Homemade Card

Over the weekend I had a bridal shower to go to and when I woke up on Saturday I realized I didn't have a card.  This happens to me ALL the time! Oh, and I don't like to pay like four bucks for a card...or whatever they cost now.  So, I made one.

I had all of the materials around the house and here is what I used:

scissors

construction paper

mod podge

foam brush

paint chips

I knew I wanted to do some type of flower on the front, so I googled paper flower and this is what came up.  The tutorial was easy to follow, but it took me a couple of tries to figure it out.  I needed to make my strip to cut out wider and a bit shorter.  Then, I used mod podge to fold the very end of the flower (the outermost layer) and glue it to the part of the flower I would be placing down on the card as well as gluing some of the other layers together to be sure that it would hold up.  I ended up making three all together.  

After my flowers were finished I picked out some construction paper and paint chips I had on hand that I thought would go well with the color of my flowers.  The construction paper was an off white and the paint chips were a grayish midnighty blue (so specific right?). I took my construction paper and folded it in half (I think hamburger style, but I was never good with the whole hamburger/hotdog folding thing). Then, I cut along the fold and took one of the halves.  I then folded this in half and started on the paint chips.  I had some fairly long ones and decided to go for stripes.  I used two paint chips and cut them length wise about an inch thick and ended up deciding to use three stripes.

I put mod podge on the back of each of the stripes then lined one up with the top of the card, one with the bottom of the card, and placed the third one as close to the middle as possible.  Once this was mostly dried, I put mod podge on top of the whole front of the card.  After that dried I was almost done, all that was left was to glue the flowers on.  I picked an arrangement, put them in the top corner, and used mod podge to glue them down.  When it was done drying, the card was finished! The process was really easy and free!

I didn't have a way to put the card on the gift I was giving so I took some thin twine, looped it through the card, used a hole puncher to make a hole in the wrapping paper, then pulled the two ends through the hole and tied a bow.

Here's how it turned out.

Kasie