get started! Take your base 12 x 12" piece of cardstock and score at 3" and 9". Rotate 180 degrees and score again at 3" and 9". Move your piece of paper to the 6" line and mark the center of your paper at 6".

Fold all sets of 3" and 9" score lines both ways. Take the corner point and fold to the dot that you made in the center of your paper. Do this on all corners and fold them all both ways.

 Fold in at the 3" and 9" score lines and fold the corner into a square. You will do this on all sides.

Once you have the squares, you will take that center point and fold it backwards.

 Now all that is left is to decorate! Take your other piece of 12 x 12" cardstock. I'm using the Stardust Stack from DCWV.  You will want to cut out a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2" square and cut that into four triangles. You will want to cut point to point, then cute again through the point to make it four.

Next I cut out two (2) 5 1/4 x 5 1/4" square and cut point to point, and then cut those in half to have a total of 8 triangles. Cut both pieces the same. You will have a total of 16 triangles.

The next two steps are completely optional. I sponged every score line in ink. Then I sponged the same color ink over the edges to cover the white cardstock.

For the center the measurements are 5 3/4 x 5 3/4" and the stacked layer is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2". Take your four large triangles and glue them on the large triangles on your base cardstock. Then do the same with the 16 smaller triangles. Embellish as you find necessary.

For the belly band I used the 2 x 12" cardstock and layered it with a coordinating color cut to 1 3/4 x 12". When you wrap it around your card, you will see the gap. To close the gap cut out a greeting. Here I used the Chalk Talk stamp set and dies. Once I centered it I glued it on to one side of the belly band. Now if you choose, you can adhere the side with glue or adhere both sides with the 3D foam stickers and shimmy the band over your card to keep it closed. I found that to be a pain in the butt so I used Velcro dots instead.

Voila! Aren't you fancy?
The card is 6 x 6" total. For the envelope you will want a piece of 10 x 10" cardstock. I know that the envelope punch board disagrees, but with the belly band you will want the extra space. If you don't have the envelope punch board, you can score this out on your scoring board with the diagonal plate. The score lines are 4 1/2", turn paper, 4 1/2" turn paper, 4 3/4" turn paper, and 4 3/4". Just cut out the little triangles to make folding easier and tape the paper together.

Thanks for reading! If you make one, please post a picture of it in the comments. I'd love to see what you make! See ya later, Crafters!