Masculine Shirt & Tie Card

Hello!

Today we'll be waking through a step-by-step tutorial of a great looking shirt and tie card for the men in our lives. 

We were going through Pintrest (a ridiculous obsession; if you've never been on there DON'T GO! Save yourself!) looking for ideas for some men's cards that we needed when we happened upon one that seemed pretty easy and pretty cute at the same time! There weren't any dimensions with the one we found so here is what we came up with. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did! 

Let's get started...

Supplies You'll Need:

• Base Cardstock: 8 1/2" x 6 3/4"
• "Shirt" Cardstock:  1" x 5 1/2"  AND  4" x 5 1/2"
• "Tie" Patterned Paper: 2" x 2" AND 2" x 4 1/2"
• 1 Brad
• Adhesive
• Scissors (or cutting board)
• Scoreboard & bone folder
• Hole puncher

*** In this tutorial you'll probably notice that the "shirt" has texture on it. This was creating using a Cuttlebug and the Polka-dots folder. If you don't have one, but like the effect (as do we) that it gives; Michael's Craft Store (and probably Hobby Lobby or other craft store) has paper in stock by Bazzill Basics Paper that gives the exact same effect but it's already done! It's open stock and in lots of beautiful colors and if it's not on sale, it's $0.79 but check the website for a coupon to save you some money! And often they do have sales on open stock cardstock, so just do your homework first to save $$$. Enjoy! ***

** I apologize that it's a little blurred.**

Step 1: Take your Base card stock and lay the 8 1/2" wide side is against the measuring line. Score at 4 1/4" mark. Fold and run the bone folder against the fold line so that it's nice and crisp. Set aside for now.

Step 2: Take the 1" x 5 1/2" shirt paper out. This will be your shirt's collar. Lay it in front of you as shown. Mark the top of the 5 1/2" (the farthest side from you) at 1 1/2" from each side. Without turning the paper at all, we're going to make marks on the bottom of the 5 1/2" (the closest side to you). Mark the bottom at 1 1/4" from each side.

**I used heavy mark lines to show up on camera, but you'll want to make sure any marks get erased so that they don't show up on your final project.**

Step 3: Put your newly marked paper on your scoreboard. We're not going to be using the measuring line at the top of the board. Here you can see us lining up the marks to a ridge on a scoreboard then we'll score them. After one side is done, we'll line up the other marks and do the same.

Step 4:  Now we fold our lines. Before running the bone folder over your lines, you'll want to check that your shirt collar corners line up nicely. Sometimes things just come out a little wonky. So once you achieve this ... crease those folds!

Step 5: Now we move onto the tie! First we'll be working with the knot of the tie. Take your 2" x 2" paper and lay it in front of you. We're going to mark 1" on the side closest to you and then use that mark to draw a line to each opposite corner. You should now see a triangle. Cut out the sides, leaving the large triangle center as your knot.

Step 6: Now we'll work on the base of the tie. Take your 2" x 4 1/2" patterned tie paper and lay it in front of you so that the 2" portion is closest. You're again going to mark the 1" line on the side closest to you. Then you'll turn the paper 90 degrees and mark 1" up from the 2" side then go across from it and make the same mark. Return your paper to where it started. You should have the side with the three marks closest to you. On the side farthest from you, we're going to mark a 1/2" in from each side. 

Step 7: After you cut, you should end up with the above scraps and the perfect center tie!

Step 8: Lets start assembling!!! First we're going to attach the knot to the collar. Turn your collar over and place some adhesive (our favorite adhesive is our Advanced Tape Glider or ATG and you'll see it referenced a lot in future tutorials) on the collar's corners careful to only put adhesive where your knot will cover. We're going to line up the widest part of the triangle knot against the bottom of the collar line. Centering it in between the lapels.

Step 9: Attach the collar and tie to your shirt. On this shirt, one side has raised texture and the other has an embossed effect where the dots are inverted. You need to decide now which you want to be seen on your card. Which ever side you DO want, lay face up. Turn your collar and tie face down and give a generous amount of adhesive. Then line up the bottom of the "back" collar to the top of your shirt. Your collar should extend above your shirt.

Step 10: Now we're going to make a hole for our "tie clip" or in craft terms a brad. In most cases a hole punch would work great for making a hold for brads, however in this case, where I want the hole is too far for my hole punch to reach. Thankfully I have a trusty pin kept near my craft desk for such emergencies. 

Here's where we are now. Looks pretty good! Let's keep going!

Step 11: Now we're going to apply adhesive to the whole back side. Really go to town on this one because we want it to stick really good to our card back.

 

 

Voila! Our finished masculine card! We love it and we hope you do too!



**This isn't a standard size card. If you would like a tutorial on a matching envelope please feel free to let us know! Thanks!**

The 3 Chicks,

Hannah, Marisol & Joyce