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!

 

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Diecut a house shape from the middle of the card front, and glue it inside through the window left by the cut.

Supplies to get you there:

STAMP

Heffy Doodle Interactively Yours Stamp Set

 

INK

Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Oxide Wilted Violet

Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Oxide Cracked Pistachio

Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass

 

DIE

House shape

 

CARD AND PAPER

Bazzill Basics Classic Kraft Cardstock

 

ADHESIVES

TombowMono Multi Liquid Glue

 

TOOLS

Lawn Fawn Acrylic Blocks

Fiskars A4 Paper Trimmer

Tonic Mini Guillotine