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Victorian Puzzle Card
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Feb 21, 2025
Learn how to make an easy folded Victorian puzzle card, which is also known as a Victorian puzzle letter Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPdD0ifkS1vKYPs3zgDx3YQ/join
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hi everyone Anette kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you how to make a Victorian puzzle
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card or letter so what you need is a
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double-sided card stock and try to make
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it a thin double-sided card stock
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because there is a lot of folding
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involved and we don't want the paper to
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be too thick so we're going to start by
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folding one corner to the opposite
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corner create a diagonal fold going to
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open it and do the exact same thing on
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the other side so you'll have a big X on
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your
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paper I'm going to go slowly so you can
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follow
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along the next step
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is I like to bring
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uh my trimmer for it because it needs to
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be exact what we're going to do is fold
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it three ways so if you are doing it on
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a 12x 12 piece of paper you need to
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score at four
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and8 so this way you'll have three
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identical Parts you can eyeball
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it but when it come to/ thirds it's a
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little bit harder for me to eyeball it
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so that's why I
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use my trimmer or scoreboard so we're
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going to turn it 90° and again score at
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4 and
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8 so you'll have a grid of nine
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squares you can measure with a pencil
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and draw a line if you don't have a
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trimmer and a bone folder so now we can
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go ahead and fold on those score lines
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and it's really important to use a bone
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folder or some kind of tool to really
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burnish your folds cuz this is really
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important for the movement of this
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project so we're going to fold on the
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other two
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lines again creating a grid of nine
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squares you can also make this with a
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white card stock and then
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add paints or drawings or doodlings or
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whatever you
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want so I'm going to turn it over to the
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red side so you'll see better we're
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going to now fold to these inside points
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so you're going to take the corner and
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fold it to the
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opposite point where the
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two lines
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meet and then we're going to do that on
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all four sides so the core
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corner to the
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opposite point where the two lines
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meet the two score lines turn it again
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we're going again the corner to this
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point on all four
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corners and then lastly
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this corner
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here and you see why I meant what I
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meant when I said a thinner
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paper cuz there is a lot of folding
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here now we're going to create the
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folding of the letter so please follow
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along we're going to
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fold from the top on the horizontal
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score
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line and then we're going to find the
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middle
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diagonal line and fold it this
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way going to fold it to the inside and
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then fold the right side along the
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vertical fold line like this creating a
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pointy part there on the
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top then we're going to turn it 90°
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again find the diagonal line fold it it
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and then on the right side fold it along
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the
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vertical score line like
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this it might be a little confusing but
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after you do it a few times you get the
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idea again follow the diagonal
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line and then the vertical line like
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this the last fold is a little bit
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tricky we have to take out this is the
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fold line the diagonal one we have to
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take out the
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inside like this take it out
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completely don't be
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scared so take that
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out like
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this and then you
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have this fold like this then you can do
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the exact same thing along the diagonal
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line fold it
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out so if you need just rewatch this
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part a few times to figure out how to
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make
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it now you we're going to fold in all
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the Four
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Points the four pointy parts and we have
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our
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Victorian puzzle letter card or
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whatever you want to call it and the
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last one goes on the
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inside not this part this inside part
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here tuck it under here to close the
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letter or the
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card so now you know what I mean when I
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say you can do it with the white paper
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and then add all kinds of
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embellishments it's best not to
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glue anything on it if you want you can
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draw paint or doodle this is how it
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opens Isn't that cool now let's put
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something in the middle for our message
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this is the only part where you can
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add extra paper to you can glue it
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on so just cut a 4x4 piece of maybe
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slightly less than four like 116th of an
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an inch smaller than a 4x4 so it won't
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interfere with the
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folding so that the the center is the
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only place where you can add extra
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paper if you're doing this on a white
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piece of card stock you will have to
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embellish with
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drawings paintings
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doodlings colorings and things like that
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because if you add paper it will
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interfere with the
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folding so that was slightly too big
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just want to make sure
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that cut it and see if it fits if not
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make it slightly
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smaller that's
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perfect so I'm going to glue that and
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then close it again so you'll be able to
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see how we fold it
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again just to make sure that you
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get
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it after you do it a few times you get
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the
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idea and any size of uh Square paper
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will work you can make it bigger you can
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make it
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smaller this is how we fold it
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back now let's take out that piece from
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the inside
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and fold it back now we can close it I
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really hope you like this tutorial
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