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Everyone loves to receive a handmade greeting—whether it's a birthday wish, a party invitation or a get-well
card. Here our designers share their tips and techniques to make creating these cards a little easier!
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Dragonfly Birthday Card
By Paris Dukes
How to hide the glue when you're working with vellum? One easy solution is to look for places to hide adhesive
under your artwork. In this card, Paris covered the area where she glued the vellum by putting her tag over the
top.
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Supplies:
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Instructions:
- Place the card so it opens on the right hand side. Cover the card front with the upper left
hand corner of dragonfly paper. Tear a 3 1/2”x6 1/2” strip of purple vellum,
leaving the top and bottom straight. Tear a 2 1/4”x6 1/2” strip of white vellum,
leaving the top and bottom straight. Adhere to center of the card, adding adhesive where it will
be hidden when adding tag.
- Cut out the dragonfly artwork as shown. Cut out tag using the tag template from additional
dragonfly paper. Tear a strip of purple vellum 2”x5 1/4”, leaving the top straight.
Layer the vellum onto tag and add dragonfly artwork with foam tape. Glue onto tag, hiding adhesive
for vellum under the artwork. Glue beads onto wings using Scrappy Glue. Add eyelet and fibers to the tag.
- Add foam tape to tag and the tag to the card, angling slightly.
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Here's to a “Speedy?Recovery
By Shauna Berglund-Immel
Annie Lang's Big Cut-Outs™ make perfect embellishments for cards. They're just the right size
and the colors are bold, bright and cheery. A perfect card for a child! They can easily be embellished
with brads or attached with foam tape to add dimension.
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card front |
Supplies:
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Instructions:
- Cover card front with periwinkle sponged paper.
- Open card and place on a cutting mat. Using an X-acto® knife, cut a 3 5/8” square out of the center of the card, 1/2” from the top of the card.
- Cut four 1/8”x3 7/8” strips of black and adhere around window on card front.
- Cut a 4” white vellum square and glue to the inside back of the card front over the window.
- Computer journal sentiment and trace onto center of vellum window, using black gel pen.
- Cut out the square Annie Lang Cut-Outs™, mat on sponged periwinkle and trim to 1/8” mat. Center behind vellum window and adhere.
- Cut out red car Annie Lang Cut-Out™, place mini brads in center of wheels and adhere to bottom of card as shown using foam tape.
- Journal and pen work with black pen.
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Pink Purse Tea Party Invitation
By Susan Cobb
This whimsical little purse will delight any girl—whether
she's five or 95! Mix and match different patterned papers to suit the recipient's color preferences.
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Supplies:
- 5”x6 1/2” blank card: Paper Flair™: white
- Paper Flair™ Pink Petite Prints™ Paper Pack
- Paper Flair™ Pastel Vellum Paper Pack
- pens: sliver Sakura Gelly Roll, black Zig® Millennium
- Scotch®Brand foam mounting tape
- 9” of 1/4” wide pink satin ribbon: Offray
- mini-scalloped decorative scissors: Fiskars®
- X-acto® knife, cutting mat
Patterns:
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Instructions:
- Turn the card so the fold is at the bottom. Trace pattern onto the card and cut out the purse shape from both layers of the card.
Open the card and place it on your cutting mat. With your X-acto® knife, carefully cut out the flap shape beneath the handle from
the card front ONLY. Draw around the opening on the inside back with a pencil, then cut the curved area only and fold the flap through
the front space and down over the card front.
- Cover the card front with light pink dotted paper for the handles and dark pink dotted paper for the body of the purse. Use
the pattern to cut the pocket from the light pink dotted paper, using the decorative scissors on the sides and bottom. Cut a small
heart and the trim from pink vellum. Outline pieces with silver and write “You're Invited!” on the heart. Glue the
vellum pieces as shown to the pocket front, then glue to the lower center of the card front.
- Cover the purse flap with light pink dotted paper, then cut out the decorative piece from pink vellum, using decorative scissors
around the outside edge. Glue the vellum piece to the center of the flap. Cut the small inside square from the flap, then outline the edge
of the square and its window with silver pen. Place the small square on two layers of foam tape, and trim the edges evenly with the square.
Close the flap and place the square the foam tape in the center, pressing it firmly to the card front. Pull the flap up to open, and down
to close.
- Tie a pink bow and adhere to the card front as shown. Cover the inside back of the card with light pink dotted paper
(fold the flap to the back of the card out of your way while you do this), trimming the edges evenly with the card.
- Write the invitation information on the inside of the card with a black pen.
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