Christmas challange

Hi all!

Writing this one in english since I am going to be bold enough to join an challange on Joanna Sheen's challange blog =)

The challange asked for Christmas cards. Since you often tend to do rather many of those it was a challange in itself to choose which was the one to enter to this challange.

I ended up choosing this one to the right >>>

One reason being the special fold I used and which I will explain further down. But also the fact that I used Swedish brand papers: Maja Design, the papers are from both the 2011 and 2012 christmas season collection. The picture of the santa is from -12.

The lace is just a normal bought in the supermarket kind of lace but I really like it being so vintage like.
Without the ribbon it won't stay closed so you need some sort of ribbon to keep it all together.

NOW the fold.
You need a perfect square. 20*20 or 25*25 is good both rather good ones to choose.

1. First fold is just straight across so flat it will be a 20 cm long and 10 cm wide piece of paper.
2. Flatten it out again.
3. Do the same fold again from the opposite direction.
4. Again lay the full sized square out in front of you.
5. Now it is time for a diagonal fold. One corner to the opposite corner.
6. Now you are pretty much done. Now let the diagnoal corners meet in the middle.  To me it looks a little bit like two bird beaks potinting at you. Take your other hand and flatten the card so it folds towords the middle looking like the card on the right side here >>>
7. Then decorate with joy!