Ka-chow! This card is for my friend's son's birthday tommorow. He LOVES Cars the movie, and I really wanted to make a Lightening McQueen card, but didn't have any stickers or anything. SO, I had to see if I could do it all by hand! Going to do my best to explain the details!
The Label is traced from the DVD box we have, cut out. Background is lots of masking and spongeing.
Now for Mr. McQueen:
-Body and Head are two pieces. Cut out with the paper trimmer, cut with a slight angle. Used the corner rounders in the corners.
-Eyes: White piece layered over the upper head piece. For the eye lids, cut a piece in red to fit at the top of the white perfectly. Then, used and oval punch on the right side first, then unevenly at the left. Accented along the lids with a Real Red Marker. Eye Balls are 3/8" (Itty Bitty Punches) circle, and a 1/4" circle (All I have is my Cropadile, but the larger hole works! just flatten the circle). A dab of white gel in the corners of the black for life.
-Mouth-Used the Wide Oval punch in Real Red to cut an oval. Then used a bigger oval, in my case Coluzzle, the biggest one I could get, to create a more subtle upper curve. I did the same for the white layer in the center. Used a strip of black cut in a similar fashion for the gap, though it would have been easier to use a marker. More accenting of the mouth with real Red around the lip, black around the white to create dimension, and a bit of Spongeing to create shadow (Going Gray, Sahara Sand will probably be ok too). using a strip of CS I had punched a hole (oval) out of, I reverse masked next to the mouth to create the dimensions of the upturned mouth shadowing.
-Head Lights: done by hand, the one thing I just had to do. Started with two identical triangles, eyeballing the picture I had, rounding corners, cutting off ends to the right size. outlined in black, then Daffodil/Pumpkin on the one end, a silver pen on the other.
-Wheels: Modern Label punch, cut in half.
SO excited to share this with my friend! I hope you all enjoyed it!
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010 GMT Views: 5034
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Accessories: Silver Brads, Silver EP, Punches; Modern Label, Wide Oval, Itty Bitty Punches, 1/4" Circle, Corner Rounder, Word Window, Large Oval: Coluzzle, White Gel Pen