Card Layering Templates are really a great, simple tool to make designing cards so much simpler. I used mine last night to decide what size layers I wanted to make on a card. Here is a FREE PDF (corrected 7/27/20) of the information below.
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| My templates for quarter inch layers are cut from warm colors. |
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| My templates for eighths are cut from cool colors. |
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| I keep my templates in a stamp case, with some pretty DSP inserted insdie:) |
How Do Card Templates help card makers?
You can use the card templates as a
visual layout. Card Sketches are great, as they get your creative
juices flowing and ideas begin to take shape. You can do the same
with your templates. Lay them on the card to get the idea of what
measurements are going to work. Then once you have picked your
layers, cutting out is easy as they have the measurements written on
them.
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| This is a card sketch. There are loads of these on Pinterest. Copying the layout is easy, but what size? You can use Card Templates to try out sizes until you find one you like. |
They are great for beginners to learn
the measurements they need to start simple card making. We all can
remember the time when we had no idea how to even cut into the
cardstock to make a card! It was overwhelming and at times very
frustrating. You can always have templates with the sizes to use
whenever you want to create.
A-2 Cards are made from a half sheet of
8-1/2” x 11” cardstock cut and scored at either:
- Portrait 5-1/2” x 8-1/2” scored at 4-1/4”
- Landscape 4-1/4” x 11” scored at 5-1/2”
Cardstock Layering
The
table below is a handy reference for creating layers on your cards.
- Use the first column of measurements (in inches) and the result will be a 1/8 inch border on all sides of the card as each mat/layer is reduced by 1/4 inch (1/8” on each side).
- Use the first and second column of measurements and the result will be 1/16 inch border on all sides as each layer is reduced by 1/8 inch (1/16” on each side).
Edited to correct the 1/16" borders 7/27/20
