Category Archives: All Card Making Ideas

Pop Up Reindeer Card

This is a great fun pop up card that you can make quite easily from scratch. If you want something a bit different for your Christmas cards, then this is an ideal design. You don’t have to stick with the reindeer theme either, try out different colour schemes and different toppers. Below is a picture of the finished card standing and at the very bottom is a picture of the finished card laid out flat.

What you need to make this card:

  1. Plain Card (at least 290mm x 145mm)
  2. Mid Green Mulberry Tissue Paper
  3. Red Nosed Reindeer/Bell Topper
  4. Various Borders Peel Off Sheet – Gold
  5. Merry Christmas Peel Off Sheet – Diamond Gold
  6. Card Creasing Board & Bone Creaser (optional)
  7. Sticky Foam Pads
  8. Invisi Dots For Vellum or Vellum Bond
  9. Scissors, Cutting Mat, Craft Knife, Ruler & pencil

Cut out a shape from the plain card as per the measurements and shape shown in the shape plan below. We’ve used plain white card for our pop up card but you can use any colour you like. The shape measures 145mm from top to bottom and 290mm across from tip to tip. The shape plan is not to scale, it’s just to give you an idea of how to cut out and measure the shape.

Click on the image below for a larger view of the shape plan.

Pop Up Card Shape Plan

Use your creasing board and bone creaser to make crease lines on your card shape where there are red and green dotted lines shown in the shape plan. The creases shown by red dotted lines should be folded down and the green dotted line should be folded up the other way from the red dotted lines.

If you don’t have a creasing board you can ever so lightly score the fold lines using a ruler and the tip of your craft knife and then make the folds.

Once you have folded all the creases push the card flat, one of the diamond shapes in the shape plan then forms the base of the card and the other diamond is the front of the card.

Cut out a square from the mid green mulberry tissue paper the same size as the diamond front of the card blank. Stick the mulberry tissue paper to cover the front of the card using invisi dots for vellum, vellum bond or another similar glue that is designed to stick very fine thin papers without showing through.

Stick strips of a decorative border from the gold various borders peel off sheet to each of the four edges of the front of the card, on top of the green mulberry tissue paper.

Apply a ‘Merry Christmas’ wording sticker from the diamond gold Merry Christmas peel off sheet to the top corner of the card.

Finally use sticky foam pads to mount the red nosed reindeer/bell topper underneath the Merry Christmas wording.

You can write your personal message anywhere inside the card or on the bottom of the base.

Try making your own envelope using plain white paper and Lick and Stick Envelope Glue if you want a remoistenable lick and stick flap on the envelope for sealing it.

Here is a picture of the finished card laid out flat:

Card Idea by Jill

Layered Flower Punch Card

This funky bright and cheerful flowers card is great for cheering somebody up. It can be used for any occasion or with the addition of a wording peel off sticker you can specify an occasion if you wish.

What you will need to make this card:

  1. 7″ x 5″ white card blank
  2. Super Duper Lever Craft Punch – Flower
  3. Super Lever Craft Punch – Flower
  4. Large Lever Craft Punch – Flower
  5. Regular Lever Craft Punch – Flower
  6. Tangerine handmade mulberry paper
  7. Yellow handmade mulberry paper
  8. Emerald green handmade mulberry paper
  9. Pale Yellow handmade mulberry paper
  10. Dark green handmade mulberry paper
  11. Mini flower brads primary
  12. Craft Glue
  13. Sticky Foam Pads
  14. Craft knife, scissors, ruler & cutting mat

How to make this card:

Cut two 15cm long x 2cm wide strips and two 20cm long x 2cm wide strips from the tangerine handmade mulberry paper. Next lay the strips on your craft mat in a rectangle with the corners overlapping and secure with low tac masking tape, using the lines on your craft mat to ensure the strips are all straight and are in a perfect rectangle. The rectangle should measure 128mm (5″) wide x 177mm (7″) long. Take your craft knife and ruler and cut diagonally across each corner cutting through both layers of handmade mulberry paper. This should leave you with a frame with four perfect mitered corners. Click on the image below to see step by step pictures.

Stick the frame to the card blank using double sided sticky tape along all the underside edges of the handmade mulberry paper.

From the dark green handmade mulberry paper use scissors to cut out the 3 flower stems. Stem 1 needs to bend to the left and should be about 6.5cm in length. Stem 2 needs to bend slightly to the left and should be about 11.5cm in length. Stem 3 needs to bend to the right and should be about 8cm in length.

Using the four sizes of flower craft punch, punch out flowers from the different colours of handmade mulberry paper. 1 x Super Duper flower from the yellow paper, 1 x Super flower from the emerald green paper, 1 x Super flower from the pale yellow paper, 2 x Large flowers from the tangerine paper , 1 x Large flower from the emerald green paper, 2 x Regular flowers from the pale yellow paper and 1 x Regular flower from the emerald green paper.

Take the longest stem and the super duper yellow flower and using glue, stick them to the card blank so the flower overlaps the top left of the tangerine frame and covers the top of the stem. The stem should end at the top of the bottom edge of the card frame, trim stem if necessary. Using sticky foam pads stick a super emerald green flower on top of the yellow flower and a tangerine large flower on top of the green flower. Push a green flower brad through the centre of a regular pale yellow flower and layer this on the top again with a foam pad.

Next take the super pale yellow flower and the middle length stem, sticking the flower so it overlaps the right hand side of the tangerine frame and again covers the top of the stem. The stem should end on the right of the other stem at the bottom as before. Use sticky foam pads to stick a large tangerine flower on top of the pale yellow flower. Push a yellow flower brad through the centre of a regular emerald green flower and layer this on the top with a sticky pad.

Stick the last shorter stem to the left hand side of the longest stem and using sticky foam pads stick a large emerald green flower to the top of the stem so the flower slightly overlaps the orange frame on the left. Push an orange flower brad through the centre of a regular pale yellow flower and layer this on the top of the green flower with a sticky pad.

Finally cut a couple of leaves out of the dark green handmade mulberry paper and stick these either side of the three stems.

Tips:

You might find it easier if you lay the stems and bottom layer flowers on the card blank first before sticking them down so you are happy with the positioning first. If you prefer you can use the daisy craft punches in all the same sizes as this would look great too.

Card Idea by Jill