card insert alternatives........ have you got any ideas?

[juicychops]

I need an another idea instead of a card insert. I have thought of printing what i need to onto a piece of nice paper then cutting it out and sticking it in the card but how do i make it look nice and make it look like it isn't just a piece of paper glued into a card?

I sometimes use Safmat from Letraset

Print on using a printer & then the backing peels off like a transfer

link here

After really enjoying making a few concertinaed cards, I started decorating the inside of a few "special" cards too.

Take a look here

rub downs look nice

whizzz - i was lookin at that and was tempted, is it reusable?

dingle -- that's very pretty.

Champs - No its not re-usable
I also used it for labels on the back of my cards

Dingle...love the card...makes it look very special indeed

Dingle, could you describe what you did on the insides of the cards cos yahoo isnt accepting my password or sending me an email

Hi JChops! Very basic really. I print of my wording, usually very similar at the wording on an insert, but obviously it can be whatever you want- a poem even. Print it out and cut out into a square/rectangle- whatever shape best suits the wording/card- leaving a nice sized blank border around the edge. I then use decorate it, very simply in a style similar to the card itself. Layer behind with a patterned paper and decorate with a few die cuts, peel-offs, stickers....

It's like making a very simple card, only thing you really need to do is make sure you don't use to much 3D or the card won't lay flat very nicely.

have a look here at some of my designs to see what I mean. I don't have many pics of the insides of the cards but look at the few concertinaed cards, which is how I started. HTH

dingle... your website is fab!!! As are your card designs. I am so envious. I love that you advertise your donation to the charity. I hope that you are able to contribute lots of moolah from this!!

Thanks Kiwi. Problem is that I don't think of it as a website, it's just something thrown together in the summer when I tried to start de-cluttering and selling off some of the kiddies clothes.

I don't advertise it, so no-one really sees it!

I have not seen your website so hopefully am not contributing to a thread already done.

I put in an insert, usually the best mum, dad stuff.

But as an extra I find a particularly poignant poem, print it off.

Rub a sponge with coffee granules on it, to age () and put on the other side of the card.

Job Done!