My October is FULL of birthdays as you may have already notice from previous blog posts. The next card needed is for my youngest son, Mark, whose birthday is also October 8th. I have made many birthday cards for Mark over the past eight years of cardmaking, depicting his many talents and interests. . .vehicles, dirt bikes, tools, a bear beerfest, and Seahawks football are some ideas already used. I find as I work on other cards, my mind will subconsciously be thinking about designs that I might be able to use on upcoming cards needed. I pondered, "What shall I do for Mark this year? One interest that I have not yet covered is Mariners baseball. I wonder if I could make that work?"
When the time came to get started, the Mariner idea was right there with some half-formed ideas, knowing that I needed to keep it fairly simple as my time was limited due to an upcoming trip. For another birthday, I had been thinking of doing a simple cupcake card, but so far had not gone there. I began to do a little online surfing and "googled" baseball cupcakes, and out popped this picture...I was stoked...what a great idea.
My creative juice really began to move and jell. I had seen a punch art cupcake card using circle patterns to make the cupcake icing...see the link here, and thought baseball circles would work perfectly. Then my brain took another leap and thought. . .Mariner logo baseballs would be even cuter! From there, I was really on a roll and went looking for bats online as an embellishment addition. . . they leaped right into vertical layers for my cupcake liner. In addition, I did use them on the inside for an embellishment as well. Take a look below at the inside and outside of the card created when my juices finally simmered enough to finish my card for Mark. I think he will really like this new addition to his stash of Mom-made cards!
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ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful card you made! I was wondering if you could share how you made the baseball bats with the mariner's color and the baseball with the mariner's logo on it. My friend's birthday is coming up and I got him tickets to a game. If I could make this card it would go great with the gift.
Thank you =)
Just saw this...sorry. Belatedly. I found black & white line-art bats by Googling bats. I saved and then dropped the image into Microsoft Word and re-sized it to my needed size. I colored it with Copic markers, Then I copy/pasted the colored imaged to get the number I thought I might need...had extras so they went inside. Printed them onto white cardstock and fussy-cut each out. Glued them onto another piece of white cardstock fussy-cut to a cupcake holder with a domed cupcake shape. Then punched out the baseballs with a circle punch that I had printed from a Goggled, colored baseball that I had also copy/ pasted on a Word document and printed. Hope that makes sense.
DeleteP.S. I copy/ pasted my re-sized black & white bats a number of times and Copic colored them at thid
ReplyDeletes point before fussy-cutting them out.