The Tools For Making Greeting Cards
Create Birthday Cards With a Difference to Surprise and Delight
Jul 6, 2009
Before you can begin making birthday cards you will need to collect the tools for the job. The following tool kit list contains a good selection to cover your needs for all types of birthday card.
- Adhesives: Use a glue stick to secure the Birthday card or the Birthday card to paper; use PVA with a glue brush when a strong bond is required or when attaching non-paper items.
- Craft Knife: Always use a craft knife with a sharp blade to produce a crisp cut for your Birthday card.
- Cutting Mat: Self-healing cutting mats are ideal when using a craft knife to cut Birthday cards because they are smooth and flat. They prolong the life of the knife and are easier to cut on than other surfaces.
- Bone Folder: Essential to give sharp, clean creases in your Birthday card
- Bradawl: For making guide holes in your Birthday card before using brads. Available at hardware stores.
- Cocktail Sticks: To pick up and spread small amounts of glue or to pick up seed beads.
- Erasers: A hard Xyron adhesive eraser to remove excess adhesive and stubborn marks. A soft artist’s putty rubber is also a useful tool for your Birthday card-making kit for removing pencil marks
- Rulers and Set Square or Guillotine: For accurate measuring while making your Birthday card use a ruler. A metal ruler is best because it won’t get chipped by the knife.
- Stylus or Embossing Tool: Invaluable for scoring your Birthday card neatly.
- Tracing Paper: For tracing templates and patterns for your Birthday card.
- Coluzzle Cutting System: With a Coluzzle Cutting System you can cut circular apertures of any shape or size anywhere on paper. To obtain good results for your Birthday card it is essential to use the correct Coluzzle swivel knife because an ordinary cutting knife will not glide through the template channels. You will also need a Coluzzle cutting mat.
- Craft Punch: Often used to crate paper shapes, a craft punch can also be used to create eye-catching apertures for your Birthday card.
- Tweezers: Useful for picking up small items.
This inexpensive Birthday card-making tool kit will enable you to create your own Birthday cards easily and efficiently with professional results. It will provide you with a firm foundation on which to develop and refine your card-making prowess and delight your friends and relatives on their Birthdays. You will now be fully-equipped and ready to learn new techniques for making Birthday cards. This brings with it an immense feeling of satisfaction and a sense of achievement in producing your own homemade birthday cards, each one unique in design and personalised for the recipient.
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