Pleat and Repleat

Remember pleated skirts and pleated shirts?  This pleat fold card is a perfect memory maker and so easy to do.  We pulled out a really pretty piece of our brand new pack of English Garden Designer Series Paper, cut a 4" x 11 1/2" piece, scored, cut an angle, and folded.  That's it! 

Crazy Pleated Card

  

Our Scoring Tool is the secret to straight and perfectly spaced pleats.  We placed our DSP with the 11 1/2" edge at the top and carefully scored at 3", 4", 6", 7", 9", and 10".  To make the angle on the card, we used our Paper Trimmer, beginning at the three inch score and cut at an angle up to the top at about an inch from the edge.  The steeper the angle the more of the reverse side of this pretty paper shows.  A little bit of folding and that's all there is too it!  Using a little double sided tape to hold the pleats in place beats all those little stick pins we had to use when we were sewing our skirts back in the 50's!  You can fashion a little bit of ribbon over the pleats (we used Mossy Meadow 3/8" Striped Satin) and donning a few flowers on the front makes this a stunning card.  Our simple Mossy Meadow Inked greeting in the corner came from Friendly Phrases (retired) and the leaves (stamped off twice) are from Crazy About You.  Very appropriate, since we are crazy about this card!

All papers, inks, and accessories used in this card are from ©Stampin’ Up!