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Home Sweet Home Card

This is a bright and cheerful card that is perfect to welcome anyone to their new home.

Home Sweet Home Card

  1. A6 cream card blank
  2. Pale yellow handmade mulberry paper
  3. Home sweet home die-cut embellishment
  4. Primary mini flower brads
  5. New Home peel off sheet – Gold
  6. Double sided sticky tape
  7. Craft glue
  8. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat

How to make this card:

Measure and cut out a 80mm wide x 90mm high rectangle from the pale yellow handmade mulberry paper.

Along the bottom edge of this mulberry rectangle measure and make a small hole 10mm up from the bottom edge and 10mm in from the left hand side and then from that hole make more small holes at roughly 12mm gaps all 10mm up from the bottom. You should end up with a row of 6 small holes with the first and last hole being about 10mm in from either side. Push a mini flower brad through each of the holes and bend the prongs back behind. We have used 6 different colour brads but you can use whichever colours you prefer.

Use craft glue to stick the home sweet home die-cut embellishment to the muberry rectangle above the row of brads.

Next use double sided sticky tape on all four edges of the mulberry rectangle to stick it to the centre of the card blank.

Finally from the gold new home peel off sheet apply the words ‘Welcome to your’ to the top left of the card, the words ‘New Home’ to the bottom right of the card and a small key to the bottom left and top right hand corners.

Card Idea by Janine

Peach Decoupage Card

This card is a lovely simple to make card and the shading done with chalks really looks great in conjunction with the floral decoupage image.

Below is a picture of the finished card, further down there is a picture taken at an angle to show off the flower decoupage layers.

Peach decoupage card

What you will need to make this card:

  1. 7″ x 5″ white card blank
  2. Peach Mulberry Tissue Paper
  3. Die-Cut Decoupage Sheet – Floral 122
  4. Vertical Happy Birthday Peel Off Sheet – Gold
  5. Flower Corners & Simple Borders Peel Off Sheet – Gold
  6. Decorating Chalks
  7. Glue Dots – Invisi Dots for Vellum
  8. Sticky foam pads
  9. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat

Directions to make:

Cover the top left hand corner and the bottom right hand corner of the card blank with peach mulberry tissue paper leaving a diagonal strip that is uncovered in the middle that measures approximately 60mm wide. Use Invisi Dots for Vellum to stick the mulberry tissue paper as these do not show through the fine paper.

Use a simple wavy border from the Gold Flower Corners & Simple Borders Peel Off Sheet along the inner edges of the mulberry tissue paper, trimming to required length.

Use a peachy coloured decorating chalk and either using your finger, a sponge tip applicator or even a cotton bud smudge the chalk all along the uncovered strip of card blank. Make the chalk darker nearer the peel off border edges and lighter in the centre of the strip.

Push out all of the ‘A’ sections from the Floral 122 die-cut decoupage sheet and use sticky foam pads to layer them in the correct order onto the centre of the chalked strip on the card. The image will overlap the mulberry tissue sections in places.

Finally remove a ‘Happy’ and a ‘Birthday’ sticker from the gold vertical Happy Birthday peel off sheet and apply the stickers to the bottom right hand section of the card.

Peach decoupage card flat

Card Idea by Jill