Card design with kraft cardboard

Instructions No. 1565

Instructions No. 1565

Self-designed cards always speak personally! Let yourself be inspired by these card creations for your own invitation, menu or greeting cards.

Quickly made

Anyone who wants to create individual cards for a personal occasion will be pleased with these ideas, because only requires only a few steps to create.

Select Motif paper and cut a sheet to fit the card or envelope format. For larger quantities of cards it is recommended to use a Paper cutting machine or even a professional Plotter to use.

Extra tip: Before you make invitation cards in large quantities, for example, it is advisable to make a sample card and use it as a template for your later works of art.

Combine & Punch

Combine different motif papers with each other on the vintage cards and envelopes

Punch out round circles and labels from motif and Kraft paper. Cut small Paper strips into lettering flags. These can be provided with handlettering or with a stamp with messages

Arrange & Glue

Arrange all the papers together with lace paper and other accessories on your card before sticking them on. Afterwards you glue the card:

With Handicraft glue or glue sticks, papers can be applied to large areas of the cards. For turbo tinkering, however, it may be sufficient to simply provide two paper edges of the cut-out motif card with double-sided Adhesive tape and thus fix it to Paper .

The lace paper can be glued on flat or with the glue stick. Small accessories should be applied with Glue pads or even with 3D adhesive pads. These fix solidly and give the design a great 3D effect.

Simply punched out

If you are looking for a spring-like design idea for cards and have a little more time for crafting, you will certainly enjoy a butterfly card: All butterflies are punched with motif punches

A circle is first punched out of cream-coloured Coloured paper . With handlettering the personal message - here "All the best" - is applied to this Paper . Who is uncertain in ornamental writings, can stamp alternatively a message

The butterflies are punched out in different sizes from different pastel-coloured clay papers.

The described Paper is glued in the middle of the kraft paper card. And around this message, big and small butterflies are now gradually applied according to personal taste. These are only glued to the butterfly body, so that the wings can be bent plastically upwards

Extra tip: Position the butterflies on the card so that they become darker in the pastel colour from the inside out or form a colour gradient.

Vary your personal card creation: use pastel-coloured double cards as a background, decorate them with Jute ribbon and tie your message to the card as a label - and you have already created a completely different, equally appealing look using the same production technique.