Change of Address Cards by Sarah May

Hi everyone, Sarah’s turn on the blog today – I’m using it to share with you the card design I came up with to let mine and my husband’s extended family know ‘we have moved’. It was good practice at batch-making ahead of Christmas cards!

Process

Usually I buy pre-made card blanks but I wanted these to be dinky and smaller than any blanks I had to hand so I made my own to fit little square brown paper envelopes (actually wage packets that I picked up in a stationery shop!). Measure the envelope, cut kraft card to be a few mm smaller on each edge to leave wiggle room for getting it in and out, score down the middle and fold.
Lay out 4 arrow stamps on an acrylic block and build up a repeat pattern across the front of your card stamping in your 1^stcolour of ink, cleaning off your stamps then stamping beside and below in the 2^ndcolour, beside and below each of those in the 3^rdcolour, then back to your 1^st.
Diecut a house shape from the middle of the card front, and glue it inside through the window left by the cut.