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Step 1. "Square-up" the face of the card. Example: if the card is 5" wide, then center the design and make it 5" tall as well...ending up with a 5" square piece to work with.

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Step 3. Flip card face over and draw a line corner to corner to form an "X" on the back of the card.

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Step 4. Fold each pointed corner to the center of the "X". This will form a smaller square....looking somewhat like an envelope. Look at both illustrations on this page.

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Step 5. The red dashed lines are the fold line creases that you made in Step 4. Now take the corner and fold across to the point the dashed line crosses the "X" line. Crease each side as you fold. Once the creases are made we will use the fold lines for folding and cutting in the next step.

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Step 6. You should now have the second folded crease line (shown with black ink). You will now cut from the edge to that second fold line.....cut only to the corner of the square that is made by the second fold lines. Look at illustration below.

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Extra Notes: Notice the original square that you made from the front of the card. The diagonal lines that make the "X" are shown....note the "X" is made on the back of the card and does not show on the front of the card. The dashed lines show the three sets of folded line creases that are made when proceeding through the steps....all folds are made on the back of the card face. Note that the central picture on the card will end up on the diagonal of the box top as shown here. If you want it to be square to the box top, you must cut the original card face on the diagonal by turning 1/4 of a turn to make a diamond.