DIY Mother’s Day Card, Trifold Tuxedo Pocket for Art Journals

Hi Everyone! Paper Art is so much fun to make! Learn to create this DIY Mother’s Day Card using the Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card method. What a great reason to use that stashed away scrapbook paper! I’ll show you how in all the steps and pictures below. This would make a great custom card and gift for your Mom, your daughter, a graduate, or someone special. Please keep reading for the supplies and instructions for an “out of the ordinary” Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.

More About Paper Art

Junk or Art Journaling can take extensive time. But to make a portion of one, such as this Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card, can be done easily over a weekend. This is a great project to see if you are interested in Paper Art or Mixed Media using Paper and Cardboard. If you love arts and crafts this is a great beginner project to see if you are ready to go on the paper art journey.

My Inspiration for the Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card

I was inspired by these three wonderful YouTube instructors. Please, please go check out their channels.

  1. 49dragonflies
  2. Rose Lane Vintage Designs (I think she created this design)
  3. Angela Kerr

Finished Photos

Here is a picture of my take on their inspiration, DIY Mother’s Day Card.

Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.

It will take much longer to write and upload these pictures than it actually took for me to make this card. I did work on it off and on for a weekend. First I’ll show you the finished pictures, then I’ll show you the step by step pictures.

Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.
The finished product.
Here’s a close up of a paper and ribbon and lace snippet. I love how these look like little flowers when you are done.

To make a snippet, you just glue or sew together assorted scrapbook paper pieces, assorted lace pieces and assorted ribbon pieces. SAVE EVERYTHING and recycle.

Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.
Here is a look at the inside and how you have a pocket on each side and in the middle where you can insert cards or tags or journaling paper or photos.

My Mom LOVES birds and flowers, so this paper was a perfect fit to give her as a gift.

The Calendar Collection had these cute stamps. BOTH sides of this paper are adorable.
Isn’t this image so nostalgic?
Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.
The side pockets were made from: 6×6 scrapbook pages. “Recollections” is the name of the scrapbook paper pad. I didn’t want my pocket card to be too bulky and not close well. So I didn’t use any extra lace on the inside portion.
Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.
On the outside, I added the crochet lace edge ribbon to all the bottom pockets and that serves as my method of closure. I used round velcro closures and hid them with ribbon and a button.
Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.
Here is the snippet that hides the velcro closure

SUPPLIES for DIY Mother’s Day Card

  • Two sided Scrapbook Paper for Main Pocket (see below for the ones I chose)
  • Scrapbook Paper for card inserts and side pockets
  • Images you love that you want to include on card
  • Ranger Distressed Oxide in Vintage Photo
  • Buttons and Lace
  • Tacky Glue

I used a 12×12 scrapbook paper printed on both sides. It came from the Calendar Collection by “Authentique”. This collection has some GREAT vintage photos for all seasons and holidays. For the side pockets on the inside I used 6×6 scrapbook paper from “Recollections”. See photos below.

Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card. #authentique Authentique Scrapbook Calendar Collection
If you can catch a sale on this you will be lucky. It is worth it at full price though. Just in my opinion.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR DIY MOTHER’S DAY CARD

Choose Your Paper

Select your sheet of two sided scrapbook paper. My 12×12 sheet has plaid on one side and floral on the other side. I loved the plaid the best and wanted that to show the most. So I folded my paper so the plaid would be on the inside.

The First Two Folds

To begin the trifold tuxedo pocket card, fold the 12×12 paper into thirds. I just eyeballed it with no measuring. For a more vintage look, you can distress the edges with Ranger Distress Oxide in Vintage Photo.

The first step is to fold into thirds. I just eyeballed it.

Fold Top Corners Down

The right and left top corners are folded down at a 90 degree angle.

Fold into thirds and then fold down the top corners.

Fold the Bottom Portion Up

The bottom portion is folded up as high as you want it to go. The pictures below will explain how the card looks on the inside and outside as you make these folds.

INSIDE OR FRONT SIDE OF CARD. You fold down the top corners and fold up the bottom portion to YOUR desired height.
OUTSIDE OR BACKSIDE OF CARD. Here is what the outside looks like after the top and bottoms are folded.

Fold Towards You to Make a Tuxedo Card

To make the Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card, fold the sides in toward you. Decide which side closes first. Next, you can glue the sides shut to make the back pockets. For the inside pockets, I used separate paper and glued the edges. You can make these any shape you want in order to put cards and treasures inside.

Here is a good picture of how you fold the paper to get your trifold tuxedo pocket card.
Another picture before I glued the sides shut. You can also sew down the sides.
Mother's Day Trifold Tuxedo Pocket Card.
You have to decide which direction you will fold from. It could open either way. Mine just naturally wanted to fold right side in first.

Add All Your Images and Greetings Around the Card

The next step is to add all your sentiments onto the card. My theme was MOTHER’S DAY, so I added all the greetings related to giving this card to my mom. This is the FUN part, along with the next step.

Fill in all Your Pockets With Cards and Treasures

Make insert cards for each inside pocket and outside pocket. You can also add photos relating to the theme of your card.

There were so many images that came with this Calendar Collection that it was easy to find more than I needed. I had to actually narrow them down to choose my inserts.

Lastly, I added in a Mother’s Day Word Search that I made online. My Mom LOVES to do these so I wanted to add and hide that into a pocket for a surprise for her.

Conclusion

To sum up, I hope you make one of these for your Mom or for someone special to you. Thank you so much for stopping by to read about this DIY Mother’s Day Card. If you do find yourself LOVING paper art please check out my post called “How to Make a Loaded Vintage Gift Card Or Pocket Card For Journaling” by clicking on this sentence. Click here for the post about a Loaded Vintage Gift Card.

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