Card Making Top Tips and Tutorials
Getting Started
What you will need
1. Score Board
There are lots of different ones available, some are just for scoring card sizes, but some have score lines for making boxes on the back, my favourite one is from Crafters Companion.
2. Paper Trimmer or Guilotine
If you want straight lines you really will want one of these, there are loads on the market, a Rotary one is the easiest to use, Tip when choosing one, make sure you can read the measurements easily as some of them as not very clear.
3. Scissors
Pay a few euros for one as the cheaper ones will blunt easily when using them to cut card, X-cut have great ones or fiskers
Tip dont use your paper scissors to cut foam tape or double sided tape keep the cheap one for this.
4.Glue
The best one I have found is Collall, if this glue spills you can wipe most of it away it a cloth and then allow it to slightly dry and rub the excess away with a clean finger. also Bostic multi purpose (purple tube)
5. Doublesided Tape
Pay a bit more for this, sometimes at craft shows you see 6 rolls for €5.00 this tape really isn't worth buying as it wont tear, and sometimes doesn't stick very well.
6.Foam Pads for Decoupage.
Again pay a bit more for these, as the cheaper ones dont come off the backing paper easy and wont come away singly, also can be very hard to remove the top backing paper, Avec are about €1.00 a sheet of 400 and are the best ones I have found
7.Card
For card making choose card that is 250gram weight or above for matting and layering, 150gram and above I get mine from
Papermill.co.uk
and also
payperbox.co.uk
8.Embellishments
You will need a good range of these and once you get started will have boxes full of them
Try Craftsupplies.ie
9.Decoupage
This is my favourite type
of card making as you will never be stuck for an image, I have closed my
shop down but have bumper packs of 50 mixed occasions A4 Sheets for €20.00
just email me if you want more details
saving you €30.00 s they are normally €1.00 per sheet
Basic instructions for card making for Beginners working on a Crafters Companion Scoreing board
- Card
Sizes
- C5
or A5
- Is
an A4 sheet of card Scored on the half fold A4 score line and folded in half
- Half
an A4 sheet cut is now an A5 Sheet
- C6 or A6
- Is
an A5 sheet of card scored on the half fold A5 line and folded in half
- Box
measurement for A5 card
- 26cm
by 19cm
- If
your using the top score multi board.
- To
make boxes for smaller size boxes
- Measure
both pieces of card the same size and score one the on the lid side
and on the base side.
Using the Crafters Companion board
- Gate
Fold Card
- Is
an A4 card scored on the gate fold A4 line twice
- Concertina
Card
- Is
an A4 Card scored on the half fold A5 line and twice on the gate fold
A4 line and folded in 4 giving you 4 equal size folds.
- Tri
Fold Card
- Is an A4 card scored on the A4 Tri-fold line twice giving you 3 equal size folds.
Matting and layering
These are the pieces of backing card or paper we use to make a topper.You will hear and see this therm a lot in card making
Decided
want Embellishment you want to put on your card look at the size of it, if
it’s 6cm long by 4cm wide your matting and layering cards should be no
more the 2/3cm bigger, other wise the embellishment will be lost on the
layer. You can choose to have 2 or 3 layers for your topper.
Embellishment
6cm long 4cm wide
First
layer of topper
would then be 8cm by 6cm
Follower
by the second layer 9cm by 7cm and so on.
C6
Card
Simply
stick the larger of the two layers to the top centre of your C5 or C6 card
with glue or double sided tape, and then stick the smaller one central on
top, your card is now ready to add decoupage or an embellishments.
For
Backing papers
The
papers are normally A4 which is 30 centimetres across
If
wrapping your card with paper, turn the sheet landscape and cut the sheet in
3 giving you
3
x 10 centimetres strips.
You
will need about 8 centimetres for the front of you card leaving you 2
centimetres to wrap around the back, finish off with a peel off strip.
Paper wrap on a C5 card
Getting Colour combinations right
When matting and layering your layers to make a topper for your card, my advice is to look closely at the colour of the embellishment or decoupage you want to use, pick up the colours in the embellishment (example in picture) I have used a lilac and white bouquet, so the colours in my topper are lavender, Blue and white with a touch of silver in the writing,
Using the colour wheel above you will see that varying shades of the one colour work best, but contrasting the colour with the opposite colour work equally as well.
My favourite
opposite colours are
Don’t be afraid to experiment with colour combinations
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
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