Card for Amy's Baby Shower

Amy is going to have a baby in May. The ladies at work are planning a shower for her. I volunteered to make the invitations. Such fun!

Wallpaper Cards

These cards were made using outdated wallpaper sample books. I will give them to the ladies at the wallpaper store who gave the sample books to me.

Card for Holly

The inside of card has a limerick:

There was a young lady named Holly

Who liked to be merry and jolly.

She danced a little jig

With a silly little pig

And made us all giggle.....by golly

Shirt Card

Here are directions for a card in the shape of a shirt. it opens to include a message on the inside.

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In order to fit the final shirt into a quarter page envelope, choose a piece of paper 10 inches long by 7 1/2 inches wide (or less). Fold in half lengthwise then fold both sides to middle.

3.

Open paper and fold bottom two corners to the side folds.

4.

Fold the sides into center as shown.

5.

It will now look like this.

6.

At dashed fold line, fold up and crease well.

Then unfold it.

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The next step is too hard to diagram and a little tricky to do. Take the point by A and fold back to side fold B. Then do same on other side.

8.

Push outwards where shown.

9.

Bend entire lower portion up. The two pointy edges will be sleeves.

10.

Fold about a half inch on to to the other side.

11.

Fold top outside corners to the center. Fairly close to top edge. These will form collar.