How to Make A Greeting Card with Polymer Clay Embellishments

Home made greeting cards are so fun to make and even more fun to receive! Make a special card for someone you love! Make 10 cards and send them to me for the Cheer a Child Challenge and receive my new "Greeting Card Fun and More" book free in e-book form.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Pink, Red and White Card Stock
• Silver Paint Pen
• Red and Black Marker
• White and Red Polymer Clay
• Fancy Edge Paper Scissors (Fiskars® Victorian used)
• Paper Cutter
• Ruler
• Strong Glue such as E-6000
• +Pasta Machine (optional)
• +Wavy Heart Cutter
• +Kemper® 3⁄16”, 5⁄16” and 7⁄16” Heart Cutters
• +Available at PolyClayPlay.com

1. Run white clay through the pasta machine on the second widest setting.
2. From this piece, cut several white hearts using the various sized Kemper® heart cutters.
3. Cut two 7⁄16” red hearts.
4. Marble the hearts with ½ ounce of *conditioned white clay. To marble, mix the red and white clay by twisting it and running it through the pasta machine until you start getting marbled streaks on the clay sheet. Note: If you continue to mix, the clay will become completely pink.
5. When you have a marbled pattern you like, cut a wavy heart from the sheet.
6. Cut various sized pink and red hearts.
7. Bake all the hearts following your clay package directions.
8. INSIDE OF THE CARD: Cut a piece of pink card stock to 8½” X 5½”. Fold it in half. This is your card.
9. Cut three pieces of white card stock, each to
   5½” X 2”. Set two pieces aside.
10. Write “Hearts Full of Love!” on one piece of white card stock, using a red marker. Trim the edges using your fancy edge scissors.
11. Glue this piece to the inside of your card.
12. OUTSIDE OF CARD: Trim the edges of the remaining two pieces of white card stock with your fancy edge scissors. Check to make sure these pieces fit across the front of your card.
13. Cut two pieces of red card stock each to 4¾” X 9”.
14. Lay the two red pieces on top of the white pieces you have cut out. Make sure the red card stock fits inside the edges of the fancy edged white papers. If they are too big, trim them to fit.
15. Lay a scrap piece of card stock very close to the edge of a red piece.
16. Color the red edge with a silver paint pen using the scrap to make a straight line. Repeat for all the edges on both pieces of red card stock.
17. Glue the red pieces to the white pieces of card stock making two stacked pieces.
18. Write “SENDING...” across one of the red pieces.
19. Glue the two stacked pieces to the front of the card, spacing them evenly as shown.
20. Glue a couple of clay hearts to this piece.
21. Glue the wavy heart to one side and various sized hearts across the bottom stacked piece.
22. Sign the inside of your card and send it to someone you love!
23. Poly Clay Play offers fun books full of tutorials for playing with clay! For a whole book of polymer clay decorated greeting cards go to http://www.polyclayplay.com/Products/Book/AllBooks.htm
    
    You will find other fun polymer clay books there.

Tips & Warnings

• Make a few extras to send in for the Cheer a Child Challenge at Poly Clay Play!
• The Cheer a Child Challenge is all about making greeting cards to send to sick kids that are needing operations or treatments.
• Read more about this great cause at http://www.polyclayplay.com/LoveLetters
• Polymer Clay Playing can be addictive!
• CONDITIONING CLAY: It is important to condition your clay to make it strong after baking. Conditioning is simply kneading it thoroughly by hand or with your pasta machine. If the clay is not conditioned well, it may break easily after curing.
• STAMPS: You may need to add extra postage to a card decorated with polymer clay pieces because they add weight to the card.