Creating a cardboard-base card

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Hello there! It’s Yvonne here to share how you can put some cardboard to good use and make a card! 🙂

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Measure and cut your cardboard to size. Mine is 3×6 inches. Then, tear parts of the cardboard to expose the corrugated parts for texture.

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Add a coat of gesso so that the cardboard surface is prepped for the addition of colorants. Then I added some Liquitex ceramic stucco paste with The Crafter’s Workshop TCW 490 Tattered Lace stencil.

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When that layer was dry, I went in with some Faber Castell Gelatos.

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I added a bit of water to blend the colours. The cardboard is quite porous so try not to saturate it with too much water.

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Then comes the fun part…pulling out embellishments in the same colour family and creating an embellishment cluster. Once that was completed, I glued my cardboard art piece to a kraft card base. You can consider adding the piece to a scrapbook page or use it as a tag.

Yvonne Yam

The Crafter’s Workshop Design Team

5 thoughts on “Creating a cardboard-base card

  1. what a good way for a creative crafty day to use up things that you would normally throw away. this is just lovely….thanks for sharing.

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