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Today's guest designer is Elizabeth Thayer from http://www.hold‐it‐store.com/
She has a lovely store which makes bags for dies cutting machines. So do check out her store.
She had left a comment in my blog and happened to come across her site. I asked if she would be a guest designer so she said yes and so I am posting the file she sent. Just a reminder please always check with the designer for their copyright usage. http://www.hold-it-store.com/Holditblog/blog.html

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Materials Needed:

One 8.5” X 11” cardstock
Paper Cutter
Glue
Embellishments/patterned cardstock
Envelopes: 4 3/8” X 5 ¾”
#16 rubber band (most common size)
Optional:
Cricut die cut machine to cut greeting (in my example, thank you)
 

Use 8 ½ by 11” cardstock (cut in half lengthwise)
Yields two long pieces, 4 1/4” X 11”
Total Length: 9 ¾”
Width:  4 ¼”
Mark and score:
1 ¼”
2 ½”
3 ¾”
5”
6 ¾”
8 ½”
9 ¾”

Trim remaining 1 ¼ inches
Score all dotted lines
Fold all lines in one direction EXCEPT between the
two 1 ¾” segments.  That one line will be folded the
opposite direction.
Clip at red dots (about ¼”)
Cut 1 1/4” each side as shown on second score line
from top
 
Illustration of scoring and folding
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Box Assembly
 
Place elastic around largest segments in ¼” notches



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pull elastic from one side through 1 ¼” cuts between first and second segments

 

 
 

  
 
 
 
 
Fold of longest segments aligns with corner with 1 ¾” cut corner. Wrap first 

and last segments and glue firmly in place

Cut Solid Cardstock from 8 ½” X 11” in half, widthwise.  Score and fold in half.

A single piece of 8 ½” X 11” cardstock yields two cards. Each side is folded in half to
form card

Glue box firmly in place with long elastic showing at bottom of box. To be certain of placement, flatten

box before placement.

Cut patterned cardstock 1” less than size of background cardstock.
Front of the card

Thank you for reading!

Liz Thayer

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