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Paper Shirt Card

Written and Created by PaperCraftCentral Susan

Make an easy paper shirt card for the man in your life. I find it a great design to use for masculine cards, though you can of course adjust the colours and style of the shirt to suit anyone!

Origami Shirt

The beauty of this paper shirt card is that you can customise it to suit your recipient's personality or the occasion.

  • Imagine a relaxed, Hawaiian Island escape. The shirt becomes a Hawaiian flower print one!
  • Imagine someone just being granted membership to his favourite club. The congratulations card has a shirt on it in the club's colours! It even has a logo on the pocket!
  • Imagine a graduation or formal occasion. The shirt has a tie or a bow tie! 
  • Imagine you have a man who always wears a certain shirt and you find just the designer series paper in that pattern. You can make that shirt out of paper!

Customisation is only limited by the demands of the special occasion.

Paper Shirt Card Instructions

For this paper shirt card project, I started with a normal sized card base (10.5cm x 15cm, or 4" x 6") in Basic White cardstock. Then I gathered the following supplies:

Here's what to do:

Here's what I did, step by step:

  • Cut a piece of designer series paper at 10.5cm x 14.5cm (4" x 5.75")
  • Cut the designer series paper in half portrait-wise, to make the two halves of the shirt
  • Fold out at the top middle of the two sections of designer series paper to make the shirt collar (measure down and mark the same point ot fold from for each of the shirt halves)
  • Adhere the two pieces of designer series paper to the front of the card with Tombow liquid glue or your chosen adhesive, overlapping them in the middle to make the shirt close properly
  • Make a bow tie with the bow builder punch, then adhere it to the card front with a glue dot or two If you do not have a punch or die to make a bow, you can make one with a paper strip. I'll post those instructions at the end
  • Add buttons to the shirt front, adhering them with glue dots too
  • Make a pocket out of your coordinating cardstock, cut to the size you like (mine is 3.5cm x 3cm or 1 1/2" x 1 1/4" ) and draw a flap on it with your Stampin' Write! marker. 
  • I added faux stitching too, then stamped my greeting on my pocket and adhered it to my project with Stampin' Dimensionals
  • Make a handkerchief for your pocket. I made mine out of Basic White cardstock. Start with a small square  (3cm x 3cm or 1 1/4" x 1 1/4") and fold two corners under, leaving a point at the top of your handkerchief, just as though you were folding a real, cloth handkerchief. Then add your handkerchief to your pocket with a glue dot
  • Add sentiments to the inside of your card
  • Take a picture of your card to upload and show me your project (see form below)
  • You're all done!

I hope you have a good time with this fun way to make a special paper shirt card for your favourite man. And I hope you show me what you make. I am sure I have not thought of all the special occasions this idea would suit (get it? Suit. I crack me up). Remember you can use this idea on a scrapbook layout too or adjust it to suit female or child cards.

For other types of masculine cards, I have some more ideas to help you.

And if you need supplies, be sure to visit SusanSalutations if you live in Australia, or the main Stampin' Up! site to find demonstrators in other countries.


How to make a paper bow without a punch

The picture below shows the steps you need to make a paper bow, working left to right from the card.

Paper Bow Steps

Here's an explanation for the picture above, step by step, but scroll down if you would rather see a video instead.

What you will need:

  • A strip of cardstock or designer series paper. I chose one that is 1.5cm (1") wide by 6" (15cm) long
  • Fold the piece you want to make the bow out of in half lengthwise and cut in an arc from the folded edge to the unfolded edge, flip and do the same to the other side. NOTE: Do not cut ALL of the folded edge off
  • Open the piece out
  • Bring the pointed ends to the fold and glue in place
  • Cut a smaller strip of cardstock or dsp to wrap around the middle of the bow, adhere it together at the back
  • Add your tie to your project

You can alter the size of your bows to suit your project. Make them shorter and thinner, to make smaller bows, or wider and longer, to make bigger bows such as one you would place on a gift box.

You could also make a ribbon bow to use on your shirt card. Just tie your ribbon into a bow and add it with a glue dot to the shirt!

Below is a video I made to show you how this is all done:

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