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Bottle Card + Template – First Posted: Saturday, January 23, 2010

I needed to make a 50th birthday card for a man and was a bit stuck for what to do so I had a look on Splitcoast Stampers and found this card which I thought was great and have used as my inspiration.

I made my own Template, I sized it to 8″ tall and 4″ wide in Word to ensure it would fit into a DL sized envelope then printed it out onto printer paper. I cut round the shape then placed it onto my Card with the dotted line along the score line in the card, drew around it with a pencil and cut along my pencil line.

I decorated the front of my card with different gold card pieces cut from various Spellbinders dies, I added his date of birth in the lower panel which I followed up with ‘A rather good vintage’ on the inside and printed ‘Oldus Manus’ on the top oval to inject some humour.

bottle card inside

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Bottle template

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3 tier Parcel Card + Template – First Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2010

Todays card is a taller version of yesterdays 2 parcel card, this time comprising of 3 parcels. I sized the template to approx 6.5 inches high which made it approx 3.5 inches wide and my finished card will fit comfortably into a DL sized envelope.

I followed the same method as before, I aligned my template to the RIGHT hand side in Word, I scored along the dotted lines and folded to form my card then cut around the other 3 sides with my craft knife and scissors. I paper pieced the front of the card remembering to add ribbon before sticking my sections down and added my sentiments on little tags.

3 parcel card

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3 Parcel card template

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Parcel Shaped Card + Template – First Posted: Friday, January 15, 2010

Todays card is a perfect excuse to break out the ribbon and is a handy way to use up your scraps of patterned papers that if you’re anything like me you can’t bear to throw away.

I inserted my image into Word and sized it to 4 inches wide, the important part is to align the image to the far RIGHT hand side of the page before you print it onto your card stock. I scored along the dotted line and folded to form my card and trimmed round the outside edge of the other 3 sides to form the shape using scissors and a craft knife. I measured the 4 areas on the front of the card and cut the 2 larger ones from co-ordinating patterned paper and the 2 smaller ones from purple card, I added some matching ribbon and attached to my card. I printed my sentiment onto lilac card and punched it out using a tag punch and layered onto more of the purple card, I added an eyelet and attached to my ribbon with some embroidery thread. The finished card will fit into a standard sized envelope.

2 parcel card

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2 Parcel card template