PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN SPOT: Christmas Parade of Cards Part Three

Friday, October 3, 2025

Christmas Parade of Cards Part Three

Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I want to share a really super easy and delightful fancy fold called the Double Z Accordion Card. I came across this fun fancy fold by Karen Titus on Youtube. After watching the video I immediately went to my craft room, got out my dsp and cardstock and started making this style of card. I was hooked.

In this photo you can see how the long portion of the accordion cardstock strip is attached to the left and right hand side of the card. I've added a simple layered stitched circle made with coordinating designer paper and basic white cardstock for the focal. Remember it doesn't matter what shape your focal is, it can be a square, a circle, a rectangle or other shape as long as it fits the design of the card.

In this photo you can see how the accordion fold bends and the six small dsp squares are layered onto the cardstock. The six squares could be a matchup of designer papers and cardstock, they could could be embossed, or an alternate color. Once again, there's no right or wrong way and no limit to the combinations you can come up with.

Here I've used coordinating designer paper for a mat on the back side of the card. Although I would anticipate writing my greeting on this side of the card, and there's sufficient room to write a message, I could also turn the card and write my greeting on the white space panels on the right. In fact, I've stamped my logo on this portion of the card and you'll see that in other samples, as there was no where else for it to go.

In this view you can see that I've staggered the patterns on the small squares.

Here's How You Make This Card:

Card Base:

Cut a 7 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of basic white cardstock for the card base and score it at 1 1/2" and 3".
Burnish the fold lines - mountain on the 1 1/2" and valley on the 3".

Cardstock Strips:

Choose a coordinating color of cardstock that works with whatever patterned paper you are working with and your card base.
Cut three 7 1/4 x 1 1/2" and score these at 1 1/2" and 3" for Z fold.

DSP Strips and Squares:

Cut three 4" x 1 1/4" strips of designer paper. Adhere these to the three cardstock strips
Cut six 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" squares of designer paper.

Assembly:

Lay the card base flat with Z fold on left side.
Attach cardstock strips with the Z fold on the right. Start with the first strip at the top of the card and put adhesive on the left side first leaving a small margin at the top and side, then do the same on the right side. Adhere the next strip at the bottom edge of the card doing the same thing, and repeat for the last strip by adhering it in the middle of the card base.
Adhere the DSP squares on the right side.

To finish the card create a focal point to go on the front of the card.

So how does this relate to my Christmas Parade of Cards?

The first card in this group started with scraps from the Christmas Tags and More Specialty Designer 6x6 Paper. I simply added some gold foil, a piece of Basic White that was embossed with a retired snow embossing folder and gold snowflake.

Card #1:

The following cards were made using Stampin' Ups! North Pole Delivery Designer Paper. What better way to use up some of the scraps I was accumulating.

Card #2:

Card #3:

Card #4:

Well, that's it for this parade of Christmas cards. I hope you enjoyed it and that you'll try out this fancy fold. I think once you try it you'll be like me "hooked". It really is a very special and fun card to make. In closing here are a few additional samples