How to make a greeting card?

Assalamualaikum and hi everyone!
Red Craft is going to show you how to make a very simple greeting card, which is suitable for any occasion!
To make a greeting card, you are free to choose any size of the card you want to make by adjusting the length and height of the papers you are going to use.
This greeting card is suitable to be made for birthdays, new years, wedding anniversary, as a get well soon card, etc.
Now let's begin!

What you need:
1) A white, A4 paper
2) A designated A4 paper( which is suitable in making a card)
3) A black-coloured paper
4) Ruler
5) Pencil
6) A pair of scissors / Paper cutter

For the design, you need:
1) ***Coloured markers / Magic ink pens / water colour / Colour pencils
2) ***Coloured papers (any colour according to your drawing)
3) Glue

***These materials are optional. You can choose anything to decorate your card.

Steps in making a greeting card:



1) Measure your designated paper according to the measurement shown below.



2) Cut the paper according to the solid line. The dashed line is where you need to fold the paper into half.



3) Now , fold the paper according to the dashed line.



4) Put the paper that you've cut aside. Now, do the same for the white, A4 paper.
( the same measurement as the first paper)



5) You'll get something that looks like this. Notice that when the white paper is inserted in the designated paper, they fit each other nicely.



6) Now, take the designated paper and draw a 6x5 cm rectangle on the front page.



7) Open up the fold, lay the paper flat and cut the lines that are marked with red.



8) Open the left and right flaps and crease well.





9) Notice that we get a card with a window!

10) Take your black-coloured paper and cut a long strip for about less than 0.5cm width. These strips are for the window's borders.



11) Paste them around the window as shown below.



12) Now, cut a smaller width of black strip and paste two short strips at the edge of the flaps.



13) Put the paper aside. Sketch a rectangle on the white, A4 paper with the same measurement as the window that you have made earlier . You can draw and decorate your card in the rectangle.



14) Apply some glue around your drawing excluding the rectangle that you have sketched. (outside the green lines)



15) Stick it inside the designated paper. (behind the window)



16) You can see that you have a card with 4 blank pages.



17) There you go, a greeting card with a window! Now you can write your greetings on the card!




Useful tips:
1) You can also use beads, ribbons and others to decorate your window.
2) Here is another example of the greeting cards that I have made.