Do you find it hard to give away a card you spent hours making? Most of your time is spent picking out paper and embellishments and figuring out how to place them. Once I put a card together I make a duplicate of that card right then. I can have a duplicate card in just a few minutes.

Make Duplicates

File Card Insert

I like to make file card inserts for my cards so that the people I give them to can re-gift them. To do this cut a file card or a plain piece of card stock to fit. You can leave it plain or you can add a little ink stain on the edges to match your card.

Paper Sample Ring

Cut a scrap of paper 3” long x 1” wide. Punch a hole in the corner and put it on a ring. That way you can have all your paper samples to take with you to the store. I also arrange the paper on the rings in the same order that they are filed in my paper case. See Card Making Paper.

Dip a small paintbrush in water and paint a line on the paper where you want to tear, pull the paper apart with your hands to make a feathered edge.               

Feathered Edge

Use the back of a mouse pad to emboss vellum or foil or to add more depth to your embossed paper.

Mouse Pad

Take Pictures

Always take pictures of your cards. Then if you didn't make a duplicate of your card you will have a picture of it so you can make it again. I gave away about a hundred cards before I thought to take pictures of them.