Sometimes when you finish making a homemade card, you might be super happy
with it but think there might be just a little something extra that it needs to
make it super special. I get that too and whenever I have that problem you know
what I do? I use border peel-offs! As you can see I'm a little bit obsessed. I have
a lot of different designs. But what are border peel-offs? Well, quite simply,
they're stickers which you can stick along your card to create shiny pretty
borders alongside your card. My second magic weapon to finish up handmade cards
is sticky back gemstones. This is a big box - I have
a lot to choose from. These are quite similar - they're sticky as well so they
are pretty gemstones and they're all flat back so they'll go really nicely on
your card. Best of all, they're sticky so you don't need any glue - you can just
peel them off of the paper and then stick them to places on your cards for a
little bit of extra added sparkle. They come in all different shapes and sizes
and colors and best of all they are really affordable and you get loads on a
sheet so they last a long time. Let's dive in and transform
this little teddy bear card into one that's got nice glitzy edges and
gemstones on the corners. The first thing to do is to choose your border peel-offs
that you're going to use. If I have a flick through, I'm thinking for
this design because it's got so many yellows and browns that gold is going to be better
than silver, so let's look at my gold.
I've got straight line ones here; I've got heart shapes; got some corners
(they're probably not gonna work because they're too big) and then these
ones are some nice wavy edge. I think that's probably what I'll use
because I like having wavy edges - it's just that a little bit more interesting.
Let's start with these. I'm going to put these along the edges of the squares
of paper to bring it all together and add in some gold that's gonna go on each of the
different bits so it's all going to match. It's going to have that really nice shiny
sparkle to it and it's just going to finish everything off nicely. Another reason I
like to use the peel-off stickers is that I am awful at sticking things on straight.
You might be able to see on this one that the papers are not quite straight on the
white card. I've never been good at it and I'll probably never be good at it!
Border peel-offs let you fix your errors if you haven't stuck
something straight, because what you can do is stick them a little bit
wonky to give the illusion that your lines are straight. If
you've got more color showing on one side than the other you can stick them at a
slight angle to make that gap the same. That is my best card making hack
and I use it pretty much on every card I make because of my inability to stick
anything straight. To use them, you just peel off the bit you want
to use and then go to your card and just stick it down on one side - use your
finger - and then just gently let it fall. You don't want to pull it and stretch it
because then it will go out of shape or you might break it because these are
quite narrow, thin and delicate.
As you finish, push it down and then when you get to the end, if
you've got a bit too much just take your scissors and trim it down to size.
That is one side done! I'm gonna need another bit. If you've got lots of
designs on one sheet like this one is, you need to just be careful that you
peel off the same design for each side that you're gonna do otherwise it won't
match which would look a little bit weird.
I've now gone through all of
the outside edges and added the gold peel-offs so it's ready for me to start
doing the same thing on the edge of the yellow and the edge of the printed card.
I've stuck all the peel-offs down now, so my card is really starting to have that
wonderful luxury finish look to it. There's just one more thing to do and
that's to cover up all of these messy corners where the border peel-offs meet
with some gemstones. In typical fashion, I don't actually HAVE any gold
ones to match the borders exactly, but I've got these ones which are kind of a
burnt orange color so they go nicely with the sunflowers, and I've got these
ones which are kind of a pale yellow. I'm just trying to decide which ones I want
to use and I think the pale yellow ones are going to win. They're a little bit more
subtle and I've got more of them and they're all the same size so it's going to
fill in all the different corners. To add these, all you need to do is to peel
them individually off of the backing sheets and then stick them where you
want to go. Because they're sticky on the back, you can just push them down and
it will stick on. If you can't get them off you could use a a pricking tool or a
pair of tweezers or something to get them off the sheet but I find that
easiest thing to do is just to get your fingernail under them and just lift it
gently as that means you're already holding it so you can put it
down where it needs to go. We're using these to hide the messy corners where
the two bits of peel-off meet, but also because it's another way of adding some
glitz and glam to the card and it's a little bit of 3d-ness as well because
they stand out from the paper and overall it just gives a really nice,
luxury, professional feel to your handmade cards. I've got two sides
left to do - and there we have it! So if we think back to how this was looking at the
start of the video without any of this gold, it was still a really nice card but
we could give it a bit more va-va-voom - a bit more sparkle so that's what we've done!
It's now got all these pretty gold peel-offs along each of the corners so it's
really sparkly and luxury and glittery. Then, we've got these little circles
in the corners to add even more oomph to the card. I hope you've
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