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Laptop Card!
This Laptop Card is the perfect card for the computer addict!!! Easy to personalise, and easy to make!
Cut a piece of card 19.5 x 30 cm for the outside cover. Fold it in half.
Now use the template below to cut out the middle pop-
It is really easy to make the screen. You could even open a word document and type
your special message there to appear on your screen – the friend I made this card
for has an E-
Create the screen you want for the background.
Now press and hold down your CTRL key – while holding it down press your PRTSC SYSRQ button, which is the print screen button.
Now open a Word document, and set your paper layout to landscape. Press CTRL and V together, and your computer screen picture will appear! You can drag the corners to make it smaller or bigger.
You can now attach this to the solid part of your cut out template.
Fold your scored lines to weaken the folds.
Now place your pop-
Now open out your laptop card cover on your desk.
Take the backing off the thin section at the end, and attach it to the right of the fold, making sure the rest of the card is in line with the cover.
Now fold these two sections over.
Take the backing paper off your double sided tape, and keeping the insert very flat, fold the right hand side of the card over to the double sided tape, and smooth onto it. That’s the laptop made!
For the keyboard, I cut out squares of silver card, and stamped letters on them to make my birthday message.
The cover was made more interesting by cutting a piece of card 19.5 x 15 cm and shoving it through the Cuttlebug a couple of times. I then attached a metal Happy Birthday embellishment.
You could also do this by typing letters in a word document spaced apart, and cutting them out.
