I've been commissioned to make 50 cards for a friend (by November, so I'm good) and a few are for a 10-year old boy who writes thank you notes for gifts (does anyone really do that anymore? I'm so impressed).
So I was trying to think of themes for his cards, and decided on Whale Done for one of them:
This is a "fun fold" card, meaning that it opens a little differently than a standard card. The card base is 5-1/2" x 7" (instead of 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Take a look:
Isn't that fun?
When creating this card, I used a piece of the Whale of a Time patterned paper. I cut it to 5-3/8" x 4", and then split it into two pieces - one is 5-3/8" x 2-7/8" and the other is 5-3/8" x 1-1/8". This allowed me to continue the pattern across the front of the card, over the two panels. And that 5/8" strip from the top of the paper is along the bottom inside:
I stamped the whale using Pretty Peacock ink, and punched it out using the Whale Builder Punch.
It's mounted to a Layering Circle on which some seaweed is stamped along with a Granny Apple Green greeting.
And check out that smiling sea turtle! He is one of the images on the patterned paper - I used my Scan-n-Cut to cut him out so I could add him to the card.
I would love to get a card like this from one of my grandkids! Wouldn't you?
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