New Card Designs

I’ve been watching a lot of card making tutorials on YouTube and learning some simple techniques for creating unique greeting cards (for ANY occasion). For the first set, you take three different but matching pieces of patterned card stock, then cut and shuffle the pieces a specific way to get three cards.

For the next idea, I printed ‘Happy Birthday’ several times into a new document, saved and printed it. I cut a 2” X 2” piece of cardboard to trace around the words so they were in the centre of the square rotated 45” (like a diamond shape). As you can imagine, I had a difficult time getting it right since I don’t have x-ray vision. So, I asked my son to cut me a 2” X 2” piece of Plexiglas so I could see through it to position it correctly (the first time) to trace around it. Works MUCH better.

Here are a couple of the resulting cards. I cut a piece of patterned paper, positioned the sentiment in the middle of the piece, then added ¼” strips around all four sides of the sentiment extending them to the edge. The pieces were them adhered to a white or coloured card base giving them a border around the outside. They are so quick and easy to make. I will be using this design a lot too.