A-Z Card Making

A C E

CAS Cards Embellishments

Acrylic blocks CAS stands for Clean and The finsihing touches on a
Used to mount clear acrylic Simple. Cards are made card to make your card
or photpolymer stamps. with minimal layering and shine. Materials include
They are reusable. lots of white space. ribbon, gems, enamal dots
and glitter pens.
Alcohol Markers Colour Wheel
A colouring medium used to A colour circle showing how Embossing
colour stamped images. colours relate to each other. Techniques for adding
Available as a circular card texture to your paper or
circle it can help you card. Dry embossing raises
Aperture choose your colours.
A hole cut into card. It can or recesses designs on
be made with a craft knife paper. Heat embossing
and cutting mat or a shaped D produces a special effect on
die. your card with the use of a
Dies heat tool and embossing
B Shaped metal with a cutting powder.
edge enabling the
Blending production of multiple Embossing Folders
Technique to blend inks shapes and intricate A plastic folder with a
together to create a designs design on the inside. Paper
gradient or ombre effect. is placed on the inside and
Die Cutting the folder and paper are fed
The process of cutting with into a die cutting machine
the dies and a die cutting for an embossed image.
Bone Folder
A tool to fold and crease machine. Machines can be
paper or card. Usually manual or electronic.
made from plastic or teflon
Digi Stamps F
Brayer Downloadable black and
Tool to spread ink or paint white images that can be Fussy Cutting
onto paper, card or a gel edited with a photo editor. Cutting around a stamped
press image with scissors. It's
Dimension important when fussy
Burnish Adds depth to a card. cutting to move the paper
Technique used with Layers are raised with foam not the scissors. It takes
coloured pencils to blend pads or tape to created some practice!
colours together. added dimension.

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G K M

Gelli Plate Kissing Stamps Mica Powder

Used for monoprinting with Technique used with solid Creates a vibrant shimmery
ink or acrylic paint. image stamp and a larger glow to a card when added
stamp with a patterned to paint and texture paste.
image.
Guillotine
Mixed Media
A tool for cutting paper and L
The use of different crafting
card with a metal blade built
materials or mediums to
into a plastic arm. Usually Layering Dies create the finished product.
self sharpening. A die set that has several Often used to create texture
elements that are layered on cards.
H together to create a
Heat Gun complete image or
Monochromatic
An essential card makers background.
The use of a single colour
tool for heat embossing. with different shades, tones
Much hotter than a hair Layering Stamps
and tints.
dryer. Clear stamps used to
produce a dimensional
image without any adding N
I any bulk to your card.

Ink Pads Negative Space

Layering Stencils The outline left on the card
Available in a variety of Stencils created with
colours, shapes and sizes. from a die cut.
multiple cut outs to use
Commonly used types of together to create one
ink pads are dye based inks image. O
pigment inks and
embossing inks. Ombre
M A technique to create a
Inserts gradient background using
Matting inks with blending brushes
An additional sheet of paper
Backing card or paper to a or a brayer.
or card added to the inside
card layer. Adds a frame or
of the card. Smaller than
border to the card base or
the card base it gives space P
focal point.
for the message and
sentiment. Paper Piecing
Masks A technique that uses
Interactive Cards Provide protection to an patterned paper over a
Fun cards that involve area from ink when stamped image to add
movement when opened. stamping and blending. colour and pattern.

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P S V

Patterned Paper Shaker Cards Vellum

Sold in paper pads or Cards with an window filled A luxury translucent paper
individual sheets it is used with sequins, beads or often used with wedding
to add backgrounds and glitter covered with clear cards.
interest to cards. acetate so the card can be
shaken. W
Punches
Small tools for cutting paper Washi Tape
and card. Available in Sketches A decorative tape that is
many shapes and sizes. Card designs showing a easy to tear an stick. Used
card layout. to add patterns and
decorative accents to cards.
R
Stamps Z
Reinkers Used to produce an image.
Ink refills to reink ink pads. Made from either rubber, Zentangles
Can also be used for card clear acrylic or Patterns with a combination
making techniques. photopolymer. of dots,lines, curves,
S-curves and orbs. Add
Stencils tangles to your stamped
Resist Thin plastic sheets with images and see the fun
A technique produced by patterns, images or letter results.
stamping embossing ink cutouts.
and heat embossing with
embossing powder. Blend
T
over the image with ink and
the image will resist the ink. Tape Runner
A roll of adhesive tape
S encased into a plastic shell
that fits neatly into your
Scoreboard hand. They can be
A plastic platform with permanent or
grooves - measured in respositionable.
either imperial or metric
measurement. Used for
Texture
scoring paper and card.
Creates dimension and
depth. Use embossed card,
Sentiments embossing paste, fabric, die
The message you are cuts and embellishments.
sending with the card.

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 Making a Card
Take a blank sheet of International A4 card or US Letter size card. This
will create two blank cards.

This sheet can orientated in either in Portrait or Landscape

Portrait Landscape

Using the blank card in the Landscape Position cut the card in half.

Fold each half in half again to create

your basic card shape using a bone
folder for a sharp edge. The cards will
be either...

Side Fold Card Top Fold Card

Portrait Landscape

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Now turn a blank piece of card into the Portrait position.

Cut in half and then fold each in half again.

You will create either

Side Fold Card Top Fold Card

Landscape Portrait

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Card Sizes and Layers
Cards can be made in any size you want! It all depends on the size of
your paper.

The most commonly used paper sizes are International A4 in the the UK
and the rest of the world and US Letter in the US and Canada.

Whether you use A4 or US Letter each sheet will create two card bases
when divided in half.

The table below outlines the measurements.

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When creating your card it is easier to use a base layer for your stamping
or colouring as if you make a mistake you aren't wasting so much card.

Your first layer can cover the whole of the card front or be slightly smaller
to add a frame or a border.

The most commonly used layer is either 1/4" if using imperial

measurements or 0.5cm if using metric measurements.

You can have as many layers as you want. Depending on the colours
chosen multiple layers can look very effective.

The table below outlines the layers for the different countries if
using a 1/4" layers.....

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 If using A4 or US Letter sizes card or patterned paper the easist option is
to cut your sheet into quarters.

Once in quarters trim to your card layer size.

For patterned paper the left over strip can used to decorate the inside of
the card.

Sentiment

Layer sizes are not set in stone as you get more experienced experiement
with different layer sizes.

Larger backing layers

create a frame and
draw you into the focal
point of the card.

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For square cards the most economical way to create card bases is to use
12" x 12" card stock.

A 12" x 12" piece of can make eight 3" 3" cards, four 4" x 4" cards and two
6" x 6" cards.

3" x 3" cards

Cut card bases 6" x 3"

Provides 8 card bases

4" x 4" cards

Cut card bases 8" x 4"

Provides 4 card bases

6" x 6" cards

Cut card bases 12" x 6"

Provides 2 card bases

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