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Creative Card Layouts by Craftaholics

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Hi Fellows! Many of you may already know that Craftaholics launched 12 x 12 inches designer papers a while back and have all the happy and excited customers who absolutely loved the quality. Happy and excited feed backs of customers, urged me to work with my own sheets to see what I can make with these. So I gave a challenge to myself 2 cards a day and all having different layouts , look and feel. Guess what? I enjoyed this creativity boost a lot even some days I ended up making 3 or 4 cards.. So I made a total of 15 cards. Sharing 5 of them with you for a creativity inspiration.. This one is the most favourite of mine that I kept on photographing it for so long , updated my DP on Facebook, Instagram , Personal Facebook profile, WhatsApp and where not. The black dust glittered butterfly on the top of scallop and circle is my new favourite way of embellishing the cards. Below are the two sheets I used in it's making and the combination of these two, along with blac...

Swing Fold Card

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Handmade cards are the best gift one can give to loved ones and it gives more pleasure than a store bought card. To make cards, I always search for new folding techniques that are attractive and easy to make at same time. While in hurry, I always prefer this super easy swing fold technique. Have a look at how to make this super easy but cool card. Step I: Gather the material Before starting, make a color theme in your mind and think of how you're going to decorate your card. I always prefer simple card so my list is not much big. Here are all the materials I'll be using: Card stock sheet (21cm x 25cm) Design card stock sheets (I used dotted essentials 12 x 12 sheet) Embellishments (I used diecuts, flowers, stamps etc) Glues and adhesives. Marker colors Pencil, eraser, ruler, scissors etc. Step II: Make basic Structures Once you gather all the materials start making basic card structure by following simple steps. I'll explain everything as generic as...

Scrapbooks by Craftaholics

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Scrapbooks are the best keepsakes for your memories and also a lovely gift for your loved ones. You can have your memories, prayer, wishes, notes and all your love at one place by gifting someone a scrapbook. We make it easy by offering handmade completely customized books for you 🙂 Here are some samples we recently did for our clients Birthday scrapbook for HER The very first order we received was for a  birthday scrapbook. Client asked for a elegant birthday scrapbook with less embellishments yet a lovely look and left the rest on us. She also asked for a box to protect the book. So here is what we made for her. She asked us to make 8-9 pages book + box within 2000/- We planned this theme for her and she was super happy to get this ready. Baby boy milestone book Love of Khala for her adorable nephew. Hamza's milestone book with boys and cars theme. The car shaped book have 12 pages of size 6 x 5. Having a picture capacity for almost 15 pictur...

Tri Shutter Card

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Hi Crafters! Here is another tutorial from *Unique Fold* series. You’ve seen many tri fold cards but this one is unique folding technique tri shutter card. Material needed: 10cm x 18cm plain colored card sheet piece Designer papers of various types Scissors, Glue and Adhesives Embellishments Step1: Cut the card sheet 10 x 18cm. Mark the lines according to the template. Cut on the red lines. Make a mountain fold on all blue lines and valley fold on all green lines and your basic card structure is ready. Step2: Take 3 pattered papers of 5.5 x 5.5 cm, 4 papers with 2.5cm wide and 1.5cm height and 2 pieces with 11.5cm wide and 1.5 cm high. Paste all the pieces on relevant places. Step3: Now embellish the card. I used round cornered square piece of thick paper with any greeting stamp. My favorite paper flower. Then a banner with SMILE on it (I just stick banner shaped paper for each alphabet on wool thread). Then some glittered stars and butterfli...