Make a Mothers Day Card
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Make a Mothers Day Card This Year!
Yes, you can easily create a special card for your mother and be proud of it. Handcrafted gifts are so thoughtful and sincere because of the time and effort you put into it.
Even if you think it's not the fanciest card around, your mom will appreciate every bit of it, take from me, I am a mom too and love to recieve any gifts that made from the heart. So I hope you enjoy making the following card as much as I enjoyed creating it!
Accordian Style Card
The following template involves creating a card using an accordian style pattern that supe easy to assemble.
When the card is opened, you are pleasently surprised to see how big the inside actually is. Above you see the card when it is closed and on the right you see what it looks like when it is opened. Cool right?
Supplies
- construction paper of your color choice (I love purple)
- glue stick
- white card-stock
- scissors
- embellishments (photos, lettering, decoration...)
Directions
To create the card that is shown, all you need is 3 rectangular pieces of construction paper.
You can make the card as long as you like, meaning add as many pages to your design as you see fit. You'll understand once you get going.
Take your first page and fold on a angle. This will create your first fold and give you a guideline to cut to create a square.
What you end up with is a perfect square with a diagonal pleat. Next you take the square and fold it in half.
Once your fold is complete, unfold and lay flat.
Now you have a diagonal pleat and a vertical pleat.
Again you would fold your paper in the opposite direction. Reopen and lay flat.
Now you have a diagonal, vertical and horizontal pleat. This is your basic folding pattern.
Repeat these steps 2 more times. This will form the length of your card.
Assembling the pieces
Now that you have all your squares, you need to line them up like the picture below and glue the end triangles together. This will barely show in the final design.
Next you need to cut 2 squares out of the card-stock that will fit the end triangles and glue in place. This will give your card stability.
Once you're done this, you want to fold your card. This might take a few tries and it's almost impossible to describe the steps to this, but I did take photos to try and guide you through.
You can see how I folded the first page, now you would turn it over and do the same and again a third time.
Once you've folded it a few times, it naturally folds this way, making it easy to open and close.
All that's left to do is decorate as you wish.
You can embellish your card based on a theme or just add whatever you like.
You can also use this template to create other special day cards such as fathers day, christmas etc...
I hope you've enjoyed this craft and will create one of your own for your mother this year.
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Thanks honey! I will definitely be trying this one out! Great hub!
You have taken brilliant photos toguide us step by step. Thanks heaps, Any mother would love receiving one of these. Thanks for sharing
What a great idea for mothers day card.the step by steps are easy to follow.its so nice to show the mothers how to do a wonderful card for there mothers its brilliant. thanks chantelg4
This is wonderful, it will much more personal than standard cards. Nicely done.
I love card making and this looks like a fun one.
Oh very nice. I will made and send such one to my mother.
Thanks for actually providing a tip that can be used! So many articles on making cards are no more than a supply list and encouragement to use your imagination. I appreciate a concrete technique.
i love you so much. and you are working really hard to make some money.and you are the gratest mom ever. so i want to say this to you happy moters day.
This is a great idea. Wonderful job with the photos. I'm getting ready to try this project with my kids.
What a lovely idea - great hub thank you!
wow!even iam only 9 yrs old im feeling like a mom just doing it!iam gona make one for my mom and one for my dad!tnx...who ever u are...hehehe!
Hi I wish I was there yet. I've only just started and I'm still battling. Very good. Lovely way to show how the cards should be made
Love the step by step instructions!
too good
swwweett it is kool
So nice I Love it. so much thank's
So Hard i Cant Even UnderStand LOL!!!
What a lovely idea and i love it thank's.................
What a lovely idea and i love it thank's.................
thank you sooo much! i really needed a idea for mothersday and quick! thank you!
I like this one
love this idea
tis is so beautiful, nice and pretty i like tis s awesome charrr i can't believe.hard!!!!
awesome work....
i loved doing this with
my dad for my mum.
she loved it and put it in
her offic!
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cool
i love purple
i love it, it's amazing but can you explain the last bit that shows you how to fold it because i don't really understand it :)
we are broke have no money no card to make a card my mum is in hopstipal
Its a vey fantabulous card! Thanks for d idea!
bad bad bad bad boreing its crazyly bad
cant you just make a video but it helped me a lot
Very cool hub chantel! Hope my mom doesn't read this one.. she may be getting one for Mom's Day! :) Voted up! Lisa
jonixk 4 years ago
what a great hub this is! The photos give the special touch to this hub, it's easy to follow your instructions. thanks chantel.