Tuesday was a bit boring. We went for a little play date with our neighbor girl. Went swimming in the pool and all that - Brent still getting his potty training down. Still not fast enough for me.. Daddy got few calls - so he was gone the whole day.
But at least I can post the cards Brent and I made for grandpa and daddy on Father's day.
Ingredients:
Construction paper. three pages - preferably different colors
Tissue paper
Cord (like bracelet making stuff)
glue
glitter
ribbon
paint
tape
pen!
First we put the pieces of paper and tissue together and cut the edges together - so that they are almost exactly the same size.
The Inside Piece:
We traced Brent's hand prints on one of the brightly colored pieces of paper and cut them out. In this case they were yellow, with marbling effect.
Then we took the piece of paper that was going to be on the inside and used paint to paste Logan's hand prints on that.
While the paint was still wet - we applied glitter.
We glued Brent's hand print cutouts to the outside of the paper, and let it dry.
Finished effect was a simple card with glued on hand prints - and painted hand prints on the inside.
After it all dried we put tissue paper around it.
The Outside Piece:
The outer piece of paper got decorated thus:
we wrote We <3 Daddy! with glue, and applied ample amount of glitter all different colors to make it look awesome.
Then we wrapped the ribbon all around the entire page (topmost) to give it a nice border.
We secured it with tape on the inside of the card, but also applied thin helping of glue all under it to make it stick in place. We only applied glue on the INSIDE of the card however - our ribbon has small wire running through it - so we left the outside glue-less as it keeps itself in shape.
We put the outside finished piece around the tissue paper.
So now we had three layer card. We <3 Daddy visible on top of the card, inside left was blank, inside right was tissue paper, > flip the tissue page - there you can see Brent's hand cut out pasted on the inside right, > flip the card page and you get to the middle of the card where Logan pasted one hand print (or two actually) on each page. If you flipped to the next page again - you'd see the other hand print cut out on left side, then tissue etc.
We used scissors on the spine of the card and cut out tiny little triangles all the way up the back, about inch or less apart. We weren't measuring.
Then we threaded it together and secured loose ends together in an inconspicuous part of the card with tape.
Brent was able to help me thread grandpa's - but I put too many holes - so he got bored.
Tip: when making this - prepare a lot of this in advance, expect GIANT MESS with glitter, keep the holes on the back to a minimum (grandpa's got ten, daddy's got three LOL)
The finished piece had a ton of Brent's stickers - for he helped decorate.
As you can see Grandpa got his ribbon as the spine cover, secured tightly with tape as glue didn't work!
At any rate kids - you did great, thanks for all the help, it came out awesome. Brent added some awesomeness later by painting some stuff inside daddy's card, finally making it his piece of art. (You do so indiscriminately that I almost couldn't see my own writing!)
Everyone sure liked it tho.
Including you kids :)
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