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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Handmade card perfect for Valentine's Day or other occasions. NOTE: Card is photographed on a black background.
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, here is a handmade card you can make for someone you love. I think you’ll find this is an easy card to make. What is great about this card design is that you can use my exact design for occasions other than Valentine’s Day, such as a handmade birthday card or thank you card. You can also modify each of the three these design elements (small rectangle, large rectangle and tag) to make a card for any occasion…new baby card, congratulations card, happy mother’s day card, a Christmas card, and so on. The possibilities are endless. In fact, you can simplify this card by skipping little details like the eyelet, the chalk around the edges of the tag, etc., if you don’t have the time or materials and it will still be a really cute card someone is going to love.
Here’s what I did:
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Tags: Birthday, card, eyelet, gift tag, greeting card, handmade, handmade card, handmade paper, love, mulberry paper, ribbon, rubber stamps, tag, thank you, Valentine's Day
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
4th of July Luminaries
Happy 4th of July to you!
Here’s a fast and easy 4th of July craft project. It literally took me minutes to make these cute 4th of July luminaries. They are great if you are having a party or BBQ and want some fun and easy decorations. They are so easy that they make a great kids craft, too. In fact, it’s something the kids could do during the day on the 4th of July for a craft project to keep them busy and entertained. Then they can help you add candles (or LED lights) to light up the luminaries when it gets dark. But the luminaries are still fun and festive decorations during the daytime too!
If you’re a scrapbooker, rubber stamper or paper crafter, you probably already have everything you need already. (more…)
Tags: 4th of July, Candles, decorative, gift bag, handmade, homemade, independence day, led, lights, luminaries, paper bag, Paper Crafts, punch, rubber stamps, scissors, Scrapbooking
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
- It’s an easy handmade halloween card to make!
This is an easy card to make – even for those of you who haven’t made a handmade card before. In just 10 easy steps, your card is complete!
Supplies:
White or Black Cardstock or Blank Greeting Card
Black Paper (if use white cardstock)
Orange Paper
Black Ink Pad
Halloween Image
“Paper Shapers” Decorative Scissors – Deckle Edge
Adhesive (double-stick tape, glue or glue stick)
Optional: Dimensional Adhesive Foam Squares
Optional: Halloween rubber stamp (called “Fred-a-Scare”)
Instructions:
- Get a white or black pre-made blank greeting card at a craft store or make your own by folding a piece of cardstock in half and cutting off the excess paper to make it the size of a greeting card.
- If your card is white, adhere black paper to the front of the card and trim away the excess black paper. Double stick tape is the fastest, easiest method to use for attaching the paper to the front of the card, but glue or glue sticks also work well.
- With a piece of orange paper, tear out (rather than cut) a piece that will fit inside the boundaries of the greeting card so the card will frame the orange paper (see picture).
- Crumple the piece of orange paper and then unfold it again, but don’t flatten it completely.
- Take a black ink pad a gently rub it over the ridges created by crumpling the paper, as well as the torn edges. Only the raised ridges will have ink on them (see picture).
- Adhere this “distressed” looking piece of paper to the front of your card. I sparingly used dimensional adhesive so that the paper would be partially raised from the black surface of the card to give it dimension and interest (see picture, although it is kind of difficult to see it). If you are using regular tape, you can create your own dimensional adhesive by wadding up a small ball of tape to create dimension. Use this “ball” of tape to apply the orange paper. Ultimately, you can apply the orange paper in any way that works for you.
- Find a Halloween image you want to place in the center of the card. You could use a free clip art image, a rubber stamp, or a scrapbooking embellishment, for example. For this card, I used a rubber stamp to create the skeleton on the white cardstock.
- Trim the Halloween image using decorative-edged scissor called “Paper Shapers.”
- Rub the black ink pad along the edges of the Halloween image to blacken the edges (see picture). You can also randomly rub the very edge of the black ink pad across the Halloween image itself to also give it a “distressed” look.
- Apply the Halloween image in the same way you applied the orange paper.
THAT’S IT! You’re done!
Happy Halloween crafting everyone.
Tags: greeting card, Halloween, halloween crafts, handmade card, Paper Crafts, Rubber Stamping, rubber stamps
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