I mentioned, in my Summer plans, that I wanted to make some cards this Summer as I haven't done for ages. One of my greatest holiday joys is being able to make a big crafty mess and getting some hand-made cards prepared.
Sometimes, I don't have a specific idea in mind and I start off with some type of material.
In this case, I opened all the cards from the kids at school and was left with a pile of envelopes, some of which were some rather nice colours. It always seems a shame to chuck them straight into the recycling despite the fact I have a heaving craft stash. I feel that I owe it to the pretty coloured envelopes to try and use them somehow.
So, below, I made the two cards out of 5 different coloured envelopes I received.
These are incredibly easy to make and the only TOOLS I used for these (aside from those the standard layman might have like scissors and glue) were a circle punch and a set of alphabet punches.
The cones were made from a brown textured envelope and the letters and ice-cream boules themselves were made by punching circles from a pink, white, cream and yellow envelope (plus some dark brown paper I have). You just need 5 identical circles (which you could cut by hand if you lacked a punch).
You just fold them in half and blue a half circle to another one 5 times and then fan them out and glue down onto the cone.
The sprinkles were just made by hand.
What do you think?
Do these designs work? Would you fancy an ice-cream card?
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