Heidi Swapp's Amazing Pocket Card

I love making little mini album cards and booklets. When I saw Heidi Swapp had a pocket card class called "Surprise Inside" I had to try it. This project has several cards that fit into each other housed inside an envelope pocket. I had never seen anything like this and took her class. I enjoyed learning to make the various shapes of cards and loved how it turned out.

Here is a video tutorial I made and some pictures of a second one I created. So fun!

Aren't these adorable? I enjoyed it so much, I may make another one. Hope you will give it a try, too. Have a nice day and thanks for stopping by.

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