CARD JACKET

Want a beautiful technique to dress up your handmade cards? Consider a jacket. That’s right, a jacket—designed by card maker Susan Cobb, this pretty jacket looks beautiful when cut from vellum or patterned paper and makes an elegant addition to your handmade cards. Pattern reprinted from Susan’s Paper Engineering Secrets.

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Supplies:

• 5”x6.5” Paper Flair™ blank white card
  
• papers: Paper Flair™ Blossoms & Buds, Pastel Vellum Paper Pack
  
• solid light purple paper
  
• vellum butterfly: Paper Flair™ Painted Vellum Card Embellishments
  
• silver pen
  
• X-acto® knife and cutting surface

For the jacket:

Use the pattern to cut the jacket from a piece of purple vellum. Outline the vellum edges and slits with silver pen. Wrap the vellum jacket around the card from the back to the front, gluing it to the back edges to secure. Write your message with the silver pen on the lower left corner. Cut out the purple vellum butterfly and glue only the body to the vellum jacket at an angle above the message. Gently bend the wings upward to add dimension. Tuck the jacket right point into the left side slits.

For the card:

Cover the card front with purple paper. Cut a 4 3/4”x6 1/4” rectangle of purple hydrangeas. Use the silver pen to outline the edges, then glue the rectangle centered on the card front.

Susan Cobb loves card-making. “For me, card-making is all about the feeling,” she says. “It’s how the creative process makes me feel—and how I can make someone else feel special with the gift of a handmade card.”

Susan is the author of Susan’s Paper Engineering Secrets and the designer of Hot Off The Press’ popular templates line. She is a frequent contributor to Your Creative Spirit, the Paper Wishes catalog and scrapbooking idea books like Making Fabulous Scrapbook Pages.