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Saturday 21 January 2012

How To... Make a Never Ending Card

Over the last month I have shared with you a couple of Never Ending Cards that I have made & I promised to create a How To...

So here is it... How to make a Never Ending Card.  First a quick recap for those who don't know what a Never Ending Card is.  All is explained (with pictures) on THIS Post.

The instructions to create the card base are very easy, however you do need to create the base BEFORE you decorate it.

My card when finished will be 14cm square.  The size you decide on is up to you as long as it is square & the length of any side can be divided by 4 it will work.

Cut 4 pieces of card 14cm x 7cm
Score each piece of card along the long edge at 3.5cm & 10.5cm; and along the short edge at 3.5cm - DO NOT fold the pieces yet (if you do it will make the next 3 steps very hard!!)
Place 2 pieces along side each other vertically - add glue to the 4 corners (I used Double Sided Sticky Tape)
Place another piece of card horizontally on top of the first 2 - Ensure that the outside edges are lined up.  Then add the remaining piece horizontally
Now you can start to fold the score lines until you are able to easily move to each side - See following pictures for more detail:
Fold outwards from the centre
Fold up/down from the centre
Fold outwards from the centre
Fold up/down from the centre

You are now back at the front again & you have completed one revolution of your Never Ending Card
Once your card is moving freely from one side to the next you can start to decorate each side as you wish.

Happy Card Making

12 comments:

  1. I love this card. I will give it a go.

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  2. Fab idea, thanks for sharing.
    C xx

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  3. great tutorial,thank you. sue xx

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  4. Willl have to try this one day! Lea xx

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  5. any chance of imperial measurements for those of us who are metric-ally challenged? lol

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  6. fab tutural thanks for sharing xx

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  7. Thanks for the tutorial may have to try this.. Chris xx

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  8. Great tutorial will give it a go when i have a moment....many thanks Sharon x

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  9. I know how to make these cards but never sure how to decorate. Love to see yours when you have done it. xxx

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  10. fab tutorial - thanks for sharing
    Linda

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