Graduation Cap fun fold card

Here is a card I created for those poor 2020 graduates who may not be able to actually have a graduation ceremony this year.  I CASEd this card from a Stamptastic Designs video on YouTube.  I created it in blue and red, but it can be recreated in any color scheme to match your school colors.  Here's the scoop on how I made this cute fun fold card:

List of Ingredients:

Stamps:  Morning Star, Peaceful Moments

Ink:  Blueberry Bushel, Memento Tuxedo Black

Cardstock:  Whisper White, Blueberry Bushel, Real Red, Silver Foil

Accessories:  Stitched Stars dies, Hexagon Dynamic embossing folder (no longer available but you can use an embossing folder of your choice), Bone folder, Gold baker's twine (the twine I used was from SaleABration and is no longer available, but you can use any gold twine), 1/2" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch (no longer available from Stampin' Up!),  Tombow liquid adhesive, Mini Stampin' Dimensionals, Whisper White envelope

Dimensions:

Card base:  8 x 8 ", scored at 4" on all sides

Inside of card:  3 3/4" Whisper White, 3 3/4" Real Red, 3 3/4" Silver Foil

Scraps:  Blueberry Bushel, Whisper White

Basic Instructions:

1.  Cut and fold card base into fourths (4" along each edge)

2.  Score diagonally along one edge.  Burnish all folds well using the bone folder.  (Both diagonal folds are to fold inward.)

3.  Run silver foil piece through Hammered embossing folder (or folder of choice)

4.  Cut Real Red and silver foil cardstock pieces in half diagonally.    Adhere silver foil triangle pieces to upper right and lower left quarters of the card.  Adhere Real Red triangle pieces opposite the silver foil triangles, alternating as desired. 

5.  Stamp sentiment from Morning Star stamp set to one of the white pieces and adhere to the lower right quarter of the card.  Adhere the other white piece to the upper left quarter of the card.

6.  Die cut some star/flourish shapes to adhere to the sentiment layer as well as the lower left corner red triangle.

7.  Stamp and fussy cut or die cut as desired the Congratulations sentiment from the Peaceful Moments stamp set and adhere to the right upper corner red triangle as desired.

8.  Cut a piece of Blueberry Bushel cardstock scrap into a 1 3/4" square.

9.  Punch out a 1/2" circle from Blueberry Bushel cardstock scrap.

10.  Create a tassel from the gold twine as desired, leaving a little length of twine to wrap under the button top of the cap.  Adhere a mini dimensional in the center of the square base piece of Blueberry Bushel, then wrap the extra length of twine around it and secure the twine with a glue dot or Tombow liquid adhesive.  Then adhere the circle piece to the mini dimensional, thus creating the graduation cap for the inside of the card.  Adhere the cap to the center of the white piece in the upper left quarter of the card.

11.  Create a tassel for the front of the card using a 3/4" circle punch (no longer available from Stampin' Up!)

12.  Stamp some of the stars from the Morning Star stamp set onto the flap of the envelope.

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