Evening
friends
I
am sharing a card I have a feeling I may have shared before – I say
that because I just love making Pirate cards for little boys
Today
is Petes' grandson Thomas' 4th birthday
So
I thought a good excuse to make a shaped pirate card
The
card is designed by Evelyn Watts and was bought from
www.cardmakingdownloads.com
The
kit – as with most of these shaped cards kits consists of lots of
sheets – 2 to make the envelope, 1 for backing, 1 for decoupage, 1
is the main card and then 1 more for the insert
But
as I say time and again these kits are well worth all the printing
and cutting out!
I
started by spraying the back of the main card sheet with Crafters
Companion Stick & Stay – fixed this to a sheet of mid blue card
then sprayed the back of the backing paper and stuck that to the
reverse of the blue card giving the main card a patterned reverse!
I
then cut out the card and scored and folded it
Next
I cut out the insert – I had added a verse before it was printed –
so after cutting it was scored then folded and stuck inside the card.
Only
the decoupage to do – this was so easy as it was huge pieces – I
decided to use large sticky pads or I would have spent as long added
the tiny ones I normally use and removing their backs as I did making
the whole card!!!!
I
cut the 2 pieces that make up the envelope, scored and folded where
stated then made up using double sided tape – to avoid making a
mistake and wasting the sheets I rubbed a glue stick over the tape so
I could remove and reposition if I had to!!!
All
in all it went together perfectly!
One
silly error I made was spotted before I added – it was on the
insert – I made a spelling mistake – but luckily when I scored
and folded I opened it to check it was right and saw the mistake –
all I had to do was reprint and cut it out again.
I
took the photo's before I embellished the card so you will have to
trust me on this – I used glossy accents on the skull and
crossbones as well as the one on the hat, then the nose and bottle
cork.
I
used a quickie glue pen to edge the gold coins then covered with gold
glitter to make it all shiny
In
the photo's you will see the envelope has a blank area – that is
because I added the name and address before I printed it and didn't
want to show that on here!!!
Pete
& I loved the card – shame I cant say the same for his
daughter... she just said it arrived but he isn't in to pirates!!!!
Seems I cannot win no matter what so may as well just do what I like
anyway!!!
See
you tomorrow folks...
x
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