Travel cards

By Spotlight

Don’t rely on shop bought cards. Use your own unique photography to say hello

Final Result

Materials

• 12” x 12” scrapbook paper travel themed
• cardstock - orange, brown, white
• handmade travel theme stickers
• embellishments - mixed round mini brads, round metal travel theme brads, metal photo anchors, ribbon sticker
• die cut tags
• adhesive cork alphabet
• scissors
• double-sided adhesive squares
• 6 small favourite travel photos (3 from each country)
• pen - colour of choice
• glue

Step 1

Egypt

Cut orange cardstock 18cm x 16cm then cut a smaller square of brown cardstock and adhere to large card. Attach 3 small photos to card - top rightcorner, top left corner and centre bottom. Using mini brads attach 5 die cut tags to the centre of the card slightly overlapping each other. Write one letter of the country on each tag. Add journalling as desired, leaving enough room for decoration. Using travel stickers and embellishments decorate the rest of the card.

Step 2

Paris

Cut brown cardstock 18cm x 16cm then cut a strip of travel paper 18cm x 9cm and attach across the centre. Adhere sticker ribbon across bottom of card. Attach 3 small photos in the same layout as Egypt postcard and add journalling. Attach 4 coloured mini brads across top of card above photos. Adhere die cut tag above middle photo, add sticker letter then write rest of word on tag. Attach round metal bubble brads.

Step 3

To finish

Cut white cardstock 17.5cm x 15.5cm. Draw up like the back of a postcard (eg: address, affix stamp here, etc) and attach with glue to the back of the card, covering brad prongs.

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