a few Christmas folds – a couple new.

I am beginning to get requests for Christmas Book folds patterns so I thought this might be a good time to resurect these.  Just a warning: Download the actual PDF, don’t use the .jpg display images you see on the screen!

These are likely to work as straight folds. I’ve added a couple more trees, all of these are pretty simple for beginners.

Simple tree

A more rounded tree

A split tree, so many alternating folds, but not hard hard.

A Present – this one might be a little more challenging with the alternating folds, but I think it will come up nice.

& Folds

Rudolph is so darn cute. And one of my followers DID fold it – I think it turned out pretty great and adding a red pompom for the nose – or even adding a wired blub to make it really glow? Would be FAB!

Simple Swirl – likely best as Cut&fold

Ornate tree – pretty complex, this one. Not for beginners but if you do it I would love to see it! And this is best as a Cut&Fold.

Balls – I think the counting lines hide the fact there are at least two straight lines from bow to ball.

I repeat, I have not folded or cut&folded any of these.  They should work in theory, but no way to be sure until you fold them.

Any requests that seem like they would be of universal appeal for the holidays, I’ll add them here. I am almost 100% sure at some point I created a dreidel, a menorah, and a few spellings of Hannuka in the past but at the moment I can’t find them. Must be squirreled away in a folder that I named something stupid that made sens at the time but not now. DOH!

As ever PLEASE share your folds if you do make one. I love seeing them and hearing the reaction of the people who get them as gifts.

Regular crafting will resume tomorrow. I am on a bit of an ornament kick at the moment so forgive me – usually I never even consider that major C holiday till weeks from now but I have been tempted by a few nifty things I want to share!

Cat folds!

I just thought you might like to see one of the folds completed.  Sandra, a follower here, kindly sent me a photo.  I think it turned out pretty well, don’t you?

You can download the templates in the previous post!

Book foldings – cats

Super quick.  My boiler packed in this AM.  Typical.  At least it is not super cold today!

Anyway, I was sending out some cat-related book fold requests and I thought I might as well share them – I am not one myself, but I know there are cat-fanatics out there that will appreciate them!

Even I have to admit these are cute.

Grab the three page PDF here!

Remembrance day poppy folds

Hey there.

It’s been a busy few weeks, with visitors coming and going. The last one is due back from a side trip today and will be gone next week.  Phew.

Triggered by a request for a “Lest We Forget” pattern, here are a few I designed.

There are the two poppies, which would work ok as a straight book fold.  They might work best as a combined Cut&Fold.  If they are done so the central section of the flower is concave, you could easily add a printed bit that says REMEMBER or the date or something similar. Don’t be worried by the overlapping darker areas in the first one.  They do not print like that.  Download that set here.

The initial Lest We Forget design is one that was requested.  The ones with the poppy variations I thought might be easier to do.  You can get that trio of designs here. I think it is very clear that those will only work as Cut&Folds!  Very complicated!

Additionally you could Cut&Fold (or maybe just fold?) the Lest We Forget words and add a poppy (knitted, crocheted, paper, whatever) in the middle rather than folding it!

If you make one PLEASE share it!  I’m sure people would like to see it.

 

 

 

 

Why did I never do this before? Mom/Mum and Dad book folding

I had a request for a Mum and a Dad book folding template.  I have done Mum before but not a set.  And not sure I have done Dad (or indeed my preferred Mom) either! So I have done them as sets of four.

Mum has its own issues – the M and the u and the m all have straight upright letters in some fonts.  In order to make them readable without lots of inserted folded back pages (something I also get asked about a lot and recently replied to a comment regarding it with some untested but logical ideas) the font choice has to have serifs or be scripty.  These are four that I think will work:

Download MUM here

MOM is less an issue unless the O is squarish:

That lets me use a plainer font- the right top one would never work for MUM as it would all blend into a solid block without folded back pages! Download MOM here

Dad was easy and I think all of these (one which matches at least one the Moms or the Mums) will work:

Download DAD here

Hopefully that will give you something to do until I feel up to posting more often then once a month LOL!

A break from sending templates, printable Hipster card toppers, and the most bizarre tech tip

First, I am taking a break from sending out templates over Christmas.  I will sort out the few I have in my comments today and respond to any that come in until DECEMBER 19TH.  After that, you can click on the Book Folding categories or tags or menu item at the top and feel free to download any of the templates I have shared.  While you won’t find specific images or words or names, there is probably going to be SOMETHING you can use to make a last-minute gift!

Here are a couple of printables.  This PDF will print two images has six of the images which print at about 3.5 inches square

This PDF has 12 images at just shy of 2.5 inches square, perfect for tags.

