Fairy Toadstool Card

Today I thought I'd tell you all about the Toadstool card, I made last week for my Guide Daughter 6th birthday. She's not really a little girl who's into pink and the last time I asked her she said her favourite colour was red, so I decided that a Red spotty fairy toadstool card was the way to go.

The inspiration for this card came from some card designs by Andrea Willis, that I saw in a craft magazine tutorial last year. The first thing I did was a very rough sketch with the first pen I grabbed as you can see it was a green biro,  to figure out the basic design for my card. When I say rough sketch I mean it as you can see above, I'm a bit embarrassed to put it on my blog, but I figured it helps show  my entire card making process.

I then cut out a square of water colour paper with my scalloped scissors and drew the design on free hand first in pencil then I went over the top with a fine black stablio pen.

Then it was time for a bit of crayon therapy, colouring in my card, I do love a bit of colouring. In fact I recently ordered a lovely secret garden colouring book for grown ups, but more on that another day. Then I tried out different backing papers, at first I thought I would go with this green backing paper

but then I found this lovely plum coloured paper, that I knew was just the thing to set off my card.

I cut a piece of it to size and then stuck it to a card blank with double sided tape, I then use glue dots to attach my toadstool topper.

And Ta-Dah my card was complete.

I really hope she likes it and that she has a lovely birthday.

Fairy Toadstool Card ingredients.

• Card Blank
• Water colour paper
• Pretty backing paper
• Scissors Scalloped
• Glue dots
• Double sided tape
•  Pencil
• Stablio pens
• Crayola felt pen (I'd love to be able to use something like a Pro marker but find them too toxic)

 Why not leave a comment and let me know what you are making at the moment ?

Happy Crafting

Clare xx