How to Make an Open Hands Gift Card: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Karen for Expert Village. Here is a great gift card that can be sent to an adult from a child or to a child from an adult. It's this one says 'Grandma, look what I found', and then you open it. It has a little frog. So here's one that was with an adult hand. There is hardly anyone who can resist the tracing of a child's hands. So we're, and with a little gift inside that's a really nice thing to send. So this is how we do it. You'll need some card stock. This is best done with card stock. You can do it with paper. This was done with paper. It's a little flimsy but you can do it with paper. But a card stock is a little nice. And you'll need two colors. Something for the popup inside and then something that looks like a hand color for the outside. You'll need an Exacto knife or razor blade. A pair of scissors. Some markers or pens to decorate with. A little bit of glue and maybe some stickers. If you want to use that instead of cutting out your own designs. So let's get started. First you'll need to do a tracing of a hand. Now if you want to do, you'll need to cut, fold this in half. Fold it big enough so that the hand will fit on it. And we're going to trace the hand and leave a section of it touching the fold of the paper. And that section is going to be right here. You want to make sure that when you trace the hand. That you place the hand here. But you also want the wrist be free and the fingertip to be free. But it's going to join right there. As if you have two hands holding a gift for your recipient. That will be the first thing we'll do. We'll get a pencil. And we don't want the hand wide open. Like this. You keep it slightly closed. For a child it will be much smaller. And you just trace around like this. Now it doesn't have to be perfect. You can correct it a little while you're cutting it out. And you trace it like that. Now you see that I've left I've made this go nice and close to the fold of the paper and it will be joined there. You don't want to make that section too small or the card will not be sturdy."