Dress up your next baby shower gift with one or both of these sweet, 4×4 baby boy or girl cards.
4×4 Baby Boy Card Supply List:
Cherry Wood Tape
White Birch Wood Tape
Fiscars Sweet Pea Clear Stamp
Clear Blocks
Chocolate Chip Ink Pad
Yellow Bakers Twine
Blue Card Stock
1/16-inch hand punch
4×4 Baby Girl Card Supply List:
Cherry Wood Sheet
Pink Card Stock
Fiscars Sweet Pea Clear Stamp
Clear Blocks
Chocolate Chip Ink Pad
1/16-inch hand punch
Yellow Bakers Twine
Dimensionals
4×4 Baby Boy Card Instructions:
1. Place stamp on edge of stamp pad applying ink to only the flag part of the image.
2. Trim approximately 3-inches of Cherry Wood Tape and stamp image in center of piece.
3. Trim flag image out of Cherry Wood Tape leaving a very small border.
4. Trace Cherry Wood flag image on piece of patterned paper and trim out. Repeat steps 1-3 with a piece of White Birch Wood Tape.
5. Trim pattern paper and White Birch Wood Tape in half.
6. Using 1/16-inch hand punch place a hole in the tip of the Cherry Wood flag image.
7. Using Yellow bakers twine, thread through hole in point of flag, tie a small knot in end to keep it from slipping through.
8. Trim a piece of card stock to 4×8-inches. Score at 4-inches and fold card in half.
9. Stamp plane and flag image approximately 1-1/2-inches from the top of the card, centering the image horizontally.
10. Using an awl or other paper piercing tool, place a hole in the card where the string attaches to the plane in the image.
11. Thread the piece of yellow bakers twine that is connected to the flag image through the hole in the card.
12. Before tying a knot on the back of the card, be sure to leave a little slack in the twine so that it follows the curve of the artwork.
13. On the inside of the card, tie a small knot in the twine to secure it.
14. Peel Backing from Cherry Wood Tape flag and attached pattern paper and White Birch Tape pennants to back, slightly offsetting them to create layered look.
15. Attach layered Cherry Wood Tape flag to card front directly over the top of stamped image.
16. Stamp “baby boy” image approximately 1-inch from the bottom right edge of the card.
4×4 Baby Girl Card Instructions:
4×4 Baby Girl Card Instructions:
1. Using Chocolate ink, stamp three images on Cherry Wood Sheet.
2. Trim all three images out, leaving a slight border around each.
3. Take Pink Card Stock and cut to 4×8-inches. Score at 4-inches and fold card in half.
4. Using an awl or other paper piercing tool, place two holes in card front. Each hole approximately 1/4-inch in from right and left edge of card and approximately 1/2-inch from folded top of card.
5. Thread yellow twine through left side card hole from the back of the card. Finish threading twine across front of card into right side hole.
6. Tie both ends around card edge and into a small knot. Leave a bit of slack in the thread to create a slight draping look.
7. Using dimensionals, attach Cherry wood stamped pieces along the bakers twine, creating a clothes line look.
8. Stamp “baby girl” in bottom right corner approximately 1/2-inch from bottom right edges.
