When gathering trash and recycling from my studio, I noticed various hole punches on the floor around my recycling and decided to challenge myself to make something from hole punches so I would have uses for them moving forward. You know I love a good scrap project and this fits the bill. The obvious choice was a Birthday Card and I really love how it all came together. I shared both a video and a step by step guide.
Scrappy Happy Birthday Card Video
Here’s the step by step, short video I recorded to walk you through how I brought this scrappy happy birthday (scrappy birthday?) card together. It’s short and to the point and I’d love it if you’d click in and watch it. I’d double love it if you hit subscribe!
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You could really make this card with only things you already have on hand – if you don’t have something I’ve shared in the video, there are infinite alternatives – I’ve listed a few in the supply list below.
- Hole Punch (you could also use a circle punch!)
- colorful card stock scraps
- something to hold all of the colorful hole punches in
- liquid glue – I shared Tombo Mono Aqua, Zig, and Clear Elmer’s Glue in a Small Bottle
- 4.5X5.5 card front – I use the card bases below, cut in half)
- scoreboard tool
- craft tweezers
- tape runner
- card base
How to Make my Scrappy Happy Birthday Card
Step 1: Hole punch your colorful cardstock scraps or just use whats already in your hole punch that you’ve been saving. I found my hole punch worked much better with 65lb cardstock than my 80lb card stock – it wouldn’t work at all with 100lb.
Step 2: Score your card front panel at ever 1/4″ mark to create a fun ridged texture
Step 3: apply a coat of liquid glue about 1/8th of the way up your card base
Step 4: Dunk your card base in your colorful holes. Use your fingers to make sure everything is adhered. If necessary, take your clue and apply a few holes by hand to cover up blank spots.
Step 5: Glue a few holes above this section to imitate holes falling down
Step 6: Repeat the process on the other end of the card
Step 7: Apply your sentiment die cut (or whatever you’re using to the front of the card
Step 8: Fill in the blank space with a few remaining colorful holes
Step 9: Adhere your card front to the card base
I’ll be back to share a few more ideas I had to use up these colorful bits and bobbles in additional craft projects so be sure to watch the blog and channel for those – in the meantime, I’d love to hear your ideas – how do you use these little colorful hole punches?