Welcome to day nine of the 30 mixed
media cards using your craft supplies at
home. No specialist card makers
required. So today we're making this
card together and as you can see quite
simple, quite straightforward, very easy
to adapt. So let's get started.
I'm just using an ordinary piece of card
folded in half or you could use card
blanks if you prefer. And I'm going to
start by adding some washi tape around
the edge. Now you can use these really
well in cards. It's so easy to use. Um,
I do recommend you have a look at some
different washi tapes. You can get so
many different patterns, different
colors.
Just so easy to use. And all I'm going
to do here is just put one strip of it
down the side near the fold. And I'll
just trim the top and the bottom. And
you can see it's immediately got that
effect, that little bit of drama. So
definitely good for lots of cards.
And then it's simply a case of getting
some circles. And you can see mine have
got little crimped edges because I've
got a little um punch. That's the word
I'm looking for. But you just need to
cut out some little circles of some nice
paper that you've got. So this is great
for using up scraps of paper or thin
card. And just glue them in place. I'm
just using a glue stick. You could um
use any glue you've got. And for your
circles, you could draw around anything
you've got in your house. I mean, what
about the washi tape? We could have
drawn around those around the inside,
but I'm just sitting them on there and
putting them in a nice curve. I just
think that's quite pretty. And then to
make them look a little bit like
flowers, I'm going to add some centers.
And I'm going to use buttons. Now, my
top tip for buttons is to use hot melt
or cool melt glue. Now, I'm using cool
melt glue. The clue is there. It's just
like a hot melt glue gun, but the glue
melts at a slightly lower temperature,
so you're less likely to burn your
fingers. Um, so simple to just put some
buttons on and they do make great flower
centers. And you can see for this card,
we're nearly there. And some of the
cards have done a lot of detailing and a
lot of different techniques. Kept this
one nice and simple. And I'm using the
greeting thinking of you. You can
download all the greetings I'm using in
this series for free from my website.
There'll be a link in the description
below and on the screen. And I'm just
going to stick it on with some little
foam pads. I like to use three because I
think it holds it up nicely, stops it
getting squashed if it goes in the post.
And then just going to position that. So
you can see this is a really simple card
that you can adapt and make your own.
And anybody would love to receive that.
So good luck with your card and hope I
see you in the next video for the next
card in the series of 30.