Slide and Lock Fun Fold Card

Hello crafty friends! This month’s challenge in our NZ Swap group came from my friend Suna, and it was a fun one: the Slide and Lock fun fold.

Suna was inspired by fellow New Zealand crafter Jacque Williams, who shares a great tutorial on the technique. You can watch her YouTube video here. Her instructions are easy to follow, and the card was a joy to make.

At its heart, this card is a tri fold with a clever slide and lock closure. Jacque made hers in landscape, but I decided to give mine a portrait twist.

I started with some purple patterned paper from my stash and an embossed panel made with the Gina K Tapestry embossing folder. I made one side of the fun fold smaller than the other, and put the tapestry embossing on the larger side.

For the closure, I die cut a white circle and a smaller circle from the patterned paper. I then added a die cut gold leaf and a sentiment from an LDRS stamp set, cut out with the matching die set.

I used some of the patterned paper to line the envelope I made, so the card and envelope go together nicely.

Thanks for stopping by and thank you to Suna for a fun challenge.