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Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Valentine's Day Special!! : "I Love U" greeting card

Hiya all :) Hope you all wonderful people are doing great!!

This fifth tutorial from 'Valentine's Day Special' series is all about those three magical words that everybody loves to hear : 'I Love You'!! :)

Ready for the procedure?? Here it goes :

Step 1: Take a rectangular white drawing paper of size 27 cm x 24 cm. Fold it in half width-wise to get 27 cm x 12 cm card :

Step 2 : Mark lines at distances as shown in image below.

Step 3: Draw a heart shape in the middle, having maximum length 11 cm and maximum width 12 cm.

Step 4: I just love 'old English' fonts. That is why I chose to write 'I' and 'U' in that font. You can choose any font of your choice instead :)

Step 5: Fill up the heart portion with some nice, delicate design. If you wish, you can also try with fully red-color heart or some straight line design or you can paste your couple picture. <3

Step 6: Now we are done with the drawing part. Lets pick up those paints and brushes!

Step 7: Now comes the 'cutting' part. Cut out along the heart shape as shown in the image below.

Now cut the heart joint from the front page of the greeting card, so that we will be able to open this heart later!

Step 8: We are gonna make the base of the card now. For that, take another rectangular strip of size 27 cm x 6 cm. Mark lines on it at distances as shown in picture below.

Then make folds along this lines (alternate in and out folds).

Step 9: Stick first fold of this strip to the inside-bottom part of the front page of card. And stick the other small fold to the inside-bottom part of back page of the card. (Might sound confusing, but it is actually quite simple!)

So in this way, base of the card is ready!

Step 10: Make slits in the card as indicated in the picture below.

Step 11: Take a golden (preferably) ribbon now. Pass this ribbon, alternately in and out, through all the slits.

So by now, your card should look like this :

Step 12: Almost done now! Make sure the ribbon is tight enough (such that heart is perfectly balanced now, not toppling over) and make cute bows at both the ends of the ribbon.

Step 13: Write some lovely message inside that heart and there you have it!!! Your card is ready to convey your feelings to your someone special :) <3

Hope you all are enjoying this 'Valentine's Day Special Series' of 'Something Different'. Some more cool and interesting tutorials are on their way!! Stay connected!!

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Monday, 2 February 2015

Valentine's Day Special : 'Dancing in the moonlight' greeting card tutorial

Hello everybody :) How are you doing today?? Ready for the fourth tutorial from 'Valentine's Day Special' Series by 'Something Different'?? Today's card is called 'Dancing in the moonlight'! and well, as the name suggests, it is little bit extra romantic, isn't it? ;)

Here's the tutorial :

Step 1: Card has two rectangular parts. First part is of size 30 cm x 15 cm. Fold it in half to have a square greeting card of size 15 cm x 15 cm.

Step 2 : Join the diagonals of the square as shown to find it's center.

Step 3: With the help of compass, draw a circle having diameter 10 cm. If you don't have a compass, you can use any circular object having approximate diameter of 10 cm. Then cut out this circular region. So first basic part of our card is ready! :)

Step 4 : The second part is again rectangular in shape and is of size 21 cm x 15 cm, Mark lines at 1 cm and 8.5 cm from one of the shorter edges of the rectangle (as shown).

Step 5: Keep first part of the card over second part such that fold of the first part matches with the line drawn at 8.5 cm on the second part. With reference to the first part, draw a circle again on the second part.

Result will be as shown below:

Step 6: Draw a line at 7.5 cm from the other shorter edge of the second part to find the diameter of the circle.

Step 7: Draw lines at 1 cm on the right hand side of this diameter as shown.

And then cut along the darker line as indicated in the image below.

Step 8 : Flip the second part and make folds as shown:

Step 9: Flip the second part again and draw any picture on the circular region. e.g I have drawn a couple slow-dancing together :) <3

Then paint it. (While painting, I decided to give a longer gown instead of frock ;) :D... Looks more romantic, isn't it? ;))

Step 10: I have a beautiful starry paper in my collection which superbly matches with my today's theme of the card. So I decided to cover both the parts entirely i.e. front and back (except for the circular region) with this paper. Check out the results:

If you do not have such paper, then not to worry. You can use dark blue or black paper instead and then using some glitters, you can make the stars.

Step 11: Apply an adhesive to the small flaps of the second part.

And then paste first part over second part such that both circles match perfectly.

Now the top view of the card will look like this :

Step 12: Mark a line at 7.5 cm on the first part as shown.

Apply glue to the other flap of the second part and paste it on the first part along this marked line.

So now top view will be something like this.

Step 13: We are almost done now. I have added some lovely lines on the remaining part of the card. And ta-da!! 'Dancing in the moonlight' card is all ready!! <3

So did you like this 'Dancing in the moonlight' card? Hope you will try making it too :) Lot of customization can be done in this card. Let your imagination soar!!! Let me know your experience :) and as always stay tuned for more crafty tutorials by 'Something Different'!!!