Wrapping Paper Cards

 

5 easy to make cards using wrapping paper.

Do you find yourself watching people opening gifts thinking, that's a really pretty piece of wrapping paper? I am a dreadful hoarder, so I am afraid I do. I open presents neatly to save a beautiful piece of paper for a project. What led to this weeks blog was some absolutely beautiful wrapping paper that we had for mothers day. I then wondered how best to turn small amounts of wrap into a lovely card you'd be pleased to send.

This particular paper came from our local garden centre and was quite thick. You may need to glue some wrapping paper to a piece of card first so it holds it's shape when you cut it. This is particularly important if you intend to raise it off the card with double sided foam pads. I always glue the paper to the card first then cut rather than cut the paper first then glue to card to re-cut as this doesn't always ensure you are glued right to the edges.

My examples below are to give you inspiration as you are unlikely to have the same wrapping paper, however there are lots of really lovely paper out there and you can focus your cutting on particular images or colours in your paper.

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Hello Spring Tic Tacs

 

Make a lovely little spring gift by making a spring cover for a pack of tic tac's

On a recent walk, my son finished off some tic tac's from a snowman decorated box I made previously (Click here to see that blog). Anyway, he suggested I made one for Easter. I am up for a challenge so here is this weeks blog.

It was a little tricky to come up with a design where I could cut out part of the picture so the tic tacs could be seen through. I am pleased with the result and so was my son :)

My image of a bunny rabbit sitting in a pot came from Lili of the Valley. In the 'You will need' section below it shows you where you can purchase this from. However you may already have a stamp with a similar image you could use instead. The main reason for my blog this week is to show you how you can adjust the size of a computer image to print it for a project. I normally use publisher to do my picture adjustments but I know not everyone has access to this program, so I show you how to do the adjustments in Inkscape, a free package that you can download.

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Special Delivery Easter Card

 

Use Lawn Fawns Special Delivery stamp and die set plus the waving pull tab starter set to make this cute interactive Easter Card

I like to be able to use a stamp and die set for many different cards, so today I am using the Special Delivery stamp and die set by Lawn Fawn to make an Easter card. I previously used it to make a valentines card (click here to see this blog if you missed it).

How cute is that chick carrying his basket of Easter eggs? You can change what the bird is carrying and make it a birthday card or graduation card.

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Cup of Cheer

 

Make a gate fold card sending a cup of cheer

Cup of Christmas is a Christmas stamp set by Stampin up, but here I have used it to make a birthday card. It's great when you can find several uses for one stamp set :)

My gatefold card is uneven, larger side on the left and smaller on the right but it's a great way of making a card when you have smaller images.

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MUM Cut out card

 

Use a little bit of paper cutting to make this pretty mothers day card

I printed the word 'MUM' on some paper and then cut it out to make this card. You could use dies to cut out letters or even a computer attached cutting machine if you have one. I used the relief so you can see the pretty paper through the letters that have been cut out. Don't throw out the letters, these can be used as mats to stamp around (click here to see a card made with a mat).

I have made this into a Mum card, but actually you could make a card with any word and hence for any occasion.

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