25 Days of Christmas- Day 11- Easy Pinwheel Card- How to

I I have seen this type of pinwheel card all over the internet but it always seemed to be complicated and I was not sure why it was that way so I made it in a way I thought was much easier- you just need the panels to make the card 

 Here is the card we made for our class last month- I finally got around to posting the blog on how to do it.

I did heat emboss with clear embossing powder the Pumpkin from Pretty Pumpkin set all on the back side of the panels so that it would add some interest without detracting from the main images. These are the 4 panels we made. the top was made using the Pretty pumpkin set and sentiment. 

colored in with Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze and Old Olive stampin' blends.

Panel 2 was made using flowers from Nature's Harvest and the sentiment from Quiet Meadow- I stamped the flower on a postit note to create a mask to stamp the words- colored with Daffodil, pumpkin pie , old olive and soft suede.

Stamped the pumpkin in pumpkin pie then did a rock n roll with cajun craze to add some color to the edge and then added some old olive to add some interest to the pumpkin.  the sentiment is from Encircled in Friendship stampset - what a lovely sentiment! 

The last panel was a piece of Daffodil embossed with the timber Embossing folder.  Diecut a tag from Taylor made Tags dieset, stamped the image from Nature's Harvest, stamped Love from Quiet Meadow set, added a piece of Daffodil Delight 1/4 " Ruched Ribbon- currently on clearance and the card is done.

The basic mechanism is pretty straight forward - you will need even number of the basic panels 4 1/4 by 3 1/2 scored at 3/4inches as shown below.   For this card you will use 4 panels. 

the back of the panels will have tape on the section marked on top

You should start with 4 pieces that should be scored like this on the left.  

You will then tape the one piece onto the piece below at the fold line until you have all 4 pieces stuck together as shown below.

 the 4 panels should be stuck together staggered like this. From the side it should look like this.

You then want to fold over the top part at the third fold as shown on the left  and from the top it should look like the picture below that - although the card was flipped the other direction.

then you waill have the back of the top piece as shown on the panel on the bottom right.  

You put the tape on the back of the top piece and then you fold it under and tape it down as shown below.

Now you should have a four sided pinwheel as shown on the left from the top. Basically you are taping one piece on top of the other to make the pinwheel so no need to make a center panel- it is thinner and easier to mail.    The accent panels are 4 x 2 1/2- decorate it however you want  with whatever fancies you- I think this would be super cute with kid's pictures for grandparents- or a multiple sentiment birthday card-  Love the idea.   This four panel card will fit inside a A2 envelope.

 You can extend it by another 2 panels- it has to be even for it to lay flat for mailing but the six panel card will be 3/4 inch longer so you will need a larger envelope- at least A6 ( 4 3/4 x  6 1/2" ) to mail it but isn't it super cute?