This card/mini album turned out to be a real challenge! I have been making prototypes of cards that can hold pockets lately, when I came across this so-called Folio Book Card. It is originally made with four panels, however, since I needed something to hold 6 pockets, I was in need of 6 panels. So what I ended up doing was adding two extra panels to the mixedupcraft.com tutorial I followed.
Then I started making a series of mistakes😔. I chose to make my card base to be gold folio card stock, instead of just using it as a layer. I quickly found out that finding an adhesive that would stick quickly and well, would be a real challenge. My wet glues wouldn't stick!
My second mistake was putting on my patterned paper as the first card layer. I tried using red tape instead of wet glue to stick it down, but wasn't able to control the process of lining it up well enough, and everything became crooked!😡 So, I ripped off my first layer and decided to put a different first layer underneath my pattern paper. I chose a few colors that complimented my pattern paper, and slowly, but surely my panels were coming together.
The third mistake I made was when attaching the layers to my panels. I had decided that I would have three panels with pattern paper, and three on which I just used plain colored paper, decorated with cut out flowers from my pattern paper. I would also gold heat emboss sentiments on small panels and adhere them to the plain colored panels. However, when I glued the panels on, intending to have every other pattern paper panel, plain color panel, I was not attentive enough when I attached them, and ended up with two plain colored panels following each other. Oh well, it could have been worse I guess!🤷
When I folded the card up after finishing all the panels, I found that the joint adjoining the first and the second panel was a tad bit too short to enclose the whole card, and therein laid my last mistake when making this card. So, I cut the joint in the middle and glued in an extra piece, and the card wrapped up perfectly!
Even though this turned out to be a card that caused me a buck load of problems, it turned into a card I am very pleased with.
I added some ribbon on the first panel, as well as on the panel that will end up last when folded in.
The front of the card looks almost like the cover of a book when everything is folded into place!
I left space to write on, on the panel that faces the back of the card.
The Box
You might have been able to make an envelope to fit this card, but I find the box that Mixed Up Crafts Sam Calcott made to go with it, a perfect match for this card. Although, since I made the card six panels instead of just four, I ended up making the box a bit bigger.
I dont know for sure, however, this might possibly be a card that I will make again.😁 And if I do, let´s hope I have learnt from my mistakes!😂
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