Card Making Tutorials

Christmas Tri-fold cut-away Card

10th of October 2008

You will need

1 x A4 Sheet of card

1 x A4 sheet of Printed paper

1 x Sheet of Silver or Gold card

1 x Topper Die cut Decoupage

Peel-off boarders

Greeting and poem (Email me for a copy of poem)

1. Score a sheet of A4 Card on the A4 Tri-fold line. turn card over and score again on the A4 Tri-fold line. this will give you 3 equal panels

2. You now need to cut a piece of the card away, with a ruler draw a diagonal line from tip of left top corner to half way down right hand panel and cut piece away with trimmer.

3.Cut your Gold card in to 3 x 9cm strips

4.Cut your paper in to 2 x 8cm strips

5.  To measure the pieces of card and paper correctly to fit within the card.

Place 1 piece of the Gold card on to the back panel, slide it up a bit and turn over, draw a line against the card 

6.And cut the piece away,

 9. Stick it down and do exactly the same with the printer paper strip, each piece should have a boarder showing of the piece behind.

 10. each piece should have a boarder showing of the piece behind.

11. Do this with the second panel, (Remembering to fold your card over before hand as in picture below)

7. Your last front panel only needs the Gold card otherwise the topper will be lost,

8. To make your topper pop out all the pieces from a Die-cut  Decoupage sheet. and assemble. stick this towards the lower half of the front panel.

Add a peel-off greeting to a darker strip of card, and mount above the topper finish with peel-offs

Adding your poems

You will need to type your poem and greeting to fit inside a 7cm column, Or you can email me for a copy of poem and greeting (there are 3 different poems on the page.)

10.  Add your greeting to the inside undecorated panel. finish with peel-off boarders and your poem to the undecorated back panel. finish with peel-off boarders

11.The last 2 decorated panels could have pictures or special messages added to them

12. You still have one blank Panel to add your own personal message

Your Finished Card

Hope you enjoyed this Turorial please send me a photo of your finished card and I will pop it up here, many thanks Yvonne

If you need any help with your card making please email me yvontune@iolfree.ie  

Inserts for C5 card

Well this is how I do mine, so here it goes.

1. Open new page on Microsoft word, 

2.Change page layout to landscape

3. Add 2 columns, you will then have to move spacer bars to 1cm at both sides.

This will give you 2 even spaced columns. And will make the insert centralised

4. Now to add a picture

Go to goggle click on images, and choose an image i.e. if you are doing a wedding card look for wedding bells/wedding flowers/wedding rings.

When the little box appears with the image in it, click on See full size image “which is next to the image in red”, when the image has opened larger, copy image and paste to your left column, centralise the image and drop down to centre of sheet,

Now drop down until you jump over to the right column. And type your poem or greeting, choose a colour ink to match the image, choose your font size and font you like, centralise the greeting and drop down to centre of sheet, and print

See picture below

Your page will be slightly to big to fit inside your card so fold in half and trim 3 mm from sides and 3mm from either top or bottom of the insert, use a corner or a boarder punch to add some pretty detail.

Hope this helps anyone struggling with there inserts Yvonne