These lovely new baby cards are simple to make but look really effective.
To make these cards you will need the following tools and materials:
- Woodware Super Craft Punch – Scalloped Square
- Woodware Large Craft Punch – Pram
- Woodware Large Craft Punch – Teddy Bear
- Pearlised pink or pearlised blue card (some folded into DL size card blank and some extra for punching scalloped squares)
- Pink or blue ribbon or braid
- Handmade mulberry paper light pink and/or handmade mulberry paper light blue
- Padded Material hearts
- Sticky foam pads/sticky foam tape and craft glue
- Scissors
Directions:
1. Use scissors to cut a length of braid 2-3 cm longer than the height of the card blank. Use craft glue to carefully stick the ribbon or braid to the card down the left hand side wrapping the ends over the inside of the card top and bottom. You may wish to weight the card down until the glue has dried to keep the ribbon/braid straight.
2. Punch out three scalloped squares for each card you are making from the A4 pearlised/plain card using the blue super scalloped square punch.
3. Apply sticky foam pads or sticky foam tape cut to size to the back of all three squares and stick them down the middle of the card in a straight line with equal gaps between them.
4. Punch out a pram and a teddy bear shape for each card you are making from the handmade mulberry paper using the green large craft punches.
5. Use craft glue to stick the mulberry teddy bear shape, the mulberry pram shape and a padded material heart each to the centre of one of the scalloped squares. You can use a large lever craft punch – heart and use that to punch out a shape from the handmade mulberry paper to replace the padded material heart if you wish.
6. As an optional extra at this stage, you can add a paper insert using either double sided tape or glue to stick it in place, this will help to disguise the overlapping of the braid.
Completed cards in pink and blue colour schemes:
We have shown above step by step how to make the pink baby girl card, to make the blue baby boy card simply repeat the steps using the blue colours.
You can also add additional embellishments if you wish such as a row of small pastel pink or pastel blue brads (mini round brads – pastel) down the right hand side or along the bottom would look good or alternatively a pale pink ribbon bow or light blue ribbon bow added at an angle to the bottom right hand corner would also look lovely.
Card idea by Janine