Making Folders with Two-Sided Designer Paper

[stampchicago]

Hello--

I saw on the SU! webside the spring catalog, and that there is a lovely picture of file folders made with "heavy" brown and white, two-sided printed paper.

My question is this: did they cover a manilla folder? Because that would be expensive, taking four sheets of paper to do all four sides. Maybe they did only the front and with the leftover from doing that they lined the first 3" or so, thus only using one sheet? Or did they make the file folder out of the designer paper itself? That would only take two pages. That would be neat. Is there a template for that? In the gallery I saw that all the folders had ribbon at the half-way mark, so figured maybe there is some kind of template.

Thank you for your help--

Anne-Marie

[paperball]

Only use one sheet of DS paper, and use you only cover the front and the sticking out tab...that is how I do it...Looks great...you fill it up with stuff and you only see the front if you display it...so why waste it on the back and inside.

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Originally Posted by stampchicago

Hello--

I saw on the SU! webside the spring catalog, and that there is a lovely picture of file folders made with "heavy" brown and white, two-sided printed paper.

My question is this: did they cover a manilla folder? Because that would be expensive, taking four sheets of paper to do all four sides. Maybe they did only the front and with the leftover from doing that they lined the first 3" or so, thus only using one sheet? Or did they make the file folder out of the designer paper itself? That would only take two pages. That would be neat. Is there a template for that? In the gallery I saw that all the folders had ribbon at the half-way mark, so figured maybe there is some kind of template.

Thank you for your help--

Anne-Marie

[stampchicago]

I was experimenting this weeking and I tried crimping a 6" x 12" piece of cardstock, which would act as the folder bottom. Depending on how "heavy" the SU double-sided paper is, I could then cut the 12" x 12" piece into two 6" x 12" pieces, use those pieces for the top part of the folder and have the pattern front, back, and insides. (it's just kind of fun to have the folder lined; plus the stand I use for folders diplays the backs of the folders, too). I'll see how this works when I get my paper and let you know. It won't work if the paper is too filmsy.