My First Step Card

I've been itching for ages to make a step card, but didn't really like the usual shape one, because the images that I have never look quite right when I've tried a mock up one.

Having won a blog challenge Top 3 at Sew Many Cards Challenge this week, I was able to choose 3 of their digi Stamps. I spent ages on their website trying to decide which images to have, and in the end I saw this bear with balloons and knew it would make a perfect image for my friends little boys who is 1 in November.

So I trawled You Tube last night and found the perfect step card for me to try, made out of one piece of A4 card. I manged to make it right the first time of trying, and found the cuts and folds very easy to do.

I have used some plain blue card to back the papers and image, and the paper came from the huge stack I got from WH Smith a while ago, and I thought went perfectly with the blue card I was using.

I coloured the image in promarkers, and added glossy accents to the balloon, the light pink of the paws and the bears nose. The letters, stars and No. 1 were all cut on the craft robo.

I love the unusual shape of this card, and although putting it together was quite time consuming, I will definitely be making more for both boys and girls for special birthdays.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative Cottage Challenge - Boy's Challenge
Stamps R Us Challenge - Child's Birthday
Secret Crafters Challenge - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - Birthdays