Art Impressions Blog: How to Create a Six Panel Accordion Card!

Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!!!

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I thought it would be fun to create a Six Panel Accordion Fold Card with some crows, hay bales, scarecrows, pumpkins and apples. This can be given as a card or gift! I'm going to place mine on a shelf alongside some of my ceramic pumpkin collection for a festive fall look!

We will be mixing several stamp sets today including the Ai Harvest Together Set (5507), Ai Harvest Sentiments Set (5600), Ai Harvest Pumpkin Set (5595), and the Ai Harvest Set (5598).

So, let's first stamp, color, fussy cut and die cut all of our images. I did all of the coloring off camera for this project because I wanted to focus on the creation and assembly of the accordion fold design. However, I have listed all of the colors that I used for your reference as follows: Blender, Flesh Colour, Pale Orange, Pink Haze, Orange, Scarlett Red, Red, Deep Red, Yellow, Lt Green, Deep Green, Beige, Ochre, Brown, Mid Brown, Brick Beige, Lt Gray, Gray, Smoky Teal.

Next, let's die cut these wonderful, large letters from the brand-new Ai Large Letter Dies (5910). There is also a coordinating Ai Numbers Dies (5911) available, and I will link that below for you as well. We will die cut the letters twice and stack a few together for a bit of substance. Now we can ink the edges of our letters and spatter them with some brown ink.

Now we can create the accordion fold card base, and we will be using the brand-new Ai Mini Rectangle Frame Die Set (5901). This was designed to create a cute frame, but we are going to use the large frame die to create three panels for our card. This will die cut the panels with a tab and score lines. So now we can cut away one of the tabs on the third panel and then assemble these three panels together. Which we will then fold in a back-and-forth pattern or fan fold design. This makes it so easy!!!

Next, we can stamp some cute little sprigs on both sides and spatter with brown ink and for some shine we will also spatter on the new Tim Holtz Sprits in Fossilized Amber. We will also ink up the edges of the accordion card base on both sides.

For our next step, let's grab some woodgrain paper from the Ai Christmas S2 Paper Pack and die cut three rectangles using that same Mini Rectangle Frame Set. We can attach these 6 panels to each section of the card.

Now for the fun...assembling all of these letters and cute little elements onto our card. Just keep in mind that you may only want to pop up items on the front and back of the card so that it doesn't get too bulky when you close the card.

Finally, let's wrap a bit of twine around this project and tie a pretty bow and also add a few sparkly gems!

Thank you so much for joining me today! Have a fun and crafty day!