Ten Two Studios

To make your instant card, you’ll need:

• From Ten Two Studios, an instant card sheet. For my samples, I used the Instant Winter Card sheet.

• A sheet of white cardstock for printing.
• A glue stick.
• A 2×3 inch plastic bag. These are usually sold in the jewelry section of craft stores.
• Double stick tape or red liner tape.
• Glitter, small beads, sequins, rhinestones, and other magical things to fill the bag.

Print out the card sheet on cardstock, and cut out the pieces. You’ll need the large card front, smaller card sentiment, teabag-shaped insert, and one long slogan for each card you make. Each card comes with two slogans.

Center the sentiment block on the card front, and glue it in place.

Center the slogan strip on the card, just below the word instant, and glue it in place. You can either trim away the excess on the sides of the slogan strip once it’s glued in place, or you can fold the little tabs back and glue them to the back of the card.

Fold the colored rectangle on the teabag-shaped insert upward, and glue it down.

Fold the flap portion of the insert down, but do not glue it yet.

Use the folded insert as a guide to trip away the top of the small plastic bag. The bag should be just a hair shorter than the insert when trimmed.

Slide the insert into the plastic bag.

Leave the insert in the bag, and drop your magical bits in, in front of the insert. Filling the bag with the insert in place will keep your goodies in front, rather than hiding behind the insert.

Apply double stick tape to the flap of the insert, and stick it down to the front of the plastic bag.

Apply two lines of double stick tape on the back of the teabag, at the top and bottom, and stick the teabag onto the card.

You can use the card as is, or use it as a card front, and adhere it to a cardstock card.