Things You'll Need:
- Blank cards
- Stickers or die cuts
- Dimensional accents
- Glitter or beads
- Adhesives
- Acrylic paint or chalk
- Ribbon
- Rubber stamps
- Ink pads
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Step 1
Stamp an image in the center, on one corner or multiple times to create a patterned background. If you don't have a rubber stamp, use bubble wrap, leaves, a sponge cut into a shape, your fingertips or a pencil eraser to generate a design or pattern.
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Step 2
Support the theme of your project with appropriate stickers, die cuts or images trimmed from recycled greeting cards. Embellish a birthday card by making a sticker scene featuring a cake, candles, presents and confetti, for example.
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Step 3
Create eye-catching texture with dimensional accents. If you're designing a baby shower card, for instance, cover the background with pieces of soft fabric, cluster buttons or charms at one corner or adhere a line of paper flowers as a border.
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Step 4
Add bling with glitter or microbeads. Apply a thin layer of liquid adhesive or double-stick tape to the sections you'd like to cover and then sprinkle with fine glitter, shiny microbeads or colorful seed beads. Press them in and tap to remove the excess.
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Step 5
Boost the color by dry brushing edges or backgrounds with acrylic paint or swirling on a layer of craft chalk. In addition, use the mediums to alter stickers or highlight plain die cuts or stamped images.
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Step 6
Use ribbon as a finishing touch. Knot short snippets along one side, weave a piece through notches created with scissors or use longer lengths to tie the entire card shut.
