A card commission from a friend who wanted a compendium card for a special mates birthday. The card request was - I would like a card with Leeds FC on, Elvis and Green Bay Packers American footballers. My initial thought was you want all that on one card - really ! After some thought I realised that it may be possible and may not look as horrible as originally thought.
Having a Cricut machine and the Paperdolls and Everyday paper dolls cartridges that are my most used cartridges, I realised there was an American footballer on there that I thought I would never use.
Firstly I got an image of the kit that the Green Bay Packers wear to work from and using my Cricut Gypsy device I selected the basic outfit items for the footballer and then added detail for both the helmet and the shirt. I wanted my particular character to wear a face guard so cut this out from black card also. The detailed sections were all glued onto the shirt and helmet and the main character was made up , the guard protector was slightly curved over a pencil to add definition. The face was stamped using Sizzix doll faces and the eyes were stamped again onto white card and cut and glued into place. A ball was cut twice and layered up. I embossed a square of white American craft card using Swiss dots embossing folder and matted this onto yellow card measuring just slightly smaller than a 4" x 4" square.
The next section to create was the Leeds FC section. Again using my Cricut Gyspy machine and my soccer cartridge, I selected the shirt section and hid the cut detail, hence leaving me with blank shirt template. I created a copy of the shirt and enlarged it slightly to create a background section.
Using Mickey's Font cartridge I added the name Pete and shirt number 50 on the smaller image. I created a similar template using the shorts from the same cartridge. The images were cut out from both blue and white card and the blue letters were fixed in to the white sections. Two boots where cut from the cartridge in white card for the background section and black for the detailed layer.
I embossed a square of white American craft card using my football embossing folder and matted this onto black card measuring just slightly smaller than a 4" x 4" square.
I cut a number of footballs, using my Quickutz football die, these were fixed to the embossed section, surrounding the main shirt, shorts and boot toppers.
The Elvis section came next, again using my Cricut Doll cartridge I cut a pair of boots out in blue and black and layered the blue section on top of the black. I cut musical notes out from my Quarter Note cartridge. The name Elvis was cut from blue card using Mickey Font cartridge with a black shadow, the letters were attached using double sided tape.
I embossed a square of white American craft card using my musical script embossing folder and matted this onto blue card measuring just slightly smaller than a 4" x 4" square.
Using a small micro CD , I fixed this to the embossed square and the remaining cut items were fixed with a combination of double sided tape and glue.
The last square to create was the message square, using a blank piece of white card which had the letters cut out from it using the Cricut Gypsy device, again using Mickey Font cartridge. The letters were cut again from green card stock. Prior to inserting the green letters the white card section was embossed using the Happy birthday embossing folder, the green letters were then inserted in the gaps and fixed using double side tape. This embossed section was matted onto green card stock.
Using an 8" x 8"card, the four sections created were attached using strong double sided tape, due to the weight of the CD section this was attached to the lower section of the card.
An additional message was printed and fixed to the centre of the card to finish. Lets hope Pete has a great birthday, I don't think he will receive another card like this one that's for sure.
