Baby Card

One of my close friends had her baby yesterday and today the kids and I went to visit her and the baby at the hospital. I made last night a card for the baby, but again in the excitement of finishing it and getting the rest of the present sorted out I forgot to take a picture. However I do plan to go back and visit again and hopefully take a quick picture of the card.

In any case before making the actual card, I decided that I wanted to check that what I had in mind would work or not. So here is the trial card I made .......

I bought a pack card templates some time ago for the kids to do crafts with me. I have a pack of flowers, sea animals and some Easter templates too. This time I chose the sea animals which contained a whale, a dolphin, a crab, a fish and a seahorse months ago. You can use these template for anything, so I have been waiting for the opportunity to use one of these again (I used another template set with flowers that I have some months ago). I chose to use for the seahorse template for the trial.

What I did for the trial:

1. I cut the paper into squares of 2".


2. Since the paper had lines a didn't what them all go in the same direction, so I made the point of rotating the paper when ever I cut a strip to cut my squares. Then I pasted each square on top of the seahorse.


3. Once the template was covered and dried, I used a utility knife to cut out the excess.


4. Then I used a green gel pen and went around each square creating some faux stitching.


5. To finish it off a put goggle eye.

It looked really good, so then I decided to create the card for my friend.

The same as above, but I chose the whale template instead. Once I had the paper piecing done and the faux stitching finished, I decided to create the illusion of the whale blowhole. So here is how I managed to do that.





What I did for the final card:

1. I cut 3 pieces of wire in different colours and attach to the letters B O & Y
2. Then I used my oval punch and 1/2" circle punch to create the message "It's a ... " for the effect of bubbles.
3. Then I used a 1/4" circle punch to create little bubbles that I stack on to the wire with glue dots.

The effect was great and the card looked fantastic.

Anamaria

Birthday Card - Gone Fishing 3D Card

I made this card for my brother in law. I loved making this card, because I got to use pieces of cards that I have been keeping for months. I got the idea from various sites that I had seen over the last few months and I just wanted to put those together for him.







What I did:

1. I used some kraft card to cut 2 pieces the same size.
2. I scored 1/2" and then 3/4" on either side.
3. On the back section I put blue card stock on the bottom, then I used blue velum and tore pieces to represent the ocean and did the same with a brown/grey/green speckle paper piece to represent the sand.
4. On the top section I cut a square on the front like a window. I then cut a piece of a wood to represent the fishing rod.
5. Took a piece of fishing line and asked my husband to tie a small fishing hook on to it. I used a glue dot and dimensional to attach it to the card.
6. I used small letter stamps to write the message "Gone Fishing".
7. Then used my oval punch to cut the message out and my new oval scallop punch to matt the piece.
8. Used some dimensionals and attached it to the corner.
   

It look quite good. The reaction was better than I had imagined, so happy with the result.