Purse Card with Fancy Fold Insert Tutorial

Purse Card

Most of the cards I make are for my daughter's friends and this Pink card is I bet you can guess for a little girl!

Purse Card

This flower was made by layering punched paper flowers and adding a plastic flower in the center. I used dark pink glitter gel pen to add a design to the flower petals.

Punch Flower

My Butterfly Tag has a 2 layers held with a brad which was originally grey in color painted with pearl pink acrylic . The tag is attached to the purse handle with a ribbon and button.

Butterfly Tag

The top layer of the butterfly tag slides up to reveal the sentiment.

Butterfly Tag

This is the inside of the purse with a fancy folded insert which is embossed with hearts.

Purse Card

The inside of the purse card has embossing,flowers, paper lace ,gems and butterflies!

Purse Card

I embossed the inner lining paper of the purse with hearts and flowers using a Jef embosser.

Purse Card

Purse Card

How to Make a Purse Card

There are many examples and templates of the purse card on the net.Templates are in a way easy and in some ways difficult to work with ,so here I will share how to make your Purse card without any tracing or printing of a template. It will measure and look just the way you want it!

• Take a sheet of paper and fold it leaving some over for the flap of your purse--size of the flap depends on you!

  

  Purse Card Tutorial

• Measure equal distances from the ends of the top edge and drop a line to the lower corners.Cut through both layers of the folded card.
• Make the top flap in whatever shape you want.I used a compass to make a simple semicircle flap for this purse card.
• You can finish off your card at this stage or if you are like me and love to dress up the inside of a card- lets make a fancy fold card insert.

For this purse card I cut the pale pink paper some millimeters smaller than the card base and layered a smaller glittered foam sheet over it to create a party purse!

How to make the inside of a Fancy Folded Card Insert
This is called by various names including explosion fold at many sites on the net .Its a very useful mechanism to know as its so easy and can quickly transform the inside of your card !
Take a square of size 2 times the size of  the Insert you want .I measured the width near the top of my purse card and doubled this for my square size
Fold diagonally as shown.

Fancy Fold Card Insert Tutorial

Push the points marked by the boxing gloves to wards each other.
This will give you a triangular folded shape as shown

Fancy Fold Card Insert Tutorial

Fold the corners of each flap towards the center as shown

Fancy Fold Card Insert Tutorial

Tuck in all 4 folded corner flaps  as shown

Fancy Fold Card Insert Tutorial

Your insert is ready.
I embossed the insert after folding to get my positions right. Since I don't have an embossing machine here is what I did to emboss a large heart.Place the shape you want to emboss [ mine is a cardboard heart] below the paper and gently trace its outline with a smooth flat tool! Your paper should be sturdy otherwise it will tear.

Embossing by hand

Once you have embellished your card insert, apply glue on the 5 sided area as shown and stick on one half of your card with the pointed tip touching the central fold of the card.Apply glue on the other side and firmly close your card.

Fancy Fold Card Insert Tutorial

How to make a Lacy Scallop Border without a Scallop punch!
If you are like me and long to make those beautiful scallops yet don't own a scallop punch - lets improvise!
All you need a scallop scissors and a single hole punch.

Scallop Tutorial

Cut the strip of paper and punch holes. Glue the strip to your card paper and you have a lacy scalloped border!

Lacy Scallop Tutorial

Lacy Scallop Tutorial

This is the closeup of the quilled flower with a pink foam and glitter foam sheet center

Quilled Flower

I layered 2 punched butterflies and added flower stamens for the antennae.

Punched Butterflies

I hope the outcome is OK as this Pink Card  will be for my daughters dearest best friend who loves Pink!Do leave me your comments!

Purse Card