Caardvarks & Hero Arts--dimensional Onesie Baby card

Can you believe this is my first Onesie card? About time already, hey? ;o) This shaped Onesie card is made from Hero Arts digital image set & can be used on the front of a card, as it is above, or it can stand nicely on its own, if you prefer:

1... Digital stuff: KIT from Hero Arts (+a free digi for the tag)
2...create a dimensional onesie shaped card from a digital image
3...Cheap tricks: paper scoring waffle texture & distressing
4...make the sparkly embossed "Priceless!" tag
5...more tutorials (a link to the mini tut. for the scallop)

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from Hero Arts/ Two Peas

This was for a digi challenge atsponsored by

...and it uses this Hero Arts digital set:

Special Delivery

Freebie

"Priceless!" Tags (by me)

(These are mirrored for double-sided tags)

Downloads here:

1 pair of mirrored Large Priceless Tags PNG
1 pair of mirrored Large Priceless Tags PDF


2 sizes of Priceless Tags PNG
2 sizes of Priceless Tags PDF
Teensy "Priceless" Tags PNG

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...create the dimensional onesie
(a shaped card from a digital image)

A little fiddling in Photoshop turned the onesie image
from Hero Arts Special Delivery digital set into a dimensional card:

I used Photoshop to create these pieces:

1) A backside... with just the normal Onesie shape from the Hero Arts set, that I altered by cutting the "bottom" snap piece off (digitally in Photoshop) then pasted it back in--but so that it sticks off the shape instead & can fold up.

For this backside, I wanted some of the image details, but not all, so I just quickly erased a little of them in Photoshop. Ya gotta love the flexibility of digital!

2) A front with that bottom piece cut off
(no need to alter that digitally at all; just cut it off with scissors.)

and leave tabs at the top so it can be added to the back card.

3) A second front layer traced & extended, beneath the front to create a space for the snap area to fit. (It's stitched in white on this version to add a little je ne sais quoi. ;o)

This closure means it can stand on its own...

(as a fun little baby shower invite, congrats, or thank you)

...but to add it to a large card instead I did this schtuff:

A) Made a 5.5" square card with a scallop bottom
& B) Added a stitched mat (on foam tape)

And there ya have it:

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(paper scoring waffle texture
& distressing)

The white on white is a favourite colour(less) scheme,
but I wanted it to have a bit of texture...

(...this sort of distressed waffle texture, like fabric.)

To get the waffle-ness, I just used a paper piercer to score lines all across the image adding all diagonal lines & then cross hatched lines perpendicular to those. Takes a bit of time, but it's a free way to get unique textured paper...(in hindsight this would work better before stitching everything, but it was A-ok as a random afterthought.) ;o)

To make the onesie even more fabric-like,
it's been distressed along all the edges...

(with the edge of a pair of scissors) more free, yay! ;o)

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...make the tag:

A quick double-sided tag.... It's embossed from the
ink jet printer & the PT Incandescent paper has a special sparkle to it...

Step 1) Print & emboss both sides of the priceless tag (at 80%) I embossed using Paper Temptress Incandescent cardstock. (It's on sale for 40% off right now, by the by.)

It gives you really cool embossing (quickly):

(me likey embossing custom computer-printed sentiments.)

Step 2) Reinforce the tags: Cut the tags out & glue them onto cardstock & cut them out again.



Step 3) Sew the tag on: Double thread a needle & knot the end. Pierce a hole where you want the tag & put the needle through. (I used silver thread, for a little bling.)



Step 4) Add the first half of the double-sided tag: Trim the threads & glue on the back side of the tag.



Step 5) Sandwich the other side on to finish it.

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(for the scallop on this card)

There's a mini tutorial on how to make the sturdy scallop
(with 1 and 1/4 inch circle punches) here:

• Onesie image from Hero Arts Special Delivery digital set
• Neenah White cardstock (for the Onesie)
  
• Watercolour paper (for the main card & mat)
  
• Paper Temptress Incandescent cardstock (tag)
  
• Clear embossing powder & heat gun
• Silver glittered patterned paper (from Dollar Store)
  
• Tombow Monomulti & Scor-tape
• Dimensional foam tape
• Paper piercer, needle, & silver and white thread
  
• White knit ribbon (i got it at Dress Sew in Vancouver.)
  
• Small silver snaps & 1/8" hand-held hole punch

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here's hoping your day is craftiliscious!