Time Saving Tips for Card Makers

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These are 5 ways to help save time while you are creating cards to send out to your friends and family.

Tip 1 – Pre-cut your paper

• cut pack of 8-1/2″ x 11″ card stock in half to make card bases
• cut 12″ x 12″ paper into 4″ x 6″ pieces
• have all the pieces to a card design pre-cut before you put your card together, especially if you are creating a lot of the same cards.

Tip 2 – Mount all the stamp images to acrylic blocks

• cleaning the stamp, taking it off the block and sticking the next stamp on takes a lot of time especially if you have many stamps for one card
• invest in many different size blocks
• use a stamp positioning tool

Tip 3 – Punches instead of Dies

• die machines take extra time

Tip 4 – Abstract coloring

• instead of detail coloring just throw some ink on the image with a watercolor brush or abstract stamp

Tip 5 – Keep it simple