Hi everyone – a fold flat 3D card for you today – and hopefully a tip or two.  This is a popular card for babies and young children as it looks very much like the traditional building blocks.  It is just straight scoring and cutting – but if you are careful you can part cut and score which makes the whole card more stable.  Many of the original cards I have seen use 12 x 12 paper, however I didn’t have any in the new incolours, so I have adapted so that it can be made with EITHER UK or US A4 card.   I have used the new Painters Palette DSP and the new incolours Peekaboo Peach and Sweet Sugarplum, with an old favourite – Barnyard Babies.

Materials

Card 4 ½ x 10 ½

DSP 9  squares 1 inch x 1 inch

Card for layers 9 pieces 1 1/8 x 1 1/8

Instructions

LANDSCAPE scoring

At 1 ¼ inches score from the top to 3.2 cm

At 2 ½ score from  the top to 6.4 cm

At 3 ¾ and 5 inches score from top to bottom

At 6 ¼ score to 6.4 cm

At 7 ½ inches score to 3.2 cm

At 8 ¾ and 10 inches score top to bottom

PORTRAIT cutting

At 1 ¼ cut between the score lines 6.4 to 15.9

At 2 ½ cut between the score lines 3.2 and 18.0 cm

Cut out 4 boxes shown as shaded

Crease score lines