Easy Card Making

Window Cards

Have you ever thought about creating an Aperture or window card, but you’re not quite sure what to do with them.  If you are not even sure what I mean by this term, an aperture or window card is a card with a hole cut out on the front of the card, often in the centre and can be almost any shape or size, but more often than not are oval, circular or square.

These are very versatile and can be used for any occasion. For example a Heart Shape is ideal for Valentines, or Romantic Cards and for Weddings or Anniversaries you could cut out the shape of an arch to represent a church doorway.

Making Your Card Into A  Window

Square apertures are useful as they can be made to look like windows and using acetate to represent the glass you can either make your card as if looking in or out of a room.  I particularly like this for Christmas Cards where you can have a “window” with a fireplace on the inside of the card with stockings hanging and maybe cotton wool on the outside of the acetate to represent snow.   Or maybe you could make a window card with a cat sitting on a sofa showing through the window for a “Welcome to Your New Home” card.

You can purchase card blanks with the shapes already cut out in many outlets and craft shops or with a little effort you can cut out or punch your own shapes, but you will need to be accurate.

You can easily make an aperture card into a shaker card or a Peek a Boo card, which are especially good for children’s cards.

And for Mother’s Day or Mom’s Birthday you can put dried, silk,  or stencilled flowers  or Photos in the centre of the aperture.  Or what about a picture of an elegant lady from the art deco era, you could embellish this by adding small beads or gold peel off “dots” as earrings or a necklace on the picture or maybe feathers on a hat if the Lady is wearing one.

Punching Holes

If you wanted to punch 2 or 3 Medium sized holes down the right hand side of your card you could place flowers, or stickers in the apertures and then embellish the outside of your card  with ribbons and peel offs to make a simple but affective birthday card.

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