Need a craft that will delight your friends on even a bad hair day? Try a humorous greeting card from Jane Beard and the Museum of Modern Rubber.
Materials:
three 8-1/2" x 11" card stock sheets
stamp pad
craft knife
ruler
glue stick
Musuem of Modern Art rubber stamps
-Compact
-Lipstick
-Bobby Pin
-Kiss & Make-up
small brass brad
Steps:
- Cut your card three times the height of the window opening (the mirror on the compact stamp).
- Find the center of the card by drawing lines with a light pencil. Stamp mirror (or opening border of your choice) so the bottom is slightly above midpoint on front of card. Cut out the opening of the mirror and discard. Stamp and color rest of stamp as desired.
- Cut the back part of the cardabout 1/2" taller and wider than the front. This will create the tabs you will need to hold the wheel in the card. Score and fold in tabs. Position front card on top of the back card and glue the left side tab in place, so card opens like a book.
- Make wheel 1/2" smaller than front card, place in back and mark center point. Cut a small vertical slot and set the wheel in place. Attach with small brad.
- Close the card with wheel still in place and trace the opening of the mirror onto the wheel. Do this in several places as this will help you to accurately position your other stamp figures on the wheel. Remove wheel and stamp images (kiss & make-up, lipstick, etc.) into the outlined areas on the wheel. Note: Photos could be inserted rather than stamping.
- Replace wheel and fasten brad, pushing through from the back. Glue remaining tabs to close the card.
Jane's Tips:
- To make the bobby pin images realistic: Cut a sticky note the shape of the compact, place it over the top of the stamped image of the compact, and stamp the bobby pins on the card overlapping the sticky note. Remove the note so that the bobby pins look as if they are going behind the compact.
- X-Acto makes a circle cutter that looks like a compass but features a cutting blade on one edge. This product makes circular cutouts easy, but an ordinary compass and craft knife will do the same.
- Mirror paper (reflective mylar) can be added for another "image" to appear in the compact.
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