Making Cards with Spirograph or Wild Gears
Got spiro-skills? Use them to make unique, hand-drawn greeting cards with your Spirograph or Wild Gears. These are all made with Wild Gears:
You can buy very nice blank cards and envelopes, pre-cut and folded, and draw designs on them. I found the Strathmore brand in an art supply shop, and I’ve seen them in office supply stores as well, or you can find Strathmore cards and envelopes on Amazon.
There are many different sizes of cards and a variety of paper types to choose from. Some have a textured surface, some are made of recycled fibers, some have “deckled” edges where the fibres hang out as if they were torn, as you can see in the photos. They all work. There are different colours too, from white to black. Some gel pens will mark on black.
I used metallic gel pens for most of these cards. They’re from an inexpensive set of gel pens I got on Amazon, though you could get them anywhere.
I added a matching design on the front and/or back of each envelope as well, making sure to leave room for the address. It was hard to draw over the deckle on the flap of the envelope, although it looks nice.
I’ve been pleased to use my cards for birthdays and thank-you’s, and they would also be suitable for sympathy cards. Even for Christmas, especially using stars. Here is an old video of mine on how to make a 5-pointed star with Spirograph. (That video now has 108,000 views and 525 likes. Wow, just wow.)
Thank you for creating this post – it’s really inspiring!
Awesome! Thanks for the helpful information 🙂
What weight of card is suitable for spirograph designs
Brian Pemberton
I can’t see that it would be an issue, unless you’re using the old ballpoint pens and pressing down and risking tearing the paper – I remember doing that as a kid with the really dense Spirograph designs, when the ink would saturate the paper and subsequent passes would tear at the fibres. With felt pens, that has never been a problem for me, even on ordinary paper. Any kind of cardstock should be able to resist the most aggressive ballpoint pen user! (Unless you use it for target practice LOL!)
It would be using 0.7mm fineliners on white card or paper
Thanks
What is the weight should you use for spirograph?
Please see my response above. If you want to make cards, any cardstock will do. For just making designs, I usually use cheap printer paper, unless I want to make something special like cards. It doesn’t matter. Use what you have, and if you don’t like it, get something else.
Is it just possible to buy this amazing tool with Amazon?
Realy sad!I cant enter to my Account there because i changed my telefonnumber…
Wild Gears is not sold through Amazon.
Thank you for the tip!
But what brought me to the decission to otder the “Super S…” is the existence of rails! The possibility to create the perfect ornament around everything…
…they called it perhaps “tracks”, not rails…
You’re getting closer… they’re called “racks”. (Rails x tracks = racks.)
Enjoy!