Tea Bag Folding - Day 2 Five Point Star Fold (My own design!)

Hi everyone and welcome to day 2 of tea bag folding! 

Today's card:  Pentagram

I made these pictures bigger so that you could really see the detail.

REAL Close Up!

Five-Point Star Fold

1. For this first project, you will need 5 squares of patterned paper, each 3x3.  For this embellishment, choose one paper only.  Also, do not use a thick cardstock.  The folds are very difficult with thicker cardstock.  It can be done, but more difficult.

2.  Here are the folds in order.

Once you have all five squares folded, take two of the finished pieces and overlap the edges.

1. Take one piece in each hand.
2. Slide the left side triangle piece in your right hand beneath the right side triangle in your left hand. (Sorry if this is confusing -)
3. The pattern that I used is left over right.

1. Use glue dots to attach one to the other.
2. Take the next piece and attach it next.  Work your way through all the pieces until they are all attached. 
3. When you attach your last piece, you will need to attach the piece on the right also to complete the circle.
4. Now that the star is completed, all I did was add it to my card.  (The star I made was a little loose so I pushed the outside edges to the center so that there would be no opening in the center.  Since the back of this medallion is flat, I used a strong liquid glue to glue it to my card.)
5. My paper was two sided.  I took the star point (I am holding one in the picture below) and folded it forward to make a little triangle.

1. I added gold Liquid Pearls and a small ivory tassel.
2. There are tons of variations to the basic teabag fold in my sample. Design Originals had a book called Tea Bag Sampler some years ago. It is a great reference.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you tomorrow for my third card.

Lis