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Offcut Cards

By Sue Skittrell

I enjoy a challenge and find that coming up

with different ideas for making cards from a

bag of offcuts is very satisfying.

You probably won’t get exactly the same

shape or colour offcuts as I did in my one kilo

bag, but there will be some which you can use

with these ideas to make a similar card, and

any variation just adds to the fun.

You will need glue, double sided tape or

sticky fixers, as well as a selection of decorative

items which can include some of the following,

or anything else that you particularly like.

Peel off stickers, tassels, cords or braids. Silk

or paper flowers, photos, clip art or pictures cut

from old magazines. Coloured spray paint (car

spray is good and dries quickly), and metallic

pens are very useful.

Happy Fish Card:

I used six rounded corner 75mm by 75mm

offcuts with a ‘clip art’ fish to make this card. In

a well ventilated area, lightly spray one of the

offcuts all over the front, I used a green paint

which went nicely with the cream offcuts. Once

the paint is dry spray very lightly over again

with a contrasting colour to achieve a speckled

effect, I used red for this.

Place two unpainted offcuts diagonally with

their corners just touching and face up, glue the

painted offcut centrally onto the front of these

making sure the glue or tape is placed only on

areas which will overlap.

For the back of the card, place two offcuts

diagonally as before, but face down. Glue a

third offcut centrally and face up onto them so

it shows as a background when assembled.

Make a slit in the left hand corner of the top

and bottom offcuts on the front and back panels

as shown by the grey lines. Make the slits

approx. 1cm in from the left and extend them

to just over half way down on the front, and

just over half way up on the back.

Slot the two pieces together and secure with

a small piece of sticky tape in the outer ‘V’ of

the hinge. Trim the bottom to make a flat end so

the card stands nicely.

Decorate the card as desired, I coloured and

printed out a ‘clip art’ fish which I then high-

lighted with a metallic pen.

Fold Out Card:

For this card you will need 16 x 60mm

square offcuts, two tassels, some thin

cord in the same colour as the tassels,

and spray paint.

Lay out all the offcuts and lightly

spray to give a pleasing effect, I have

used green and red, both very lightly to

achieve this light speckled effect.

With the sprayed side down, lay two

offcuts side by side with a piece of cord

sandwiched between them, place a strip

of sticky tape over the join. Don’t sand-

wich them too tightly or the card will not con-

certina properly, I found it helped to practice this

on some spare offcuts first. Trim the tape and

cord flush with the offcuts.

Continue by placing offcuts alongside the first

two, with a piece of cord between as before and

taping the back until fourteen of them are used.

Glue one offcut onto the back of the first and last

squares in the row to cover the tape and show

a painted surface on both sides. Fold the card

concertina style and glue a tassel onto the front

two panels.

Again you can decorate the card in any way

you like, I have spelled out ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’

putting one letter onto each square (leaving a gap

between the two words). If you write a different

message check how many squares you will need

before beginning.

I cut large capital letters from red card and

highlighted the edges with a thick gold pen to

make the wording. For the front of my card and

on the blank square between the two words

inside the card I used some little cat pictures.

These last three cards illustrate other methods

for joining offcuts to make unusual cards.

The card on the right

has a strip of sticky back

foil placed centrally

across the two pieces of

card to join them and

make a decorative hinge.

The Japanese style

card has a tab cut into

the front offcut

and a slot in

the back one

and is then

simply slotted

together.

The rose card has the

same style join as used

in the fish card. Cut the

front offcut from the top

and the back one from

the bottom going just

beyond the halfway

point each time. Cover

the join with thin cord.

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