Lastly, I just have to share this bizarre tip I found.  I had a moment of absolute panic when my trusty Canon Pixma stopped working, throwing out a B200 error and telling me I needed to take it in for a service.  Cue copious cursing and a pretty weak tantrum, but only because of my myositis LOL!  Trust me, inside, I was RAGING.  I dropped a Slack to dear hubby, who is my tech hero, as well as having a very calm head in the face of things I totally lose my sh*t over, who suggested checking online for an error reset hack.  I found a few that involved things that did NOT work (like pushing a series of buttons, holding them down on a coordinated and times fashion, or uninstalling the print head, which didn’t work for MY Pixma model and turned out to create another problem) then I stumbled on the genius, simple, but frankly totally BIZARRE solution that worked first time!! The steps are simple:

1. Turn OFF the printer
2. Open the flap as if to change inks cartridges
3. Turn the power back ON
4. Wait for print carriage to start moving to the left and let it go past half way

This was where I was thinking in my head There is NO WAY this is going to work! HA!

5. Before print carriage reaches left hand side (but after going halfway across) shut the cover.

Again, I am thinking I will miss the exact point I need to close the cover and should be spending my time figuring out how to convince DH to stop and buy me any printer he can, then bring it home and install it this afternoon. But the closing of the lid at the right moment was either luck or the window of opportunity it quite a wide one or it doesn’t matter at what point you close it

6. Leave the Printer on
7. Good to go.

I printed a test sheet, did all the cleaning functions offered in the print utility and printed a perfect sheet.  My green ON light is steady and as the instructions said, GOOD TO GO!

So it PRINTS, and the B200 error has been cleared, except now, the previous attempt and removing the cartridges and removing the print head must have misaligned it somehow, so in the end I am not good to go.  I am back to raging.  Oh well….

 

Pixel Calendar for 2018 and Sisters book folds

We had some mail issues in November, I won’t bore you with the technicalities, but it meant that I got mail sometimes, on some devices, but not on others.  So when it got fixed I got a lot of mail in a flood.  I seem to have missed a couple of template requests, so if you asked for one and have NOT gotten it, and you have already checked to make sure it didn’t get put in your SPAM folder, then come back to me.

I had a request for a favourite calendar, for 2018.  Download that here

And also a request for a book folding template that is probably useful for many, SISTERS. Here it is for download, a few options:

A few Christmas folds

Here are a few Christmas book folding templates I have been playing around with.  The trees are simple, and could be tarted up with decorations – oooh, I wonder if you could add those tiny battery-operated LED lights to the fold somehow?  Hummmm…

The reindeer are maybe a little more tricky, maybe better for cut&folds.  But either way, if you do make one, send along a photo so I can see and if the photo is clear and in focus I might share it here. I never have time to fold all the designs so it is nice for people to see they work and what the end result looks like!

Grab that PDF here.

And just a reminder of a more challenging one:

and the design folded by Melanie.

You can find some other Christmas folds, including Rudolph, here.

Prom?

OK, so I know this is well in advance of when it might be needed, but I have had more than one request for a Prom? template over the years.  I always intended to make a set available but never got around to it.  Then I had another email request and it prompted me to just do it.  I figure Prom?– askers might appreciate the extra time to wrap their heads around the craftiness required, make a test fold, and find the right, most significant book.

Not to appear too cynical but the book can be folded and hidden away.  And it’ll still work, even if the potential recipient changes over the course of the year.

Now, there are 7 fonts, but with the last one, I experimented with a top-to-bottom stretch to give it a bit more height.  I think it will work.  I quite like funky #5 personally.  But you should also know I have not folded any of these myself.  If you do, send me a photo. I’d love to add it to show people how they turn out! Grab the whole set in the PDF here.

I think it would be cute to present the book with a long-stem rose threaded thru the spine….just a thought…..

FAMILY book folding templates

I may have mentioned that my most requested book folding templates are for the word FAMILY.  I’ve also said that I would be adding a set for easy download.  Here they are.  Don’t worry about the overlapping bits in some of the fonts.  This is what I usually send with my templates:

The words/images are s t r e t c h e d so they will look in proportion when folded.  

Don’t worry! Overlapping lines show on the screen but not when printed 🙂 

The lines DO NOT tell you how many pages you need for your template, they are to help with the counting. Be sure to go back to my blog post for info on how to calculate the page count.  https://scrappystickyinkymess.wordpress.com/folded-book-templates/ has links to two different posts for how to do this. Be careful to count the alternating folds correctly!

Why I won’t tell you how many pages you need can be found here https://scrappystickyinkymess.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/book-folding-why-i-wont-count-them-out/

Here is the PDF for download.  The one inside the heart is one that had been requested.  As I had it I thought I might as well  include it.  I think it might work better as a cut & fold, but if you give it a go and it works, be sure to share a photo with me.

Hope you find it useful!