Tri-Shutter Tutorial aka Accordion Card

Hiya, Crafters! Happy Friday!! I hope the week treated everyone well. I am looking forward to the weekend. I've been working on my first commissioned request and I am so thrilled that I am nearly finished. All that's left to do is fold and glue the envelopes! I'm pretty proud of myself so I'm going to treat myself, and get them glue to seal the envelopes, at the craft store with my 50% off coupons that have been burning a hole in my pocket. Yay! Anyway, I wanted to give my customer a card; on top of all the cards that she requested, to say congratulations!! You can find this type of card all over pinterest and I can't remember the original one that I used. But for today's card I specifically wanted 4" panels and came up with these measurements.

Here's what you'll need to make this card:

• Cardstock cut to 12 x 6" for your base. 
• Coordinating cardstock.
• Trimmer
• Scoring tool
• Stamping and die cutting tools needed to finish the card.

Let's get started! Take your base card with the 6" edge against the top (or bottom) of your trimmer and line it up at 5", You'll see that I flipped my trimmer upside down so I could see what it was that I was doing. Then line your cutting blade up at the 2" mark and cut to 10". Rotate your card 180 degrees and repeat.

Rotate your cardstock longways and line it up at 10", you'll only want to score the 1" from your cut line to the edge of the card. Do this on both sides. Then score through the entire card at 8" and 4". Lastly, line it up at 2" and repeat the score lines as you did with 10". (Score lines are hard to photograph.) Once you've completed that mountain fold the middle panels and then the top and bottom 1" panels. Be sure that the top and bottom do not mirror the middle panels. You'll have something that looks like this:

All that's left is to decorate! Here are the measurements that I used for the middle panels. Remember they are 4 x 4" to start with.

• Bottom layer: 3 3/4 x 3 3/4"
• Middle layer: 3 5/8 x 3 5/8"
• Top layer: 3 1/2 x 3 1/2"

I only used the top layer to give myself writing space. I also did not measure out the top and bottom panels because I used patterned paper and didn't see the need, but they are 1 x 4". Here's what I came up with:

I used versamark and white embossing powder on the dress.  Then I added a pearl to the center waist and also made a frame. I really like how that stands out!

For the cake, I used clear embossing powder this time to make it a couple shades darker than the paper and placed pearls inside the flowers. This is what it looks like folded flat:

I did my best to mimic their wedding colors. Sage is in, friends. I might come back to it and add more bling, I do not know. The patterned paper is pretty busy and I don't want too much going on all at once. So I'm going to go shopping, then come back and look at it and see if I think I did enough.

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial and that you find some inspiration in it! Thanks for popping by, Crafters! I'll see ya on Monday!