Today I want to show you a Double Diamond fold card. The tricky bit is getting your score and folding lines right. I found it easiest to practice on copy paper first.

I adapted this card from one I saw online and made it so it would work using our A4 cardstock that we use in NZ. I started with a piece of card measuring 29 x 13 cm. Then I scored in half (in portrait position) at 6.5 cm. Turn to landscape for more scoring and marking. Score length of card at 6.5 cm. Move to 9 cm, do not score but instead make a mark at the centre score line at 9 cm. Move to 11.5 cm. Make a mark at the top and bottom of your card. Move to 17.5 cm. Make a mark at the top and bottom of your card. Move to 20 cm. Make a mark on the centre score line. Move to 22.5 cm. Score down the length of your card.

Now take a ruler and bone folder and score from the 11.5 mark to the middle 9 cm mark. Do this top and bottom. Then the same on the other side; score from the 17.5 mark to the middle 20 cm mark on both the top and bottom. You will have a diamond shape in the middle

The two outside panels are mountain folds. The diamond shape you made last is all valley folds but the score line in the centre of the diamond is a mountain fold.

The best way is see how this works to watch a YouTube video on a diamond fold card. It folds together like origami that you did as a kid.

I then cut panels and decorated it using the Timeless Tulip stamp set.

You can also put a white panel on the back to write your message.