Learn These Simple Card Making Techniques!Make beautiful cards for your friends with these simple card making techniques. I will be covering more techniques for card making here so do bookmark this page and visit often.
One of the many techniques that we are covering here is called 'Nail Polish Technique'. Here, we are using colorful nail polish to make card making backgrounds for our cards. It is quite simple and easy to master. Following is a card that is made using the Nail Polish Technique.
1. 2 or 3 bottles of different colors nail polish 2. nail polish remover 3. shallow plate or tray 4. warm water 5. cardstocks 6. cotton wool 1. Fill tray with warm water to about 1 to 2 inch deep. 2. Add a little remover to nail polish to dilute for easy pouring. 3. Place a piece of cardstock under the water. 4. Pour a bit of each nail polish color into the tray of water, above the cardstock. Color will spread and form a film. So try to pour the next color onto areas that are clear of nail polish. 5. Lift up the cardstock with the film of mixed nail polish colors floating on top. 6. Put aside to dry.
For the above card: 1. Trim and layer over gold cardstock. 2. Attach to black blank basic card. 3. Attach 3 flower eyelets on side. 4. Thread fibres through the eyelets.
Tips: You can also stamp an image on the cardstock with pigment ink, emboss it and then color with permanent markers first before placing it under the water. Use pastel color nail polish. Or use dark color cardstocks instead.
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