Easy easter cards to make: Bendi cards
Try this fun card making tutorial from Sarah Jackman Read, as featured in Make Cards Today magazine
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What you’ll need
- White card
- Coloured paper
- Adhesive gems
- Patterned paper
You Will Need
- White card
- Paper, coloured
- adhesive gems
Total time:
Step 1
To make your bendi card, first cut a 13 x 15cm piece of white card. Cut a 12 x 14cm piece of spotty paper, layer onto pink paper then layer onto a 15 x 13cm piece of white card to make the base card. We’re using the patterned paper and topper collection from Make Cards Today March ’20 – but you can use whatever you have to hand! Short on patterned paper? Check out our collection of patterned paper – all free to download and print!
Step 2
Cut a 13 x 9cm piece of white card, score 1cm at both ends then trim one to create a 1cm tab, as shown. Cut a 10 x 8cm piece of egg-patterned paper, layer it onto pink paper. Add to the base.
Step 3
Trim a 13 x 5cm piece of white card then score down 1cm at one end and trim a tab as before. Trim a 10 x 4cm piece of floral paper, layer onto pink paper then attach to the base.
Step 4
Cut a small slit 5cm from the left-hand edge of the base card in line with the tab on the egg panel. Follow the same instructions on the other panel.
Step 5
Add the egg panel to the right-hand side of the base card and the pink panel on the other side. Place the tabs in the slits. Add a border, as shown, then attach a topper with foam pads.
Step 6
Add a decorative border to the pink panel. Add three egg toppers to the top of the panels then attach a sentiment with foam pads. Finish with pink adhesive gems, to finish.
Fun cards for foodies!
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Authors
Hannah has worked on Gathered for 2 years, since our launch in 2019. At school Hannah learned to knit collaborating on dorcas blankets – now she edits our knitting section. She inherited her love of stitching and embroidery from her talented grandmother, and her passion for thread led her to be Editor of The World of Cross Stitching for six years. Card making is a more recent passion, developing from her position as editor of Cross Stitch Card Shop. She loves using kinetic techniques to make cards that move – she was editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine for over four years, creating loads of card making video tutorials at www.youtube.com/PapercraftTV.
