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Firstly, let me congratulate you, you’ve done well! You’re offering yourself and The Bubbly Community such a beautiful thing!!

But lets talk about making the best they can possibly be!

There is a little thing called Bleed that we need to establish. This is so the cards can be cut, cropped, trimmed and sliced to perfection. But how does this effect your design I hear you ask? Well it goes a little something like this…..

Although the size of your card, should be the fullsize of these shapes, (ie: 114mm by 162mm is the card when folded) it is what is in the blue area that is the most important!

You want to leave lots of room, so that the grey area can be cut away – so no important parts of your designs should be in here, like borders, words, logos, names, etc etc.

Nothing is cut away from the folds, so you’re right to put some art right to the edge, as we can see, in portrait and landscape.

You might want to make the grey area around 2mm thick, which will make your overall sizes 2mm and 4mm larger. But any sizes above the card’s proportions, will be fabulous! :)

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Pagoda Walker by Scott Robinson
Hot Tea by thickblackoutline
Your Majesty by Deon de Waal

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