Layered Cube Fold Card

Hello everyone, hope you all are doing well! Happy Valentine's day from a very single person, who sat home and made envelopes today!

Sometimes I browse Pinterest for a fun projects to try, few days back I came across two cards I wanted to try, one of them was this layered cube fold card.

This particular card caught my eye, and I really wanted to try making it (picture is linked back to the owner). So, I searched Youtube for the tutorials and came across the tutorial by Jo Blackman, following which I made my own.

This is the back side of the card. Although matting is my favorite technique, this card required so much matting  that it drained me completely! That's double matting on all outer panels and single matting on the inner sides.

Here's what it looks like when you flatten the card. I layered 4 of the flower branch die cuts to create a sturdy die cut, since I didn't have really heavy paper which would stand without bending.  I covered the die cut in gesso ( Yes, I don't even know why I did that ). The rest of the decors are pretty simple die cuts, and the hearts on the bottom are raised with foam tape.

I used Illustrator to edit the sentiments onto the digital paper to print, the fonts are all from Font bundles, the paper is from Free Pretty Things For You - Free Farmhouse Floral Christmas.

So, in the video Jo mentioned we could add a lock for the closed card by tying a ribbon around it from the inside of the bottom cubes. I took it a step further and added in a message panel with attached ribbon to put inside the bottom cubes, when they fold to close.

Here's the front of the message panel, I couldn't find a good sentiment and had a copy of the main one, so I decided to role with matching sentiments with the card.

Here's how the ribbon attached to the message panel comes around and closes on the card.

Finally the envelope, as usual I messed up by taking 0.5 inch less extra on the top, so I had to cut it out and attach a seperate panel, hence the decoration inside ( I guess it was meant to be, since the envelope now looks a lot better).

I absolutely loved decorating the envelope, because I was almost at the end of completing what I had started. I usually can't rest unless I complete my cards. This took two days to finish and was really stressful too because I'm having trouble concentrating on something nowadays.

Here's the video for a better look:

Thank you for reading through till the end, hope you'll have a great day ahead.

Love,

Foo💜