Jude O'Connell
Fairy Card #1
November 4th 2008 02:08
A cute flowery fairy card that will delight all fairy fans. Simple and easy to make, you can personalise it to be your own.
Making the Fairy
Materials Required
1. Small piece of skin-coloured card.
2. Scissors
3. Piece of patterned ribbon, approx 3.5cm long and 1.5cm wide.
4. Thin black marker
5. Texta's - pink, dark yellow
6. Pink Embroidery Cotton - approx 40cm length
7. White Card
8. Paper glue (and double-sided tape - optional)
9. Fairy wings - eg. sequins, glittery paper (see below)
10 Piece of white card measuring 15cm x 21 cm
11. Flower stamp and pink or purple ink pad (Rainbow ink pad preferable but not necessary) I used a flower stamp from a pack called “Flowers stamps by rhonna farrer” made by Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps.
12. Piece of pink or purple paper measuring approx 10cm x 10cm. (I used shiny paper)
Instructions
1. Draw a circle of diameter 1.5cm on skin-coloured card, and cut out the circle shape.
Hint - I used a silver sequin of that diameter to trace around.
2. Cut a piece of ribbon 3.5cm long. Using scissors, trim it to a triangle shape.
Hint - Mark a point at one end of the ribbon half-way across the ribbon's width. Draw an imaginary line from each of the two corners of the opposite end of the ribbon to this point. Cut along these two imaginary lines.
Draw a face on the small circle shape that was cut out in step one, using a thin black marker and a pink texta.
3. Make hair for the fairy using the embroidery cotton. Fold the cotton into 5cm lengths (approx 7 times), and using a 5cm length of the same cotton, tie a knot in middle of the lengths (tying them together). Cut the loops at the ends of the folds.
4. Using glue or double-sided tape, stick the ribbon body and fairy face down onto the piece of white card.
5. Using a dark yellow texta, draw in the fairies arms and legs. Glue down your chosen wings onto the fairy.
Hint - I used wing shaped sequins from a pack of mixed sequins. You could cut out wings from any glittery paper, see-through papers work well. If you have trouble drawiing your own wings, use the template given below. You could print it directly onto the paper you would like to use, or onto plain paper and transfer the image with tracing paper or carbon paper, or using a light box.
Printing Instructions
Click on the image below to bring up the full-size image.
Choose "file", and click on "print preview"
Click on the small arrow next to 100%, and go down to 30%
Click on the printer symbol to start printing
6. Glue the hair down on the fairy.
Here are three fairy examples...
Putting The Card Together
1. Fold the white card in half. Place the card on a piece of scrap paper, and stamp the flower image all over the card. Make sure that you stamp some of the images partially over the edges of the card (see picture).
2. Trim the fairy picture you have made above, so that it has a margin of approx 0.5cm around the fairy, to a rectangular shape. Measure the dimensions of this rectangle, and then cut a piece of purple paper with dimensions 1cm larger in width and length than the fairy shape. (This will give a border of 0.5cm of purple around the edge of the fairy).
Glue the piece of purple paper down onto your flower patterned card, at an angle (see picture)
3. Glue the fairy picture over the purple rectangle.
Flower Fairy
Making the Fairy
Materials Required
1. Small piece of skin-coloured card.
2. Scissors
3. Piece of patterned ribbon, approx 3.5cm long and 1.5cm wide.
4. Thin black marker
5. Texta's - pink, dark yellow
6. Pink Embroidery Cotton - approx 40cm length
7. White Card
8. Paper glue (and double-sided tape - optional)
9. Fairy wings - eg. sequins, glittery paper (see below)
10 Piece of white card measuring 15cm x 21 cm
11. Flower stamp and pink or purple ink pad (Rainbow ink pad preferable but not necessary) I used a flower stamp from a pack called “Flowers stamps by rhonna farrer” made by Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps.
12. Piece of pink or purple paper measuring approx 10cm x 10cm. (I used shiny paper)
Instructions
1. Draw a circle of diameter 1.5cm on skin-coloured card, and cut out the circle shape.
Hint - I used a silver sequin of that diameter to trace around.
2. Cut a piece of ribbon 3.5cm long. Using scissors, trim it to a triangle shape.
Hint - Mark a point at one end of the ribbon half-way across the ribbon's width. Draw an imaginary line from each of the two corners of the opposite end of the ribbon to this point. Cut along these two imaginary lines.
Draw a face on the small circle shape that was cut out in step one, using a thin black marker and a pink texta.
3. Make hair for the fairy using the embroidery cotton. Fold the cotton into 5cm lengths (approx 7 times), and using a 5cm length of the same cotton, tie a knot in middle of the lengths (tying them together). Cut the loops at the ends of the folds.
4. Using glue or double-sided tape, stick the ribbon body and fairy face down onto the piece of white card.
5. Using a dark yellow texta, draw in the fairies arms and legs. Glue down your chosen wings onto the fairy.
Hint - I used wing shaped sequins from a pack of mixed sequins. You could cut out wings from any glittery paper, see-through papers work well. If you have trouble drawiing your own wings, use the template given below. You could print it directly onto the paper you would like to use, or onto plain paper and transfer the image with tracing paper or carbon paper, or using a light box.
Printing Instructions
Click on the image below to bring up the full-size image.
Choose "file", and click on "print preview"
Click on the small arrow next to 100%, and go down to 30%
Click on the printer symbol to start printing
Fairy Wing Template
6. Glue the hair down on the fairy.
Here are three fairy examples...
Putting The Card Together
1. Fold the white card in half. Place the card on a piece of scrap paper, and stamp the flower image all over the card. Make sure that you stamp some of the images partially over the edges of the card (see picture).
2. Trim the fairy picture you have made above, so that it has a margin of approx 0.5cm around the fairy, to a rectangular shape. Measure the dimensions of this rectangle, and then cut a piece of purple paper with dimensions 1cm larger in width and length than the fairy shape. (This will give a border of 0.5cm of purple around the edge of the fairy).
Glue the piece of purple paper down onto your flower patterned card, at an angle (see picture)
3. Glue the fairy picture over the purple rectangle.
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