Experimenting with paper folds on cards

Sometimes you just have to play & play with paper to see what you can make out of it. This is what I did with this card.

I basically had an idea, but didn't know if it would actually work IRL. So there was nothing else to do than test it. And test I did indeed.

In the third go I finally got the result I was looking for and here it is.....

The white paper (a little thicker than normal printer paper) has been folded repeatedly. I scored the paper at 1 inch and ½ inch and then again at 1 inch and ½ inch.

Then I folded the paper and kept it folded by using repositionable tape on the back side. This made is possible to stamp with the background stamp.

After stamping the background I ran the paper through the Big Shot with the letter dies for "HEY". I found out that you have to be careful where you place the letter dies on the folds. Especially the "E" can be tricky. 

As a last little touch I added 3D squares in all the folds to make sure they wouldn't flat out.

To each side of the folded paper piece I adhered stripes of coloured card stock. I also adhered pieces of coloured card stock on the back behind every die-cut letter.

Then I adhered the whole thing to the card base. The last little touch of the card is the talk bubble where I have heat embossed the sentiment.

Supplies used:

Vivi Gade "Grey" Card Stock	Score Board Martha Stewart	Scotch tape removable	Hero Arts "Alphabet Pattern" cling stamp	Hero Arts "Soft Granite" Shadow Ink	Panduro "Spring Colours" Card Stock Stack
Spellbinders "Plain Jane Capital" Font die	Sizzix Big Shot	Simon Says "Talking about You 2" Stamp & Die	EK Success "Powder Tool"	VersaMark Watermark/Embossing ink pad	American Crafts "Opaque White" ZING embossing powder
Panduro Heat Gun	Double sided tape 3mm (6x50m)	3D Adhesive Squares 2mm	Martha Stewart Paper Trimmer

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