My Cards.
The one on the left here is done using Iris Folding. I took the cutout piece, running it through a bricks embossing folder to make the centre piece house for the 2nd card. |
Links to Free Templates.
Iris folding, is a really easy, yet very impressive looking technique. The website is no-longer active, but The Circle of Crafters have kindly left all their free iris folding templates up and available for us. You can find the house shaped template here.
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Iris Folded House Card - Click for Free Template |
If you have a cutting machine, you could pick up this gorgeous free cutting file from Bird's Cards.
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Free cutting file @ Bird's Cards. |
I found some pop-up card templates too, for making the inside of your cards stand out.
Make Popup Cards have a number of free templates, including this simple house. There's even a video tutorial. To get the free template for the simple house you need to sign up to their free newsletter.
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Simple House pop-up card. Need to sign up to their newsletter for the free template. |
Popupology have something a little more detailed, again with a video tutorial.
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Popupology Free Pop-up House Template. |
For my final piece of inspiration, I've found this lovely door card by Lynn Pratt. She has shared a free template in her fabulous blog post.
Double door card with free template. |
Happy card making everyone, and be blessed, from Angela.
Great cards, thanks for the links :)
ReplyDeleteOutstanding variety of techniques! And what a nice lot of freebies for us. Very inspiring & creative :D
ReplyDeleteWonderful techniques and some cute fun cards :)
ReplyDeleteI love that you used the cut out from card one for the centre piece of card two! Very clever! And what a lot of inspiration you've given us! thanks for two great posts.
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