Tri Fold Shutter Card

I had seen this style of card done on other blogs and on pinterest so I thought I would have a go.
When finished the card looks quite complicated but once the basic principle of it is understood its not that difficult.


Card From the front

  First you need to decide how wide you want your finished card to be then times this by three, my card was 4inches wide so the card I worked on was 12 inches by I think it was 6 inches.
I mad the fold using a score board (stampin up simply scored) this gives me easy clean score lines to fold on.
The way I think of it is first divided the long side in to thirds so score at 4 and 8 inches, then leave the middle third alone and divide the third at each end in half so score at 2 and 10 inches.
Next I used a craft knife (and metal ruler with a finger grove in safety first) to make two cuts running from the 2inch score line to the 10 inch score line, as my card (I think) was 6 inches I cut at 1 and a half inches from the top and up from the bottom leaving 3 inches in the middle.




Card open.

Then it is a case of folding the score lines the on the 2 and 10 inch lines the middle panel is not folded and one the other ones the middle panel is folded the opposite way to the top and bottom ones. This maybe easier to understand by looking at the picture taken from the top of the card.

View from Top of card.

Then is is just a case of decorating it how ever you wish. I chose just to cut some panels of patterned paper and then embellished on top but I've seen cards done with more layers. I would point out not to build anything too deep with foam pads in the middle sections as this might effect how it closes and  be conscious of which parts of the card will sit next to the front panel when closed.




Another view of the open card.

 Happy Crafting.