Gatefold Card Tutorial

                                

                                   SQUARE GATEFOLD CARD TUTORIAL

Hi Everyone,

Today we have been busy designing some new cards for our website, and thought we would share a lovely tutorial with you. We have some new Square gatefold cards and DL size gatefold card kits, both are now available in our shop.

Here we have printed on one of square gatefold card inserts as a wedding invitation, added one of our brown paper doilies and completed the card with some gorgeous wired ribbon from Jane Means (www.janemeans.com) and simply finished with a printable tag and a handmade paper flower.

Print the insert card with your desired birthday message, wedding invitation details or Christmas greeting as above.. 

Use doubled sided tape to adhere your printed insert to the middle part of the card base. 

You then need to add double sided tape to the back side of the paper doilie, and place centrally onto the front left hand flap of the card. 

This is so your card can open and close without the doilie sticking to the opposite side of the card. 

Add your ribbon, and a printable tag with your printed message or wedding date, tie a bow with your wired ribbon, and add a paper flower to finish!

Our Supplies:

Square Gatefold card kit here:

brown paper doilie here:

wired ribbon from Jane Means here:

Recycled paper flower here:

                                                             DL GATEFOLD CARD TUTORIAL 


The same principle applies to the DL gatefold card kits, except you can punch holes to tie your twine or ribbon to the front of your card.

print your insert card and add double sided tape the the back of the card and adhere to the middle of the folded card.

Measure 105mm lengthways in and score a faint line using a braddle on the inside of your card 

and do the same again on the opposite flap.

Measure the width inside and add a score line to meet 15mm, this is where you need to punch your holes on both sides.

Thread your jute twine,or ribbon from the back of the card, and tie into a bow at the front. here we have added one of our printable tag to complete the card.

Our Supplies:

 DL Gatefold card kit here

Recycled paper flower here:

printable tags here

hope you like them!

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Wedding Cheque Book Invitations

Wedding Cheque Book Invitations

         

So many of my customers purchase wedding cheque book style invitations from my website www.razzledazzlerose.co.uk, and have no idea how to print on them. Here we show you how to create these simple, but stunning cheque books style invitations for your wedding. 

The cheque book kits come with:

275gm Blank Brown kraft card front and back cover

3 x 100gsm Blank kraft paper insert sheets

Matching Brown Kraft 120gsm DL Envelopes

The covers and inserts are pre drilled, and creased to the left hand side.

The kits are available in packs of 25 cheque books.

Each cheque book ‘sheet’ comes pre-drilled, and creased, with a front and back cover and three insert sheets that can all be easily printed from your home printer. 

Firstly, using Microsoft word, you need to choose the paper size to print directly onto the sheets. Choose page layout, size, from the drop down menu choose DL long edge, this will change your page size to the correct size required to print onto your cover and inserts correctly.  

From the tabs at the top of the screen, choose home, then insert tab, then add text box, choose text direction tab, then rotate the text by 90 degrees so the text direction is in line with the DL size you want to print on.

You can add your designs, or artwork, and add your chosen wording. Remember to leave at least a 20mm gap at the left hand side when typing for the creasing and the drill holes.

Repeat this process for your insert sheets adding the details of your wedding date, time and location, the remaining sheet can be a rsvp to your guests etc.

                                                                                                                                                                                       You need to then alter your printer tray to fit the card and insert sheets like this:

There is usually a DL indicated or Envelope indicator printed on the paper tray. Move the tabs at the side so the card cover fits. Print on the reverse side of the card with the two holes nearest to you.  Repeat the process for the insert sheets.

Once the card cover and the inserts have been printed you need to then attach them together. With your ribbon, cut both ends of the ribbon to angles – this make threading the ribbon through the holes a little easier.  Start from the back, you should have a plain back cover, three insert sheets and a front cover. 

Once both ribbons are pulled through to the front, tie into a bow to complete your wedding cheque book invitations.

And there you have it, your beautiful cheque book wedding invitations.

If you would like to WIN a free set of cheque book wedding invitations, simply leave a comment below here on the blog.

I will enter each comment into a draw, and we will post them to one lucky random winner. The winner will be selected and announced here on the blog on 1st May. Only 1 comment per person please.

Good Luck!

Any questions, please feel free to email me sharon@razzledazzlerose.co.uk.

