DIY - Scratch a wish cards

It took me a while to finish this post, but I promised you some explanation on how to make the "scratch a wish cards". And here it is! My very first DIY tutorial :)

I took pictures of every step in the proces of making both the cards and the envelopes.
Let's start off with the cards...

Step 1: First you'll need to cut your piece of paper. Ofcourse it can be any size you want. Mine are 8,5 cm to 7 cm. The background can be a small illustration in some light colors. Wanterpaint is grat to use when creating the background! Let the colors blend with some water, and you have a great result in no time...

Step 2: Design your letters. I made the layout with indesign, but you can use any program you like, or you can just handletter the words. If I may give you a great tip, go to dafont.com where you can download a lot of cool lettertypes for free! It makes handlettering so much easier...

Step 3: Take a piece of carbon paper and print the words to your paper. Don't forget to mark the corners of the boxes where you will write your wishes. I'll make it a lot easier to draw the later.

Step 4: Check out if you copied everything.

Step 5: Use a black pen to color the letters on the card. Make sure the printing isn't visible anymore.

Step 6 & 7: Now connect the corners of the boxes with your pen.

Step 8: Look up three beautiful wishes you would love to sent anyone. write them in the boxes you just drew.

Step 9: If you want so, you can leave a message behind on the back of the card. I ask the finder to let me know where he or she found the card and wich wish was scratched.

Step 10: When you're happy about everything you've written and drawed, you can laminate your cards. It's absolutely necessary to do that. Otherways you an not add a layer to scratch away (wich is the point of the scratch cards ;) )

Step 11: Time now for the finishing touch. Give the wishes a coat of  typex to hide the messages. It covers well and is easy to scratch away. Once dry, make sure you can't read the messages underneath. If they're still vissable, just add an extra coat.

Step 12: tadaaaaaam! Ready to hide away :)

I think you can just copy all the cards, and that wouldn't be any problem, but it just gives me a great feeling to put so much effort in it.


Once you get the cards, the envelopes aren't that difficult anymore. Here's a little help to make them succeed...

 The start is probably the toughest part. I made a template in hard paper to reuse.
format: 11,5 cm x 11,5 cm.
Once you cutted out that square, just add the diagonals. Now draw a rectangle as big as your finished 'scratch a wish' card in the square.
Try to fold that into an envelope.

 Now you can draw the square on some paper you want to use to make your envelope. When folding your template while it stays in the same place, you can draw the folding lines on your paper.
That gives you an idea where you will have to fold your paper.

 Like shown here. First you have to cut out the square ofcourse. Then fold your paper on the lines you've drawn.

 One side of the envelope must be glued.

Grab back the carbon paper so you can put your design for the back of the envelope on the envelope (afterall, you want people to know they can pick the card up!)

 Now, just like you did with the card, colour the letters with a black pen.

 Hooray! The envelope is ready to use!
Since I noticed people sometimes look at the cards, but don't pick them up, I recently added a 'please pick me up' line on the bottom of the envelope...

Now put your cards in the envelopes and spread your wishes!









I would be very glad to see your results if you made some cards yourself! And it would be so cool to know where you left the cards behind :)
If you have any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact me! I'll love to respond your messages!

With love
Inow. x