How To Make A Tri-panel Card: Featuring Fancy Pants Designs

An amazingly simple card with a super complex look

Fancy Pants Designs Tri-panel Card

An amazingly simple card with a super complex look!

Many times I will see a card posted online and quickly decide I have no desire to make it due to the apparent complexity. Fortunately, most of the time, once I actually try to make the card I find that it was way easier than it first appeared. This tri-panel card is one such card. This is not my original idea; but, I have seen it posted online many times. Each time I saw it I thought "cool card" and simply skipped over it. Recently I decided to give it a shot and to my surprise it was very easy to make, requiring two sets of score lines and two simple cuts. Take a look below to see how it is made and to find out for yourself how easy this complex looking card really is.

To make the card you will need a 12" x 12" piece of card stock, a scoring board and some patterned papers and embellishments for decorating.

Begin with a 12" x 5 1/2" piece of Kraft card stock. Place on Scor-pal scoring board with the 12" edge at top fence, score at 2", 4", 8" and 10".

Rotate card stock and score between top and bottom horizontal lines at 1" and 4 1/2".

Cut along previous score lines beginning at top horizontal score and ending at bottom horizontal score.

Fold as shown below:

That's it!

You have just made a tri-fold card.

Now for the fun part!!

The card can then be decorated as desired. I typically line the outer panels with patterned paper leaving a 1/8" mat. For this card that required two pieces measuring 1 3/4" x 5 1/4", two pieces measuring 3/4" x 3 3/4" and four pieces measuring 3/4" x 1 3/4".

Here is what the panel looks like when lined with the patterned paper. It can now be decorated as desired. I chose to use papers and embellishments from the The Good Life from Fancy Pants Designs: