Z-fold Thinking of You

by Kathy Berger

This card is very quick to make but looks special because of its fold-back panel. I hope you'll give it a try.

Z-fold Thinking of You

Materials

• Paper
• Bazzill Basics "Places We Love" 5-color packs, Martha's Vineyard, Apple Sauce     ( BB-PWL-Martha   $11.99)
• White card stock
• Inks
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad     ( TSU-VFP-Blk   $8.99)
• Versamark Pad     ( TSU-VMPAD   $8.09)
• Stamps
• Martha Stewart Clear Stamp, Birds     ( MSC-CS-331031   $12.99)
• Inkadinkado Large Clear Stamps, Expressions     ( INK-CSL-97608   $9.99)
• Embellishments
• White Organza Ribbon, 1/4" width, 12 inches     ( CR-ORG4-Wht   $0.30/yard)
• Adhesive mesh joint tape from the hardware store (used for sheetrock seams)
• Adhesives
• ATG-714 Double Sided Adhesive Tape Gun for 1/4" tape     ( ATG-714   $59.99)
• Double Sided Refill for ATG-714     ( 1/4" x 36 yd   $5.95)
• Glue Dots Mini Size, 300 dots, 3/16" dia     ( GLUE-Mini   $3.99)
• Tools
• Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper - Deco     ( WRM-CAD-CRNR3   $24.99)
• The Scor-pal     ( Scor-pal   $39.99)
• Miscellaneous
• About a dozen 2" rubber bands
• Coloring tools of choice (I used colored pencils and GooGone™)

Instructions

• Cut the cardstock.
• Applesauce cardstock:
        one piece 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
        two pieces each 3 1/2" x 2 3/4".
• White cardstock:
        two pieces each 3" x 2 1/4"
• Corner chomp the small rectangles of the applesauce and the white cardstock using the STUB side of the chomper.
• Using the Versafine pad, stamp the bird on one of the white rectangles, and the "Thinking of you" on the other. Color as desired.
• Mount the white panels onto the applesauce panels. Set aside.




• Using the Scor-pal score the applesauce card in the landscape orientation at 2 1/8" and at 4 1/4".
• Mountain fold the card at the 2 1/8" score line, and Valley fold at the 4 1/4" score.
• Use one of the rubber bands to bind the other bands into a clump. Use scissors to trim the loops off one end of the bands.
  (My daughter named the resulting tool a "Splongee" when she was 3 and it stuck.)




• Tap the ends of the "Splongee" onto the Versamark pad and stamp onto the front folded-back part of the card only. Repeat to randomly cover that part of the card.
  This will add a subtle "texture" to the folded panel.
• Cut a strip of the seam tape to about 1" wide, 5 1/2" long. Apply to the the part of the inside of the card that is visible from the front.




• Affix the panel that has the saying stamped on it to the inside of the card.
• Apply glue tape to the back of the left half of the panel with the bird stamped on it (WARNING: this will be the RIGHT side of the panel when it is face down!)
• Affix the bird panel to the front folded-back part of the card, taking care to align the panel so it completely covers the saying panel on the inside of the card.




• Add a bow tied out of the organdy ribbon to the lower right of the card.

Thanks for coming by. See you next time!

Kathy

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