Fold your envelope, using a bone folder for sharp creases. Turn the envelope 180 degrees and repeat. Align the long right hand side score line with 3” and cut. Get out your trimmer and place your envelope vertically in the trimmer. The resulting envelope won’t close because the long flaps are too big.

Repeat until all four sides are punched and scored. Push the button and score the envelope at score line A. Turn your paper counter-clockwise and line up the already-scored line with the left score groove. Push the big button, and, taking care not to move the paper, score a line in the envelope score line A on your right. Place the left edge of your paper at 3.125'”. Go back to the left fold-out and find out your starting point. Place your paper in the punch with the outside of the envelope facing you. My paper is pretty light, so I’m using the pretty side out.įold out the scoreline extender on the bottom right of the punch board. Cut your paper into a 9.75” square and decide which side you want on the outside. That means you need to use a 12 by 12 paper, because letter sized paper is only 8.5” wide. For a card that is 8.5 by 3.5”, it needs to be 9.75” square. Start by folding out the left side of the punch board to find out how big your paper needs to be. Finally I added the writing surface to the inside of the card and a matching mat on the very back of the card. Then I stacked and glued down the sentiment. If you fussy cut the outline without embossing, make sure that you don’t get any glue outside the front die cut, because it will show on the front of the card. This way it looks presentable when you open the card. I adhered it face down to the inside of the front of the card. To cover it up, I fussy cut the shape from the embossed die cut. The inside of the front looked messy with glue showing through and messy coloring. It’s definitely not for people who enjoy precision in coloring. Then I colored the pineapple shapes with two yellow colors, the leaves with two greens and the large flowers with three pinks. With the darkest green I colored in all the negative spaces first. I colored on the inside front of the card. I used a set from Altenew with green, yellow and pink markers. To color vellum you use alcohol markers and color the back of the motif. I started assembling the card by stacking the green and white main motif die cuts together and adhering them to the front of the card. It also includes some flowers and musical notes. It’s called Just a Tweet and it’s half price right now! If you follow me on Mastodon, you may have noticed the Mother’s Day shaker cards decorated with a bird that I’ve been selling. The sentiment is also Spellbinders Large Die of the Month but it’s from two years ago. While it’s not dangerous, it gets old quickly. Some also sheds like crazy and you end up with glitter all over yourself, your home and pets. Glitter cardstock varies widely in how easy it is to die cut. Here’s a well-reviewed alternative and a fun, gradient version. The colored cardstock is from a brand that no longer exists. It’s called Kaleidoscope Floral Slimline and it’s on sale right now. The main motif is a Spellbinders Large Die of the Month from last year. I’m often happily surprised when I move my box and discover forgotten treasures under it. The big box full of paper is also useful for flattening things. If your scraps box gets overly full, you’ll find lots of ideas on YouTube or Pinterest for projects to use them up. I dig through my box regularly and particularly before cutting into whole sheets of expensive specialty papers. If you use 12 by 12 scrapbook papers, it’s important that the box is at least 12” in one direction. That’s what Jennifer McGuire does.īut I just have a big box. You can buy plastic job ticket folders and separate them by color.

If you don’t already have a way of storing your usable scraps, that’s something to invest in. You’ll also be left with a piece that’s 8.5” by 4”, which you can use as a card front or for die cutting from. Use an adhesive sheet or Xyron to stick the vellum down all over the surface. Wrap around the back: Make the vellum larger than the area it’s supposed to cover and wrap it around another card element. There are a couple of different strategies for getting around this.Ĭover up the back: This is what I use in this tutorial. Vellum is tricky, because glue will show through it. Then I scored it at 3.5” and folded it in half. To accomplish that, I put a letter-sized sheet of vellum in my cutter in landscape orientation and cut it at 7”. My size was determined by the die set I used for the main motif. They fit into a standard business envelope.

Slimline cards vary in size, but are generally 8-8.5” by 3-3.5”. I created two cards, but for simplicity’s sake this tutorial assumes that you’re only making one.

Vellum business cards