Handmade Card Techniques
Stamped-Style Card Designs With Homemade Stamps
Make your own stamps from craft foam, erasers, corks and bottle caps, then print repeat patterns for original handmade cards.
Handmade Card Techniques
The skills behind every card: choosing cardstock, cutting, scoring and folding, layering, dimension, pop-ups, and homemade stamps.
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Handmade Card Techniques
Dimensional Cards: Foam Adhesive, Raised Layers and Shadow
How to add real depth to a handmade card with foam adhesive, homemade spacers, curled paper and a raised window frame, without any pop-up mechanics.
Handmade Card Techniques
Pop-Up Card Basics: The Box Fold and the V-Fold
The two mechanisms behind most pop-up cards, explained step by step: the box fold cut across the center fold and the V-fold glued across it, plus how to keep both inside the closed card.
Handmade Card Techniques
Layering Cardstock: Mats, Borders and Clean Reveals
How to mat a card panel: the size of each layer, how to keep the borders even, which mat colors to choose, and when to use a double mat or an offset layer.
Handmade Card Techniques
How to Score and Fold a Card Without Cracking
Scoring presses a dent along the fold line so cardstock folds straight and does not crack. Here is how to score, fold and burnish a card base with simple tools.
Handmade Card Techniques
How to Cut Cardstock Cleanly: Card Sizes and Straight Edges
Straight, square cuts with scissors, a craft knife or a paper trimmer, plus the measurements for A2 card bases, mats and other common card sizes.
Handmade Card Techniques
Cardstock for Card Making: Weights, Finishes and Grain
How to read paper weights, which cardstock suits card bases and which suits layers, and how finish, core and grain affect the finished card.