Character Father's Day Cards, Belated

 

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I created two Father's Day cards with a special request of One Piece which is the recipient's favorite. I am not familiar with One Piece so I have to research this online. 

The first card is a pop up stand card created using the Pixie Dust Designs Stand up Pop up Card die set which I recently bought. I was attracted to this die set because it reminds me of the Hallmark pop up cards. I was curious on how to use this. This is my second try using this die. On my first try, I used a light weight patterned paper. Thinking that it will not withstand the weight of the main element, I doubled the die cuts for the pop up mechanism. I adhered the two die cuts together. It was not a good idea. It was hard to slip the paper through the slits. IT might work if I cut the slits wider. 

Another thing that did not work is my main element has the same width as the large half circle die cut. I did not have enough area to add a design to this die cut which was supposed to hold the pirate ship.

On my second try, I used an 80 lb blue cardstock which just worked fine. The cardstock slipped through the slits without problem. Because of the weaved design, it was able to hold the main element upright.

I also cut a larger half circle to hold the image. I used the Cricut machine to cut this piece. I used one of the Pop Up die cuts as a guide for cutting the slits on this large half-moon die cut. 

Having a larger center piece allowed me to embellish the half cicle with waves cut using the Cricut. I heat embossed some of the waves using Judikins Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder. After I adhered the main element, I adhered the waves to the half circle piece making sure to avoid the slits. It is easier to embellish this piece when it is removed from the weaving mechanism.

For the sentiment, I die cut a banner on black cardstock using a die from Lawn Fawn. I die cut two pieces. I heat embossed the sentiment to this banner. The sentiment stamp is also from Lawn Fawn. I trimmed two pieces of acetate strips. I sandwiched these strips in between the two banners keeping in mind the distance between these strips. I adhered the strips behind the first half circle pop up using a double adhesive tape. 

I added black Ranger Enamel glue to the eyes of some of the characters.

For the second card, my design was inspired by trading cards. I trimmed several red and green cardstocks. The main front panel is a green cardstock cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I trimmed a red cardstock at 2 1/8" x 5 1/2". I trimmed a darker red cardstock and a darker green cardstock at 2" x 4 3/4". I added details to these pieces. I heat embossed a Blank Page Muse clock on the red piece. I embossed the green cardstock with an Altenew Linen embossing folder and lightly sanded it. I trimmed the green cardstock shorter to accomodate the numbers. 

I die cut the numbers on white cardstock. I die cut three pieces of each number and adhered it on top of each other for some dimension.

I heat embossed the sentiment on black cardstock using white embossing powder. I trimmed this into a sentiment strip. 

I added tiny details of the circle and hexagon which can be seen on a trading card.

I hope you like today's cards. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.