InspireINK Fancy Fold Blog Hop: Endless Card

Hi and welcome to the inspireINK blog hop. This month the theme is Fancy Fold Cards. I have used the FREE Sale-A-Bration Thinlit Dies for this card and the Eastern Palace suite. I love this suite and have neglected it recently.

There are many tutorials on YouTube for making an endless card, I have sized this one so it can me made using a sheet of A4. A lot of tutorials use 12x12 cardstock so I wanted to make one that used a standard piece of cardstock.

Measurements

Card base: 

• 2 x Dapper Denim cardstock 5"x5" 
• Score  both squares @ 1 1/4" from each end
• Cut squares in half so you have 4 rectangles 2 1/2" x 5" 

Mats

First face of card

• 2 x Eastern Palace DSP 1"x 2 1/4"
• 2 x Very Vanilla Cardstock 2 1/4" x 2 3/8"
• Scrap of Dapper Denim to cut the 'Celebrate' from

Second face of card

• 4 x Very Vanilla Cardstock 1"x1"
• 2 x Very Vanilla Cardstock 2 1/4" x 2 1/4"
• 2 x Eastern Palace DSP 1"x 2 1/4"
• Scrap of Dapper Denim to cut the Eastern Medallion 
• Scrap of Very Vanilla to cut the scallop circle using 1 1/8" Scallop Circle Punch 

Add caption

Third face of card

• 4 x Very Vanilla Cardstock 1"x1"
• 2 x Very Vanilla Cardstock 2 1/4" x 1 3/8"
• Scrap of Dapper Denim to cut the 'amazing' from

Forth face of card

• 2 x Very Vanilla Cardstock 2 1/4" x 2 1/4"
• 4 x Eastern Palace DSP 1"x 2 1/4"
• Scrap of Dapper Denim to cut the Eastern Medallion 
• Scrap of Very Vanilla to cut the scallop circle using 1 1/8" Scallop Circle Punch 
• Scrap of Dapper Denim to cut the 'YOU' from

Assembling the card

• This card can be made in different sizes as long as the width of each rectangle is half the size of the length e.g. 3" x 6" or 3 1/2" x 7" or  4"x 8" etc also remember to adjust the score line to be 1/4 of the length e.g. for 6" score @ 1 1/2", 8" score @ 2"
• Fold and burnish all score lines
• Lay rectangles in pairs next to each other but at right angles to each other
• The folds should be faced down on one pair and faced up with the other pair

• Put adhesive - I used Tombow - in each corner to the half way point
• I drew a line 1 1/4" along so I knew where to place the glue

• Stick the top rectangles to the bottom rectangles 
• Make sure they are flush at each corner

• Once stuck run the bone folder over the scored lines
• Fold out the centre flaps to form new square and again burnish with bone folder
• Fold out again to form another new shape (sort of cross) and again burnish with bone folder
• Fold out again to form new square - this is the last square, again burnish with bone folder
• Carry on folding out the card to loosen it and making sure it flips well
• if it catches at any point you may need to trip slightly 

Now decorate each face of the squares as shown in the pictures.

I have made a video tutorial so if you pop back to my blog tomorrow you will see the video tutorial linked here. 

I hope you liked this project and are enjoying the other fancy fold projects in the hop. Now please click on the next button below to see the next blog.

Thanks for joining me today

Gez x