Making a Card

I like reading blogs that show you how they make something, especially if it is not the kind of thing you do yourself, like making a beautiful cake, or some art or even something refurbished like the bears and toys as seen over at Pollykayandsidders So I thought today I will go through the process of how I put a card together - interesting maybe?  If not, I'll let you move on.

First I find an image that I like.
Have a little think what I want to
do with it.

Then I make some rough drawings
and finally finish with the one that I
am going to do - some bits may
change later when I assemble the
card if it doesn't look right or isn't balanced
(OCD again)

In this instance I wanted to do some
bunting along the top.  So with the aid
of the computer made some triangles,
coloured and patterned them, resized
them to fit across the size of card I will be using.

Then it was time to choose a font for
the words - sometimes this can take
ages till it looks right.

So the card is now printed with the
bunting and the logo on the bottom.  The sentiment is printed and the picture printed and cut out.  I found some matching linen card and cut out two circles.










The birthday sentiment has been cut out

and is about to have two rivets put in the ends

The card is scored and folded using the
brilliant scor-pal which has been one
of the best buys ever giving a very nice
score line down the middle.

Then mark each side of the card ready to cut to fit the envelope.

Cut the three sides to fit the
envelope

Gather all necessary bits -
double sided tape, glue, foam pads, ruler,
pencil - lights, camera and action!!

All is ready now to assemble the card.

A simple card and a simple design - but still takes time and effort to produce.

The finished item can be seen in my next blog.........