Art Project #51: Making Homemade Cards

The younger boys had been asking if they could make cards.  I had no arts and crafts projects planned for our 100 Days of Art so I said sure!

My craft room isn't that large though so I told them they would have to work one at a time.  



Evan wanted to go first and he wanted to make a card that used my Cricut.  The boys just love watching my Cricut at work!

Evan decided to make two cards; one for each of his brothers.  He also decided they were going to Christmas cards.  We started with the card base.  He chose red for them both.  

We folded the cards and then he picked a polar bear for the front of Ian's card and a penguin for Alec's card.  We cut them both out of white. We cut a second penguin out of black so we could add more detail. 



We added glitter and dimension to each cut out too. 

Adding details to the penguin; isn't he darling?!

Using the tape runner to put the card all together. 
Then Alec got his turn in the craft room.  He decided to make a card that combined rubber stamps and my Cricut.  He cut out a branch and an owl using brown cardstock then decided to use one of my punches to make a moon.  He filled in the whole background with a star stamp.

Stamping away 
Their completed cards:





Other Projects in this series:
 
Project 2: Tissue paper flowers
Project 3: Star Wars Crafts
Project 5: Floral pens
Project 6: Watercolor outlines
Project 13: Water gun art
Project 14: Watercolor Kits
Project 15: Dragonfly Silhouettes 
Project 16: Painting pet rocks 
Project 17: Spray Paint Resist
Project 18: Water bottle windsock
Project 20: Tin can windsock 
Project 21: Firework glue art
Project 22: Qixel art kit
Project 26: Spray Painted Canvas
Project 28: Tin Foil Art
Project 29: Oil Pastel Bubbles 
Project 32: Drip Painted Pots
Project 33: Sun Art 
Project 36: Art Museum field trip. 
Project 39: Painting Pikachu 
Project 40: How to Draw Books
Project 42: Splatter Paint Canvas
Project 46: Tissue Paper Leaf Art
Project 50: Drawing Cat Faces 
Project 51: Making Homemade cards
Project 53: 3-D printing 
Project 54: Gingerbread Train
Project 57: Candy trees 
Project 66: Washi Tape Cookie Cutter Ornaments
Project 67: Learning Origami 
Project 68: Art Books and Artist Study
Project 69: Playing Go Fish Art
Project 70: Edible Chocolate Art
Project 71: Geometric Hearts 
Project 72: Marble Swirled Hearts
Project 73: Solid Tempera Paint Drawings
Project 74: Qixels 3-D Maker
Project 75: Making Cupcakes
Project 76: Window Marker Art
Project 77: Shamrock Zentangles on Scratch Paper
Project 78: Painted Pandas 
Project 79: Minecraft Digital Art
Project 80: Charcoal Drawings
Project 81: Chalk Pastel Lighthouse Drawings
Project 82: Dying Easter Eggs With Bleeding Tissue Paper
Project 83: Painting Pottery
Project 84: Drawing En Plein Air
Project 85: African Savannah Paintings
Project 86: Woven CD Garden Decoration
Project 87: Working with Clay
Project 88: Art Lessons with Art Academy
Project 89: Melted Bead Wind Chimes
Project 90: Perler Bead Projects
Project 91: Ivory Soap Carvings
Project 92: Ice Cube Tie Dye
Project 93: String Art
Project 94: Multimedia Ocean Paintings 
Project 95: Balloon Splatter Painting
Project 96: Making Mosaic Stepping Stones
Project 97: Glass Bead and Glue Sun Catchers 
Project 98: Coloring Book Art
Project 99: Metal Stamped Bookmarks
Project 100: Water Balloon Art 

Comments

  1. Oh my word the glitter! so pretty!!

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    1. I am a sucker for glitter! I can not resist and so I was thrilled to add a bit of shine to his cards with him.

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  2. Handmade cards aer the best. You're brave to bring out the glitter! They turned out great

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    1. They are actually neater with the glitter than I am! I am usually covered.

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  3. You've all been busy!! I love handmade cards - never heard of a Cricut.

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    1. Oh we just love our cricut! It's an automated die cut machine and it works wonderful for cutting out all sorts of wonderful shapes and embellishments.

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  4. Beautiful! We'll be making some cards this week too, to send back home :)

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    1. Aw, I bet they'll be well received. I love getting non-bill mail.

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