How to Make a Handmade Get Well Card

It is nice to receive a card from a friend, wishing you a speedy recovery, when you are sick and not feeling well. It is even nicer to receive a handmade card, made especially for you. This cute card features a tissue box with a real tissue and a sweet sentiment. Keep a stock of these handy cards ready to mail whenever you hear of an ill friend or family member.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Scissors
• Coordinating patterned paper
• Foam tape
• Pen
• Tape
• Pastel cardstock
• Tissue

1. Fold a piece of pastel cardstock in half. Make sure your card will fit in a standard envelope.
2. Coordinate a piece of patterned paper to the card. This paper will be the tissue box.
3. Cut the patterned paper into a medium size rectangle. Make sure it will fit on your card face.
4. Trim away the top left corner and the bottom right corner, to make it appear as a cube.
5. Fold a crease from the bottom right corner up to the top and from the top left corner across to the right edge. This should help the rectangle look more like a cube.
6. Cut a small line near the top of the box for the tissue to pop out of.
7. Tear a small piece of tissue from a real tissue and tuck into the cut slit. Tape to the back to secure.
8. Attach the tissue box and tissue to the front of the card using foam tape to give it dimension.
9. Write "Gesundheit" or "God Bless You" underneath the tissue box in wide print.
10. Add your "get well" sentiments inside the card.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also purchase pre-made base cards and matching envelopes. Card making supplies can be found at most craft stores, in the scrapbooking section.
• Envision the cube by drawing a box on a piece of scrap paper.

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