How to fold your Cardblanks.You can purchase ready folded cardblanks, and they come in lots of different colours, patterns, shapes and sizes, but it's cheaper to fold your own.
You won't get many in a pack of shop bought ones.
So think about D-I-Y because the cheapest way is to fold your own. Buy your supplies from the factory shops and get about 70 sheets in a box for about £5. You can create some interesting shapes quite easily, to ring the changes, each time you have a creative session.
Some may need to be measured out first but once you have the hang of it, you will enjoy the process.
Pictured are some of the shapes you will be able to create.
If you haven't got many pieces of
Take your piece of card, a pencil and a metal ruler.
I am using an A4 card.(21 x 29.5cms) (8 1/4 x 11 3/4")approx.
Lay it flat on your cutting mat and measure to the centre of the card.
(On an A4 card this will be about 15cms.)
Leave a feint pencil mark at the top and bottom of the cardblank.
Now you can either run the spoon handle, the point of the bone folder, or an embossing ball tool to score the card. (Tip...keep an empty ball point pen and use it as your embossing tool, it will leave an indent in the card for you to fold along, you don't need to press to hard.)
Fold it along this indent...
...then using either the back of a clean spoon, or the flat side of the bone folder, press along the spine to give a smooth, professional crease.
It is worth investing in a bone folder, they aren't expensive.
Just folding the card in half, without scoring first, will give you a very untidy edge to your card. Not pretty!!
Take a look at the "Easy Cardmaking Projects" section for lots more ideas on folding your cardblanks.
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So let's start with the basics first...
Lay the metal ruler along the centre, to join these two marks.
This will produce a really good fold in the cardblank, ready for you to embellish in any way you want to.
