July Scor-Pal More Than One Score

 

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!  Happy 4th of July in a few days to my American friends! It's time for another Scor-Pal project with More Than One Score!

This month, I made a card with a kite fold design in the middle.

To make this card, you will need:

Scor-Buddy

Scor-Tape

The Stacker

8 square pieces of patterned paper

cardstock for the card base and behind the folded design

background to coordinate with the design

I used a die to cut out my squares, but you can use a punch, or cut them with a paper trimmer. My squares measure 1 1/4", and my card base is 4 1/4" square, so that gives you some idea of the finished size. 

For each square, line it up on the diagonal on one of the Scor Buddy's inch grooves. You can see in the picture that the bottom of the grooves for the inches are marked, making it easy to line up. Score down the groove.

Once you have all the pieces scored, fold in each corner to meet up with the score line. It will look like a kite shape.

Repeat with all 8 squares.

For the cardstock behind the design, cut it slightly larger than twice the size of your squares. My squares are 1 1/4", so my pieces are 2 5/8". To line up your pieces, on the back of one piece draw a line along the diagonals, and on the other piece mark the midpoint of each side and draw a line connecting the opposite sides.

Then, add your Scor-Tape and place one piece on top of the other one, lining up the drawn lines.

Turn the piece over and add your kite pieces. I laid all the pieces on first, to make sure they lined up, and then I took the release paper off the Scor-Tape and taped them down.

For my card background, I used a technique I saw on Jennifer McGuire's YouTube channel. You add white pigment ink to the raised side of an embossing folder, add your cardstock and run it through your embossing machine. I had some of the white ink transfer where I didn't want it, so I rubbed a matching coloured ink pad over the top of the cardstock. Since the white ink is debossed in the design, it doesn't get coloured.

Try two or more colours for your squares for a different look.