You may well be asking yourself, ‘what is a hybrid card?’.

The dictionary definition is:

hy·brid

You are obviously aware that most crafters make cards with crafting materials but digital crafting is also on the up an up, in that all the crafting is done via your computer and digital images on screen.  Well, hybrid crafting is just a combination of the two, i.e. printing off digital images to be added to your actual card as can be seen with this Eighteenth Birthday Card.  The card has been made from a template, the text is hand-drawn and the teddy is a digital image from a soon to be released range of digital downloads from PCJDigital.com.

In order to make this card, download and print off this ‘18′ template.

Take a piece of landscape A4 card and rather than fold in half for the card, measure 13cm and mark.  Then score to be folded.  The front of the card should be a bit bigger than the back.

After you have used the template to draw out the ‘18′ on the card front, select the patterned paper for the front of the card.  Apply adhesive to the front of the card and adhere the ‘18′ then cut around the number.

Decorate the blank ‘18′ how you wish.  Light brown ink was applied sparingly to the card front and then sanded to give a distressed look.  Some doodling and gems were also added.  Your card is now ready for your digital image.  The bear image was printed off in colour and then cut out and adhered to the card front with foam pads.

The text was first hand drawn in pencil, then a permanent liner was applied over the top of the pencil, which was then rubbed out.  The text was then coloured in with watercolour pencils and glitter pens.

I’m sure you will agree that for a Hybrid Card, it works very well.

TIP: as this card is bigger than an A5 card, you will either have to put it in an A4 envelope or why not make your own envelope?

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

If you use this Freebie, take a photo and send us a picture! submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

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