Card Making Tutorials

Basic Equipment Needed

Cutting Matt                                       Craft knife

Metal ruler                                           Scoring board/ boning tool

Scissors                                               Paper trimmer

Silicone glue                                        Pencil

Double-sided tape .5cm /foam pads

Materials

Blue hand made paper                                    Traditional Christmas papers

Blue Tartan backing paper

Silver, gold, green and cream card     Narrow ribbon pale blue, red and gold

Gold and silver peel offs – borders, stars and sentiments.

These are very easy to make and shouldn’t take very long and the possibilities are endless. Different papers, the size of the parcel it is just up to your imagination.

Step one

Cut a square 3.5cm x 3.5cm from the hand made paper and another 4cm x 1.5 cm from the silver card.

Step Two

Place the lid of the parcel so that it’s just over lapping the base using double- sided tape

Step three

Cut out a piece of blue ribbon to cover the front and round the back. Then simply place over your parcel.

Tip: I cut double-sided tape into thin strips that will fit on the ribbon and stick in place before I put it onto the parcel or card. (If you find this too fiddly then place the ribbon round the card and stick down on the back firmly with the tape and leave the backing on)

Step four

Make a bow and place on the top of the parcel.

Step five

Make a backing for your parcel by simply cutting a piece of card slightly bigger than the lid and base.

Depending on the size of your parcel you may feel that you don’t need a backing.  The choice is yours.

Decorate the parcel by placing small silver stars randomly over the base. You can often find these on the greeting peel offs.

Step six

Place a double-sided foam pad on the back

Your topper is now ready to put on your card. I have made a few for you to see some with Christmas papers. The possibilities as I have said before are endless.

To make card A

I used an A5 card in blue to match parcel, turned it to landscape so fold is at the top

Cut a piece of cream card the same as the backing for the parcel 10cm x 7cm and then a piece of  blue tartan backing paper 9.5cm x 6.5cm and attached them to the left-hand side of the card.

To decorate I chose a corner silver star peel offs, holly and silver greeting placed on the same colour card as the parcel and cut around the edge; attach to the card on the right-hand side with foam pads. To finish off simply place the  topper just above the lower edging  and  with love sentiment above.

If you wanted you could add a persons name to make it more personnel again with peel offs. There are just so many to choose from its great.

To make card B

I used cream A5 card and Christmas traditional papers (brought at any craft shops)

I made a bigger parcel  from the christmas paper and placed a red ribbon and a brought bow (from local craft shop) around it.

Cut a  piece of gold card and layer it with green card then place the parcel on the top to finish.

I cut the merry Christmas strip from the same traditional paper as the parcel and placed it underneath

Place  the parcel at the top of the card about 1.5cm down and finished off with red metallic stars.

To make card C

A5 card in cream fold in half cut off 3.5cm off the front of the card. Cut the Merry Christmas from the traditional Christmas paper that goes vertical and attach with double sided tape.

Place a straight border down inside edge. On the front of the card make a border .5cm all the way round in gold peel offs.

Place a sentiment on the top and the parcel down the bottom.

Step seven

Place a greeting insert into the card; either from the computer or write you own.

The paper needs to be .5cm smaller than the card, put narrow double-sided tape on each side of the fold and place into card.