Send a card you've made yourself - you can be sure the person who gets it will appreciate the thought. Obviously, the card has to be designed with the event and recipient in mind.
Here's a design for a card for teenagers, in bright colors, the way they like it! The card is "dressed" in strips of card in contrasting colors and with wavy borders for a quirky feel! There's even an insert on the inside!
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Be careful to keep the scraps from each stage, they're used at the end!
Step 1 |
Make the base of the card from cardstock, in this case orange. Then cut out strips a third to a half inch wide from another cardstock (here in bright yellow). This cardstock should be a little taller than the first card. Cut the strips using a guillotine that lets you make this 'wave' cut. Stick these strips at evenly spaced intervals on the front of the card. Trim any overlap at the top and bottom. |
Cut out a heart-shaped window either by drawing and then cutting out with a craft knife, or (as we did here), a template and Fiskars R Shape Cutter swivel knife (making adjustments for different thicknesses). | |
Step 2 |
On a third (red) cardstock, cut out the same size of heart as in step 1.Then, using another template, cut out a heart of smaller size, leaving you with a heart-shaped frame to fit around the window. |
Step 3 |
For the inside of the card, prepare a pale yellow cardstock sheet by cutting out a small heart-shaped hole (to see the orange color behind) and wavy borders along three of its sides. Then paste it in. |
Step 4 |
A surprise awaits inside the card Paste together the heart-shape left over from step 1 and a heart-shape of the same size from step 2, but inserting first between them a thin strip of card with the end folded. The end of this thin strip will be pasted to the back of the card and hidden by a little cut-out in card On one side of the heart (the other side being the 'wavy' side) paste the smaller heart cut out during step 3. |
Step 5 |
To balance out the front of the card, paste three hearts in the three different colors used on top of the other (leaving a little space between each). |