A Man's Shirt card - fun origami

I got this idea from a book on origami.   This one is a welcome grandbaby card.

Take a piece of lightweight designer paper 6 x 10”

Score (or just fold) in the sides so they meet in the middle, your piece is now 3 x 10” (long and skinny)

Fold the top of this piece to the back at about ¾” (this will be the collar)

Now bring the back to the front so you can see the collar (see photo) I started about 1 ¾” down from the top of the collar

Create a space for your greeting (it’s not that big!) by folding back the sides (at the bottom) see photo, I started about 4 ¼” from the bottom

Now fold the bottom up and tuck it into the collar. 

Unfold and insert a greeting – my white card is 4 x 2 ¾.

I like the tropical shirt look (my husband wears Hawaiian shirts!) 

click here to see it in a Tropical look

Add some buttons.  We have some cute tropical buttons and during Holiday 2019 we had these metal buttons (now retired).

When you add buttons be sure to put a bit of thread or twine in the holes, it just looks better I think.  See my photo where I have one threaded and one not? Which do you like better?

I hope you try it, it's really easy and I think it's a fun masculine card!

Happy crafting, MaryKate