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Handmade Paper flowers

Step by Step Tutorial for Hand Made 

Recycled Paper Flowers

Here's how to make these gorgeous handmade paper flowers

Step 1

To make these gorgeous recycled paper flowers, firstly, you need to purchase one of our paper kit from our website herewww.razzledazzlerose.co.uk.  In your paper flower kit, you will see die cut pieces of paper like this:

 Step 2   To make the flower, you need to carefully roll the paper from the end until you reach the middle  like this:

Step 3

Once you have reached rolling to the middle part of the paper flower, you need to add the glue to the large middle part. Once you let go of the rolled flower, it will naturally unroll slightly, this is ok, as you want the flower petals to look a little looser.

 I find that lifting the rolled flower in one hand and squeezing a blob of glue under the rolled part works best. You then need to add another blob of glue to the rest of the middle part, and squeeze the flower together like this :

Step 4

Leave the glue to set for 20 minutes; then start to bend your petals. By moving and bending the petals, you create a more natural look for your petals.

Depending on which kit you have purchased, you can create fantastic button holes by glueing a pin to the back.

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Our flower kits are available in brown kraft card, cream vintage fleck card (as show in our diagram’s) or plantable and growable seed card. They can be used to decorate your wedding favours or invitations, or as button holes for your guests.

Why not create a lasting memory of your special day, by planting your button hole? Once your button hole has been used, it can then be planted where it will produce a wide range of British Wildflowers.

Our gorgeous plantable seed paper is hand made with Contains British Wildflower Seeds. Seeds included are;- Birdsfoot Trefoil, Black Snapweed, Black Medick, Common Vetch, Meadow Buttercup, Musk Mallow, Ox-eye Daisy, Ribwort Plantain, Red Campion, Self Heal, White Campion, Yarrow, Browntop Bent, Red Fescue, Crested Dogstail, Meadow Fescue and Smooth Stalk Meadow Grass.

Additional flower kits can be purchased on our website:    www.razzledazzlerose.co.uk

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Wedding favour pouches

Wedding Favour Pouches

Hi everybody, I thought that it would be a good idea for my first blog to be a tutorial on how to make these lovely little favour pouches that so many of you have been asking me how to make!

Firstly, you need an A4 sheet of the 275gm Kraft card available from here the 300gm kraft card on my website is too thick and won't crease as easily.

Cut the A4 card to 8.5 x 11 inches.

Using your score board and scorer  score at 2, 5, 7 and 10" on the long edge of your card.  Turn the card to the shorter edge and score at 2 and 7". Hold the card horizontally with the 2" section at the top and cut off all the top section all but the 2" section to look like this:

It's important that you don't cut this section off as it is the tab for your pouch.

Cut the narrow piece at an angle to create tab for your double sided tape. 

Make vertical cuts at the bottom flap. This will be the bottom of the pouch. 

Add the double sided tape to the two larger of the flaps to look like this:

turn the card over and add to the flap with the slanted edges.

using a bone folder if you have one, crease all the flaps like this:

Fold the flap over with the double sided tape to match the opposite flap, this makes it easier to line up and stick together. 

now you need to fold in the two smaller flaps from the bottom of the box and remove the tape off the larger flaps :

 

you should now have a pouch with a bottom that looks like this:

this is the tricky bit, placing the sealed bottom of the pouch on your worktop with the open end facing up, use fingers to push either side of the pouch like this:

almost done! 

using a single hole punch, add two holes to the top flap, this will be where you add your ribbon or raffia.

Once you have added the two holes to the top flap, with the flap pushed down, use a pencil to mark where the hole matches on the pouch. Line up on the pouch and punch two more holes.  At this stage you could either cut with pinking shears or a border punch die on the flap if desired.

Add ribbon or raffia ribbon by starting to thread from the inside of the pouch, I  find it best to twist the ends of the ribbon or raffia first to get through the holes ok. Feed the raffia or ribbon through both holes from the back of the pouch and cut to make sure you have two equal lengths.

Pull your ribbon or raffia up through the top 2 holes, add a tag at this stage if required by threading through the ribbon before tying.

At this stage you need to add your choice of fillings.

Tie your bow and trim ends as required and your done!

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Welcome

Hello All, and welcome to the very first Blog from Razzle Dazzle Rose. Here you will find all my templates and step by step instructions and inspiration for creating beautiful recycled hand made wedding stationery.

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