Learn how to make this Hand Penned Petals Mirror Fold card with the video tutorial and PDF shared in today's cardmaking blog post.

I came across this awesome graphic on Pinterest and I thought I would post it here for you .. I thought you might be looking for some new and exciting ways to fold and create cards like I am! I was thinking what I will do is start creating a card with one of each of these designs as soon as I am done stamping all my Stampin' Up! Convention swap cards... so watch for samples on my blog using these great fold ideas in the coming weeks! Which one will YOU try? Shop Online Anytime and Earn

We all love pretty papers right? You wouldn't be a papercrafter without it. Well take a look at this very pretty Flight & Airy Desig...

A simple fun fold card full of creative ideas and possibilities! This card video is loaded with tips & tricks for making this unique card fold. Learn more

Stadium Wave Fun Fold Card Video. We made this amazing fun fold card in the Glitter Pit yesterday A big thank you goes out to Ana Mendez for posting her video on our team page on how to make this

Fold-over seashells - fun as cards or gift tags. These seashell notecards are fun and easy to make. You can use them as bon voyage cards, gift tags, or just to write summery messages on. String them on some raffia to make a bunting for a patio party. Make them on a rainy day - and think sun and surf. Here's the pattern: To make: trace the pattern, cut them out. The larger shells have a "V" to cut at the top fold - use a craft knife over a cutting mat. Of course, it makes sense to pencil the radiating lines on the wrong side of the seashell. Now: make an impression. Place the card on a mouse mat or sponge flower-shaping mat. Emboss the lines using an embossing tool and a small metal ruler. The cards look fine unadorned, especially if made in pretty pearlescent paper. But for a crafty finishing touch, you can draw the ridges (I used Tim Holtz Distress markers in light colours) and sponge the edges (Distress Inks applied with Tsukineko Sponge Daubers). For the full monty, embellish with the starfish (use a sticky square for lift) and seaweed cut-outs applied with tacky glue.

Card Making Techniques Vol 14 is packed with 5 paper craft techniques you will find fun to use. Works great for other paper craft projects too

As more and more research comes out about the power of Growth Mindset and more and more people are leaning towards this line of thinking (heck, even my District is getting on board...they talked about it at a training I went to over the summer!), I figured that this would be as good a time as any to teach my students about their own brains and mindset. So I began my first week of school with a few lessons that really set a great tone for my students. To begin, I wanted something tangible and hands-on for my students to experience. So I searched online and found this lesson here. In a nutshell, I folded some paper in a crazy figure (that didn't actually look all crazy...until I tried to make it...go to the blog for exact instructions) and told the students they needed to recreate it. I had them get into groups of 7-8 students, put the figure in the middle and gave them each the exact same piece of paper I used. There were only two rules: They could not touch the folded paper and they could not have a second piece of paper. Most of the students got right to it. As they were working, I walked around with a clipboard and wrote down everything that I was hearing in the groups. At the beginning, I heard things like: This is easy. Look, we just fold it this way and then that. Let me get my scissors and we can all just cut it. Hmmm....I wonder how she did that. Can you just show me what you are doing? Then, as time went on and recreating the folded paper wasn't as easy as they thought, the narrative started to change. I started to hear: Wait, what? This isn't going to work. I can't get this. What did you do? Seriously, she had to use tape. How did she get that part? Let's only do one paper at a time in case we make a mistake. This was also the time when I started to see some kids just sit back and watch. They stopped trying altogether and just let everyone else experiment. I also noticed some kids taking charge completely and not letting others have opinions. Then, towards the end, I heard: This is impossible. I give up. I just can't do this. What on earth did she do? She used magic. After about 10 minutes of working, I called them all together again (no one was able to fold it correctly), I showed the students what they said. It was a bit eye-opening for them to see that some just quit so early on or that they declared the task impossible. Clearly it wasn't, as I had just folded the paper. They just wanted me to tell them the answer. This then lead into a nice discussion about the basic principles of growth mindset. That you have to keep going and trying. That your brain was meant to learn. So I passed out a quiz that I got from Angela Watson of the Cornerstone for Teachers. (she has a whole Growth Mindset pack that is really useful) They took the quiz, which asks questions about whether students think they can learn and grow or if they were just born that way. Then, we watched a video that Angela links from the Khan Academy about the fact that our brains were born to learn. We wrote down many ideas from the video, the biggest being that failure = growing. That REALLY stuck with them. I then asked the students to write down all of the words they could think of that pertained to their idea of what it means that "you were born to learn." The more important words, in their opinion, were to be larger than the less important words. Effectively, they were making a free form word cloud. I then took their picture as if they were screwing in a lightbulb, glued it onto the word cloud they created, and using tissue paper, they formed a "lightbulb" above their hand. All in all, this was a fabulous way to introduce the idea of growth mindset to my students. This entire process took two days to complete, but it was well worth it. The students continue to make connections to that first video from Khan Academy and refer to the idea of "failure = growing" still. I am also finding that there is just a much more positive tone in class because of it. I can't wait to continue on with future lessons. Have you delved into growth mindset? What are your experiences?

Make A Double Flap Fun Fold Card for Anniversary or Thank You Cards with Lisa Curcio of Lisa's Stamp Studio in this YouTube Card Making Class!

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Here are 3 card ideas to use up your leftover paper scraps. In this video I show you how to make each card along with some other helpful tips.

Iris Folding-Instructions and Video Tutorial Learn all about Iris Folding with ideas, patterns, and video how-to!

Learn how to make a frog folding surprise craft! Surprise friends and family with this craft. Free printable template included you can color.

