How to cut and score card bases

I wonder how many thousands of card bases I have prepared over my 15-year Stampin’ Up! career? (I totally forgot to celebrate my SU! anniversary last week! Congrats to me!)

It is so second nature to me that I hardly have to think about making a folded 5.5″ x 4.25″ card base. For some of my stampers, however, it is not something they do nearly every day, nor is it necessarily easy to understand. I have two simple tips to cut two card bases from one piece of 8.5″ x 11″ card stock:

Score once, cut once.
Score at the halfway point of one side (long or short), cut at the halfway point of the other side.

To make this easier to understand, I’ve prepared a video to show you what I mean:

In this video I demonstrated the Stampin’ Up! Paper Trimmer, with additional Cutting Blades Multipack. You can see them on page 45 of the January-June 2020 Mini Catalog. Click the images below to add products for this card to your cart in my Stampin’ Up! online store. Disclosure: I get a commission for purchases made through these links, at no additional charge to you. Thank you!