New Home Card

This simple but elegant card uses beautifully decorated chipboard letters, which help to make it a special card to celebrate this important event...

Materials and Tools

• Chipboard Alphabet – Classic K Bailey
• Cut Out or Transfer Letters
• Regular Balloon Punch
• Key Charm
• Silver Wire
• DL White Card Blank
• Paper and Card; Silver Mirri, Green background, Arizona and Raven Bazzill Basics Card
• glue and mini mounting pads

Instructions

1. The first step is to cover our card blank with the green background paper. To do this, put an even layer of glue all over the front of the card blank, put the paper on top of this (if you use a corner, you will have two straight edges that you can line up with the edges of the card blank) and cut the paper to size, using scissors or a craft knife and steel edged or metal ruler.

2. Next we need to prepare the letters to stick onto the card. Cut out 5 shapes from the Arizona Bazzill card to put the lettering on, making these a suitable size for your letters. We have used a Quickutz alphabet and handtool for ours, but you could use a black alphabet rub-on transfer. Stick (or rub on) the letters onto the 5 pieces of card. You will need two ‘e’s, a ‘w, an ‘o’ and an ‘m’. Stick two mini-mounting pads onto the back of each of the small pieces of card. Find an ‘N’ and an ‘H’ from the Chipboard alphabet, so you have these ready.

3. The next step is to stick on our message. Position the ‘New’ and‘Home’ words on the card, so that the two words fit across the length and depth of the card. When you have them in place, put several Didi glue dots on the back of each of the capital chipboard letters and stick them down. Remove the backing from the mini-mounting pads on each of the smaller letters and stick these down.

4. The last step is to add the key and balloon. Punch out a balloon from the silver mirri card. Cut a piece of silver wire, about 5cm (2”) and curl this around a cocktail stick (or a cotton bud with one end removed), leaving about 1cm (3/8”) at one end straight. Slide the wire off the cocktail stick and stick the straight end to the underside of the balloon with a mini-mounting pad (the wire should now be between the card and the mini-mounting pad). Stick the balloon onto the card by removing the backing paper from the mini-mounting pad. Put two Didi glue dots on the back of the key (you will need to put them on the wider parts of the key) and stick this into place.

Your card is done!