Triangle Accordion Pocket Card

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog! Today I am sharing a birthday card I created recently, it's a new style to me ... a Triangle Accordion Pocket Card. I found this style of Facebook recently, someone was promoting a die to create this style. I went to check it out, but they didn't sell internationally. After looking a little closer I decided it was easy enough to figure out how to make and do it without a die, and of course then I could also make it a 5 x 7 card. The width is slightly less then 5 inches, but only about 1/8 inch.

To decorate the centre panel I used Spellbinders Heart Hands, which I have been wanting to play with for some time.



To create the card, I took a piece of A4 card, which I cut down to 7 inches along the short side. I placed the long side in my score board and scored down the centre. I then scored 1 inch either side of the score line. Next I took the front panel and cut diagonally from the to left side to the bottom right side. The piece that was removed becomes the pocket for the back panel.

I die cut the red filigree circle and white circle twice, one for the front and one for the back of the front circle. I added a birthday sentiment to the back circle using stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink's Big Birthday sentiments (although why the stamps are called big, I have no idea as the sentiments are mostly tiny lol!)

I almost forgot I had a pocket when I added the On the Line Birthday sentiment also from Papertrey Ink, but I remembered in time before the glue could stick to rescue this mistake. I die cut the sentiment 3 times to give it strength, especially the piece above the triangle panel.

I recently purchased some A4 paper pads from Iced Images on Amazon, which I used to decorate my card.

I added a small rectangle panel to add to the pocket. I decorated this with another filigree circle and a sentiment, as well as a rose from the paper pad.

Seeing the rectangle panel has two sides, I decided to add a white panel to the back with another sentiment. This is then a place for someone to write a personal message to the recipient of the card when it is time.