Once you have cut out the aperture of your pattern, either by hand or with a Cricut, it's time to let the folding begin! 1) Secure the pattern Place the iris folding pattern on your

A Free Braided Card Template and a Video Tutorial Demonstration from Brandy Cox. She shows several example cards of this simple but so impressive technique

Not really a fan of the iris-folding, but I did this for a commission. The folded pieces are all torn from old magazines and catalogues and I quite like the mish-mashy way they go together.

Another 2023 wrap up! Here are the 10 most watched Fun Fold card projects from my YouTube channel. Did your favorite made it to the list? Find out below! Never Ending Card Have you made a never ending card before? This is a great fun fold to teach the kids in your life. (They will figure it our more quickly than you do!) Click here to go to the blog post. Fun Fold with 6 x 6 Paper Use your 6x6 papers to create this easy fun fold - you can pull the flap open to reveal a

Surprises are good, especially when they happen in art. This folded paper project is nothing short of hilarious.

Celebrate their big day with this colourful crocodile children's birthday card. Designed with a bright and bold fold-out crocodile sure to make anyone smile. Dimensions: Unfolded: 16" x 4.3

Related Printables: Frog Eating Fly Surprise Folding Paper Surprise Folding Paper – Shark Happy Mother’s Day Surprise Folding Craft Brush My Teeth – Surprise Folding Paper

This fractured card, or faux shutter card as it is sometimes called, looks complicated but it really easy if you do it the way we are showing here. This truck

Mountain sunrise greeting card sets - folded notecards featuring beautiful mountain landscape art on eco-friendly luxury felt paper. Thoughtful gift for nature lovers.

Related Printables: Frog Eating Fly Surprise Folding Paper Surprise Folding Paper – Shark Happy Mother’s Day Surprise Folding Craft Brush My Teeth – Surprise Folding Paper

Hi everyone, thank you for visiting today. I designed this fun Hexagon Pop-Up card with a hidden spring recently. This easy card style requires no specialty dies and is very easy to make. This fold…

Once you have cut out the aperture of your pattern, either by hand or with a Cricut, it's time to let the folding begin! 1) Secure the pattern Place the iris folding pattern on your

We love 3D paper art at our house and this 3D paper lizard is a fun and artsy craft for kids. The easy lizard template is included and with some brightly colored card stock paper, you’ll have an adorable paper reptile that can be used as a fun gift tag. If you like working with…

As we bid farewell to 2023, let's take a look at some of the most popular card making projects we featured this year. It's been a year filled with ideas,

SPRINGY THINGY CARD TUTORIAL It's time for me to share my weekly Tuesday tip or technique. This tutorial fell out of my tips/techniques book as I moved it last night and so got chosen for today's effort. It makes a card front that the receiver pulls open and the card opens out like a spring to see an inner 20cm square area. Images of a completed card using this technique are below these instructions. Practice this on some scrap paper first. MATERIALS 20cm square piece of card stock or decorative paper of your choice. Pre colour the card if you wish. I'll use white card stock so you can clearly see what to do. Pencil, rubber, ruler, craft knife, craft mat and bone scorer. HOW TOO 1) On all sides measure and make a light pencil dot at the 5cm, 10cm and 15cm mark. On my sample I will use a black marker so you can see what I did easily. 2) From the 5cm mark at the left and right side measure and mark a dot at the 10cm mark 3) From the 10cm mark at the left and right side measure in and mark a dot in at the 5cm mark from each side 4) From the 15cm mark at the left and right side measure and mark a dot at the 10cm mark. These dots make a large diamond. 5) Score between all these dots. In my image I have drawn dashes to show you were to score 6) At the top 15cm mark score down to the right side of the diamond. At the 15cm mark at right edge, score across to the bottom of the diamond. At the 5cm mark on the bottom edge, score up to the left side of the diamond. Lastly at the 5cm mark at the left edge, score across to the top of the diamond. See dashed marks I have marked for you on my sample. All these score lines will be mountain folds. That is you bend the scored line back on itself to make a mountain. 7) At the 10cm mark on all sides score into the points on the diamond. See dashed areas on my sample. These scored lines and the scored lines for the diamond are all valley folds. That is you bend the scored line in on itself to make a little valley. Here is my sample with all the scored lines bent to their respective mountain and valley folds. 8) Now all you do is gently fold the card in on itself. Start on one side and then work your way around. If you have all the scored correct lines and folds it sort of winds in like a spring. It should look like this at the front and this at the back. Rub off all marked pencil dots. After I made my sample above for you I painted the card stock with white gesso, sprayed it with various sprays. Stamped and added embellishments to turn it into a steam punk card. I then layered and stuck it to a base card. As mine is fairly embellished it doesn't fold completely flat. This is m Springy Thingy Card open Some close ups of the folded card part. Hugs Annette In Oz

This Stadium Wave Pop-Up Card was an exclusive tutorial for my email newsletter subscribers in December 2023. This project has become popular

Here is my tutorial for a folding card wallet, great for your business cards, or credit cards

Create an adorable set of paper cats. There are 7 different cats to make either in full colour or colour-your-own. Some of the cats are based on pure breeds, others are cute, mixed-breed "just cats".  This papercraft is super simple, involving basic cutting, folding and gluing skills. It's been designed for ages 6 and up (but older kids will love it too). Light card stock to print on is recommended for sturdiness.  This digital download product includes: - Printable instructions with photos - 7 cat templates in full colour - 7 colour-your-own cat templates - the file saved as a PDF in US Letter format

Here's a new fancy fold card to try out. It's called a Twist Fold card and it uses the Cool Treats Suite of products by Stampin' Up!

Join me for today's Folio Flip Album Tutorial where I share how I created this cute Folio with Recollections card stock and Colorbox paper.

I don't think I've shared these two book folding items that I made eons ago, A bird house and a vase with tulips.

Surprises are good, especially when they happen in art. This folded paper project is nothing short of hilarious.