Every year, one special holiday comes around filled with laughter, a few scares, wonderful hand made costumes made by mom, but especially the joys of Halloween.
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| Halloween greeting cards |
To make the card:
1. Either purchase colored blank cards, or cut our card to size out of your choice of card stock.
2. Use a foundation piece of decorative paper that fits our style of Halloween. For this card, the embellishments are a bit more cartoon like, so the back ground is a little more animated. Cut foundation to size.
3. Using an awl, skewer, or something to poke a hole in each corner, place card on top of cork and punch holes so that you can attach brads of choice. For this card, I chose to use colored brads with a bit of glitter to add some shimmer to the card.
4. Either use purchased embellishments or create your own accents using a stencil, stamp or paper cutting machine. Attach to your card.
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| Option One: Simple Inside of Card |
6. Cut out the same size of letters you did in step five in patterned paper to match the stile of your card. Attach to letters used in step five using double sided foam to "raise" letters off their individual background letters.
7. Take a dark back ground paper and cut a strip of a wide width, approximately two inches.
8. Use bright green or a color that will "pop" off the paper and cut slightly smaller than the strip from step seven.
9. Like step eight use a color not as bright as that used in step eight, but lighter than that chosen in step seven.
10. Layer and attach steps seven through nine together and attach to inside of card.
11. Use the letters from step six and attach to layered strip from step nine.
Option One
Option One
12 a. Write a spooky message or Halloween greeting, put in an envelope, seal with a kiss and put it in the mail.
Option Two
12 b. Using a Halloween themed card pack, select a patterned paper and cut to the exact size as the inside face of your card. Attach.
13 b. Attach your strip created in steps five through eleven.
14 b. Using a neutral colored background paper, cut a rectangle slightly smaller than the remaining area of the inside of your card. Attach.
Note: You can punch holes in each corner of your rectangle in step fourteen b using an awl, skewer or needle, and use the same colored brads used in step three to attach to card.
15. Write your sweet Halloween message or use as an invitation to your Halloween party, put in your envelope, slap on your stamp, and put in the mail!
Option Two
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| Option Two: Spooky Inside of Card |
13 b. Attach your strip created in steps five through eleven.
14 b. Using a neutral colored background paper, cut a rectangle slightly smaller than the remaining area of the inside of your card. Attach.
Note: You can punch holes in each corner of your rectangle in step fourteen b using an awl, skewer or needle, and use the same colored brads used in step three to attach to card.
15. Write your sweet Halloween message or use as an invitation to your Halloween party, put in your envelope, slap on your stamp, and put in the mail!
Happy Halloween!
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