Spring swing- Lili of the valley (Photo wallet / gift wallet)

Hello again, Sorry I didn't get this post up at the weekend as I had intended. But its better late than never.

So now for something a little different to my usual posts.

This is something to for you to make your self's

this is what we are making.

Its a either a little photo  wallet or its just the right size to add the gift cards (credit card size)

So lets get started.

You will need a sheet of 12x12 paper cut down to 10½ inches by 10½ . I chose one that had a design on both sides as when its all folded you will see both sides of the paper.

Then I folded this down the middle

(image above)

After you have folded this down the middle then open it out and take each side and fold again towards the centre fold

 BUT  DON'T FOLD EXACTLY TO THE CENTRE LINE

 leave 1 to 2 mm off the centre line. for both side flap folds.

(See picture below)

Now open your paper out and it should look like this.

Right next we need to add some more folds

So all I have done here is taken each corner and folded it over till it meets the line we folded before.

If your paper looks like this we are doing well.

next bit

All I have done now is left corners we have just folded, and folded the two side in to the centre fold.

Now what you need to do is flip it over

as we are going to make some folds on this side now.

So now we want to fold the top section down

(see picture below)

How far down do you fold it I hear you shout.

Just till you see the start of the straight middle fold we have.

(See below image)

Now for the more difficult bit.

So  your top section is folded like above image right.

Now you want to bring up the bottom section up

and tuck the top section in to the bottom section

It will slide in  make sure you push it all the way in till it wont go any further.

don't crease it till its fully tucked in.

Once that its pushed in fully you can press it down flat to create your crease

So this is what you should end up with.... if it don't look like this oppps

you have gone wrong somewhere.

So now you have your little photo gift wallet. It has room for a few photos and sentiments cards

Right now its ready to add your touches

So I added cards to fit in each side of the pockets

You could add sentiments to these cards or use them as photo mats.

For the front I added a stamp from Lili of the valley- Spring Swing  added some seam binding ribbon to make a closure for the little wallet

I coloured the stamped image with my usual

Copic markers and Polychromos Artists Pencils

Rabbit: W0, W1, W3,W5 Pencils used warm grey III 272

Warm Grey IV 272, Cold grey III 232

inside his ear and nose R000

bunny tail C0

ribbon on swing : B000, B00

Oak leaves: G99,G94,G85.

Swing seat and branch: pencils Bistre 179, walnut brown 177

So that's it for today's post ... phewww that was a long one with picture overload.

hope you liked today's post.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please feel free to leave comment or ask questions about the cards I make. All comments are truly appreciated.

bYe ByE

for now

Klare

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x

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