Spellbinders February Clubs: Wax Seal and Stitched Die

My goal with the wax seal of the month is to show you lots of different ways to incorporate them into your card making.

For this month I created a cross fold pocket. Super simple. This is easy to create but complicated to explain...lol

Use an 8.5"x11" cardstock, cut landscape at 5 1/2" this will give you two A2 card bases. Score them at 4 1/4" 

Take one card base and insert it into the other so you have a flap that opens to the left and to the right. Once you have this laid out, leave the right side open and use your ruler and pencil to lightly create a diagonal line. Once you have the left side marked, go ahead and close the right side and mark your diagonal line. This way allows you to visually see and make sure you are cutting away the correct pieces. 

Our goal here is to cut the outer flaps in half at a diagonal to create a criss cross pocket. 

If you are confident, just do the cut in your trimmer without the pencil line. I wasn't so I used the pencil guide. Also, you could do a test with printer paper so you don't waste you good cardstock. 

I used double sided adhesive on the inner bottom fold and on the inner diagonal line to adhere the flaps closed. 

The twine is purely decorative. 

The background for the card panel is one I made myself and will offer as a free printable here on the website real soon.

I designed this to create 4 card panels from an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. I used one of the 4 panels I created and trimmed that down to 4 1/8th inch x 5 3/8th inch and added it to a craft card base. I used twine and wrapped it along the left edge with a bow for additional interest. 

I left the sentiment off when I designed the printable so you can add your own with die cuts or like I did, stamp with a hot foil plate. Of course you can also use regular stamps.

I used a couple different Versafine Clair inks for the sentiment- I cant remember them off the top of my head. I will list them in the supply list.