Category Archives: Dad/Fathers Day

Green/White Cricket Card

This is a lovely card idea for a male relation / friend or a cricket fanatic and can be used for any occasion. If you want to make the card for a specific occasion simply add a peel off sticker or greetings banner horizontally or even vertically anywhere on the dark green handmade mulberry paper frame.

What you will need to make this card:

  1. White 7″x5″ card blank
  2. Die-Cut Decoupage Sheet – Cricket
  3. Dark green handmade mulberry paper
  4. Decorating chalks
  5. Sponge dauber
  6. Low tack stencil/masking tape
  7. Double sided sticky tape
  8. Sticky foam pads
  9. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat

How to make this card:

Cut two 15cm long x 2.5cm wide strips and two 20cm long x 2.5cm wide strips from the dark green 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 around 11.5cm wide x 16.5cm 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 (we have used orange handmade mulberry paper here as it shows up better in the photos).

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

Next use the sponge dauber and some bright green chalk to make a green coloured border along the inside of the frame. Use a ruler to ensure a crisp straight edge on the card blank inside the frame. Allow the chalk to overlap the frame as this makes a nice lighter green highlight effect on the inside edge of the frame.

Finally press out all of the image ‘A’ sections from the cricket die-cut decoupage sheet and layer them in the correct order on the centre of the card blank (inside the frame) using sticky foam pads.

Card Idea by Jill

White Car Great Dad Card

The occasion has not been specified on this card and so it can be used for Father’s Day, for a birthday card for Dad or just to tell your Dad how great he is! Change the peel off word from ‘Dad’ to something else like ‘Uncle’ or ‘Brother’ to make the card for another relation.

Shown below is the finished card, further down there is a picture taken at an angle to show the decoupage layers.

Silver/White Car Great Dad Card

Items used to make this card:

  1. A6 Luxury Pearl White Card Blank
  2. White pearlised card
  3. Die-Cut Decoupage Sheet – Cars
  4. Family Mix 1 Peel Off Sheet – Silver for the words ‘To a Great’
  5. Family Mix 2 Peel Off Sheet – Silver for the word ‘Dad’
  6. Sticky foam pads
  7. Craft knife, pencil, ruler & cutting mat

Directions to make:

Measure and cut out a 13cm x 2cm strip from the white pearlised card.

Remove the words ‘To a Great’ from the silver Family Mix 1 peel off sheet and the word ‘Dad’ from the silver Family Mix 2 peel off sheet. Stick the words spaced evenly along the white card strip using a ruler or a straight edge to ensure you apply the words straight.

Push all of the image ‘C’ sections out of the decoupage sheet. Turn the card blank to landscape / tent fold orientation and using sticky foam pads layer the decoupage sections onto the top centre of the card blank.

Finally stick the peel off wording card strip to the bottom centre of the card blank using more sticky foam pads.

Silver/White Car Great Dad Card Flat

Card Idea by Janine