Star Ornament HSS98

Sorry, these photos are not too good---it’s been rainy & dreary here for several days, not good for photography!  The challenge this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments is to create a card with a unique fold. 

Although this isn’t a card, it does have some folds!  And I know that I saved the directions from someone’s blog for this ornament, but for the life of me I cannot locate it now…I had to do it from memory!  But I’ll keep looking!  Edited to add:  Here is a link to Dawn's blog -not my original source, but this is the same style:  Folded Star Ornament.  So here we go:

The basic star requires five squares of card stock; you can make them any size, these are 2” square.  Again, I’ll try to find the directions or maybe write up a tutorial if anyone is interested.  It’s pretty easy!  The neat thing is that when you pull the button up and fold the star together, it looks like this:

Neat, huh?  I will tell you that there needs to be some tension between the ribbon & the button; if it slides too easily, it will not hold together.  I used Crumb Cake cardstock with Cherry Cobbler and Soft Suede ink; the snowflakes were from Winter Post, Short & Sweet, and Every Little Bit; the sentiment is from Pennant Parade. 

Cassidy had a really cute outfit on yesterday, but it was really hard to get one good picture of it!  Here’s a couple….you can see that one of her favorite activities is strewing old VCR tapes and DVD cases all over the floor!!

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