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Heart & Rosebud Invitations

This stylish wedding invitation idea is shown here in two different colour schemes burgundy/cream and ivory/white. These invitations are quick and easy to replicate which is good if you have a lot to make and of course they have that luxurious look that is a must have for the invitations to your big day!

Burgundy Heart & Rosebud Wedding InvitationIvory Heart & Rosebud Wedding Invitation

To make these cards you will need:

  1. Woodware super scalloped square craft punch
  2. Sticky foam pads
  3. Hi-Tack original all purpose very sticky glue
  4. Wedding invitation peel off stickers in either gold or silver
  5. Plain inserts for A6 cards in either cream or white (optional)
  6. A6 cream or A6 white card blanks
  7. Pearlised cream / ivory / white card
  8. 2 cm padded material hearts
  9. Ribbon rosebuds
  10. Ribbon bows

Directions:

Take the Woodware super scalloped square punch and punch two card squares for each invitation you need to make (use cream card for the burgundy/cream design or white card for the ivory/white design). Attach two scalloped squares with sticky foam pads to the front of each card blank, positioning them as shown in the pictures.

Use the Hi-Tack original all purpose very sticky glue to stick the material heart to the centre of the top square and the ribbon rosebud and ribbon bow to the bottom square. The glue you use here does need to be a very sticky craft glue to ensure the embellishments are secure.

Finally apply a ‘Wedding Invitation’ peel off wording sticker. You can replace the peel off sticker wording with a wedding invitation wording banner instead.

To finish the card off you can print your own wording for the inside of the card onto plain inserts for A6 cards now available in either white or cream and then once folded insert them into the card blank using a strip of double sided sticky tape or a small amount of glue along the fold line of the insert. Tip – Once your wording is ready to print do some test prints first to make sure you have lined everything up correctly.

Make all matching Wedding Stationery, simply by replacing the Wedding Invitation wording with Evening Invitation, Order of Service, Menu, Thank You etc.

Card ideas by Janine

Christmas Tree Peel Off Card

You can make really effective Christmas cards using peel off picture stickers. You can enhance the effect of the peel off stickers that you use in your projects by adding some colour to the the peel off picture. Also if you stick the sticker onto separate card, cut it out and then mount it onto your card you get a nice raised 3D effect making the finished card more interesting than if you stick the sticker straight onto the card surface.

Christmas Tree Peel Off Card

What you will need to make this card:

  1. Small square (120mm x 120mm) pale cream card blank
  2. Christmas Trees Peel Off Sheet – Gold
  3. Some separate plain cream or white card
  4. Coloured felt tip pens
  5. Craft knife, decoupage scissors & ruler
  6. Sticky foam tape/pads

How to make:

Remove a Christmas tree picture sticker from the peel off backing sheet, let the sticker relax for a minute on the end of your craft knife, this will allow it to regain shape if it has stretched and then stick it to the plain cream (or white) card (not the card blank).

Use felt tips pens to colour in the peel off centre sections in appropriate colours. Colours used here are green tree, dark brown tree trunk, yellow star, red/blue tree decorations, orange/purple/blue gift wrapped presents under the tree.

Next take the decoupage scissors and carefully cut round the outside edge of the coloured in Christmas tree peel off image taking particular care around the candles. Then use sticky foam tape/pads to attach the tree to the centre of the card blank.

Then for the four corners of the card remove four of the double holly leaves picture stickers from the peel off backing sheet, again allow each sticker to relax for a minute on the end of your craft knife to regain shape and then stick each one to the plain cream (or white) card (not the card blank).

Use felt tips pens to colour in the holly leaf centre sections in green and the holly berries in red. Use the decoupage scissors again to carefully cut out each set of holly leaves. Then use a small amount of sticky foam tape/pads to attach each of the holly pictures to the four corners of the card blank using a ruler to line them up with each other.

We have not used a sentiment on this card but you could easily add a peel off wording sticker to the bottom centre of the card if you wished, you would just need to place the tree picture a little bit higher to allow for this.

Card idea by Janine