Craft Projects

Free online craft projects for card making

Step-by-step instructions for making ladies cards,
birthday cards for women & mother's day cards.

Easy Watercolour Card

Products used:
Top Score board
Amos Super Stik
Marvy brush markers
Craft Knife
Peel Off Stickers
Foam Pads
A4 card stock
Pieces of card to create a topper
Matching backing paper
Rubber stamp of your choice
A water-spraying bottle

1. Score the A4 cardstock on the A5 card line on the board
to give your card a crisp fold line.      

2. Colour the stamp of your choice using a light-coloured Marvy Brush Marker.  

3. Once you have coloured the whole stamp, take a water spray bottle and
"spritz" (spray with a fine mist) it a couple of times, then stamp down
on the right hand side of the card several times in different directions
to create a background.

4.  Cut a contrasting coloured background paper to cover the left half
of the card and stick it in place. 

5. Place a peel-off border of your choice down the middle
of the card to hide the join of the background paper.

6. Now you need to create a topper, again using the water colour technique,
 but this time use more colours to suit your chosen stamp.
Build the colours up & don't worry about the ink drying on the stamp,
as you will be spritzing the stamp with the water bottle again. 

7. As soon as you’ve spritzed it,
stamp it onto the card you chose for the topper.
Cut two pieces of contrasting card each slightly larger
than the one previous to border the stamped topper.

8. Stick the toppers together using the Amos Super Stik glue
and edge with the border peel offs.

9. Mount the topper onto your card with double-sided foam pads.

10. Finish the card off by adding a peel off sentiment to a spare piece
of the same card you used to mat and layer the topper.
Again use the double-sided foam pads to mount it to your card.
Finally, add a Peel Off butterfly to the edge of the topper..

Fashion Shoes Birthday Card

Card Making Materials used:

Adirondack Ink Pad (colour of your choice)
Silicone glue
Comfort-Grip Zision Knife
Foam pads
DST (Double sided tape)
Amos Super Stik Glue
A5 card blank
Sheet of card stock
Sheet of scrap paper
Contrasting card for layering
Rubber stamp (shoe design & background pattern)
Ribbon

1. Start by cutting 2 pieces of card to stamp onto and stamp a shoe design
(or your favourite stamped image) a total of three times - twice onto the
card stock & once onto the scrap paper with the Adirondack ink pad.

2. Once you have stamped the image onto the scrap paper, cut out
the front of the shoe and also the front-facing part of the heel.
This will act as your masking template.

3. Place the masking template over the top of one of the shoes
that you stamped onto your card stock and stamp over the holes
you cut out with a patterned stamp, e.g. an ornate corner stamp.

4. Continue to do the same for the second card so that both shoes
take on the pattern of your decorative stamp design.
Keep the masking template to use on similar cards in the future.
 (You can be sure that the minute you throw it away,
someone will ask you to make the same card for them!)

5. Cut out from the front facing heel and the shoe front from
one of the patterned shoes and lay them to one side for the moment.

Now you need to do some shading work on the remaining shoe.
Using a damp (not wet) brush, sweep the brush over the back part
of the shoe, catching the inked lines, which will pick up just enough
colour to shade the colourless parts of the shoe.
Once all of the shading on the shoe is complete, sweep the brush
underneath the shoe sole in a straight line, which will create a
shadow-effect below the shoe.

6. Take the pieces of the shoe you cut out and shape them
around your finger, just enough to curve them.

Using the silicone glue, dab a couple of dots on the back of
each piece & place them over the same pieces on the shaded shoe.
Don't press them down flat, as you want this to stand slightly off the shoe,
 which will give the shoe a 3-D effect on your card.
The silicone adhesive will take approximately 20 minutes to set.

7. Use alphabet stamps or peel off stickers to add your sentiment
("Birthday Wishoes", Happy Birthday, Thank You etc)

8. Now use the DTC (direct to card) inking technique to create
coloured edging around your card, which is done by taking the card
in one hand & the ink pad in the other and carefully dragging the
ink pad around the outer edges of the card.

9. Take a smaller shoe stamp (or a small design on a similar theme
to your larger design) and stamp down one edge of the A5 card
using the same coloured Adirondack ink pad that you originally used.

10. Finish the card by matting the shoe image with foam pads onto
a contrasting coloured card, sticking it down double sided tape &
adding a ribbon or a bow, stuck onto the card with Amos Super Stik.

Now that you have finished your beautiful handmade card,
sit back and enjoy a well-earned cuppa with a
Tunnock’s Milk Chocolate Tea Cake.