Sept 07 Card Making Tips

Sept 07 Newsletter Card Making Tips

1. When cutting sticky tape use a separate pair of old scissors. That way you are not constantly cleaning your craft scissors to stop them sticking to your work.
From Gill, Kent.

2. Apply your peel off stickers to your project and then colour the centre holes with different colour metallic markers for a great stained glass window type effect.
From Sue, Cumbria.

3. Stick your peel off stickers on the same colour card blank, i.e. Gold peel off onto a gold card blank for an embossed effect.
From Chris, Middlesex.

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New Home Peel Off Card

This bright and cheerful new home card shows an easy way to enhance the use of peel off stickers in your card projects by adding colour to the centre of the peel off picture.

New Home Peel Off Card

What you will need to make this card:

  1. Small square (120mm x 120mm) pale cream card blank
  2. New home peel off sheet – gold
  3. Some separate plain cream card
  4. Coloured felt tip pens
  5. Mini glitter foam flowers
  6. Craft knife and/or decoupage scissors
  7. Ruler
  8. Hi-Tack original all purpose very sticky glue
  9. Sticky foam pads/tape

How to make:

Remove a house 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 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 bushes & tree leaves, dark brown tree trunks, light brown house walls, yellow windows, grey house roof and red door. Tip – using two different shades of green on different sections of the tree greenery is more effective than just one shade.

Next take the craft knife or scissors and carefully cut round the outside edge of the coloured in peel off image. Then use sticky foam pads/tape to attach the picture to the centre of the card blank.

Take the wording peel off stickers ‘Welcome to your New Home’ and stick them to the card blank above and below the house picture as shown. Allow each sticker to relax for a moment before applying it as before. Use a ruler to evenly space the words and ensure that they are straight.

Finally take 5 yellow flowers from the mini glitter foam flowers pack and using the craft glue stick them randomly around the card blank.

Card idea by Janine