Inside of card
Supplies needed:
Silver craft paint – I purchased cheap .59 paint at Michaels Crafts
Dish washing liquid
Clear Contact paper or clear laminating sheet
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Mix silver acrylic paint with dish washing liquid – 2 parts paint to 1 part liquid.
I added a drop of black paint to help darken the silver. Paint the clear laminating sheet (or whichever clear sticky paper) with your paint mixture – you might need to paint two coats. Let completely dry.
Cut out five – 2-inch circles from the sheet (I used my cricut machine) and peel off the backing. On the inside of the card, cover each printed circle with the scratch off sticker.
Include a craft stick inside the scratch off card and now it’s ready to give to your favorite dad!
This is an easy project that your kids will enjoy making! Of course, you could always give the card as is… but dad will have tons of fun scratching off his fathers day card to reveal the terms of endearment. The possibilities are endless with what you can do with these scratch off stickers!
Card stock paper is ideal for this card – regular printer paper is to lightweight.
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Tips:
I experimented with several types of clear sticky backed plastics i.e. contact paper, laminating sheet, mailing label and packaging tape. They all worked except the mailing label – that surface was not shiny and the paint wouldn’t scratch off. The packaging tape was easy to use if that’s all you have on hand. To make the tape easier to paint, I taped packaging tape (2 inch wide) onto wax paper and painted the silver paint mixture onto the tape. I had a laminating sheet on hand so that’s what I ended up using.
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Two inch scratch off stickers are needed to cover the circles inside the free Design Dazzle Father’s Day card. This Father’s Day card printable and tutorial was originally posted in June 2009.
Cute! Love the scratcher stuff. Great to put some lotto scratchers in with the card too!
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Had heard about "scratch off" cards being DIY-able…but never saw the process and materials till now. Thanks for such a great post!
P.S. How do you keep the brush strokes from being visible on the dried silver paint? Would making 3 coats do the trick?
Lisa
I would guess an extra coat of paint would work. The scratch off part looked fine in real life – it can be tricky taking pictures of it.
Quick question for you – when you say dish washing liquid, do you mean for an automatic dish washer or the kind you do to manually do your dishes?
cute stuff. i really love it.. thanks
This is such a great idea! I want to make some of these with my boys for their grandpas too. Very inspiring project Toni!
The liquid dish soap. It makes the paint easy to scratch off.
This is really so cool! I'm so impressed that I'm linking to your post on my blog.
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What a lovely scratch card! Know what? I love the message of the card! Your dad will love it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Lovely :)…Its a wonderful scratch card for someone special to express your feelings in a best way ;)…
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Love these.. thanks so much!
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Omg! Wow! What an amazing idea. I am going to do this win my kids. Thnx so much for sharing!
This is so great idea. I need the Scratch Cards Printing machine. Where i can get the best one?
yeah its a great idea for fathers day. we can crate scratch off cards for own dad.
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