Iris Folding with Ribbon

You Will Need:

How to Make Your Card

Print out the baby buggy pattern from the iris folding download. Cut the cryogen white card into two A5 sheets. Trace the outline of the buggy onto the white card and cut it out with your craft knife.

Place the aperture over the pattern. Cut two strips of masking tape and stick it to your clothing and pull it off a few times to reduce the stickiness. Secure the card to the pattern with the masking tape.

Stick some lengths of sticky tape along one side of your craft matt. Cut the tape into strips approximately 1cm wide. Hold a length of ribbon against the area marked 1 on the pattern. Cut the strip to length so that the ends overlap the edges of the area. Stick the ribbon in place using sticky tape. Use a craft knife to lift off a piece of tape from the craft matt and use it to stick the ribbon in place. Repeat this for the area marked 2. Continue in the same way, covering each area in order.

Once the iris folding is finished stick a small square of shimmer paper over the hole in the centre, known as the iris. Remove the aperture from the pattern.

Trim your aperture panel to 12cm x 13cm. Run the edges across a silver ink pad. Cut the second piece of A5 cryogen white card to 19cm x 14cm and ink the edges. Stick a length of left over ribbon around the bottom of this card as shown. Make a bow from the ribbon and stick this to the card. Stick the panels to your card as shown.

Add a greeting to your card to complete it.

Download a printer friendly copy of this project.

You will need a copy of Acrobat Reader to open the file. If you do not already have a copy you can download one from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

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