Happy Easter. Since it is a holiday I decided I am going to repost one of my very first craft projects. I have improved on my photography a lot since I started this blog about 7 months ago. I wanted to make this baby card again so I am adding new photos of the project. This is a fun card to make, and you do not need a cutting machine. You just download my hand drawn template and cut out. It is fun to make it in different patterned papers. Just click on the original link for more detailed instructions. 


Here are the original post for detailed directions: http://craftingrebellion.blogspot.com/2011/09/handmade-baby-bootie-card.html


Here are the basic instructions:


Download the template for the Baby Bootie and the Baby Bootie insoles.


Template #1 the Outer Bootie and strap

Template #2 The insole


Print out onto card stock. I cut my decorative 12" x 12" inch paper to 8.5" x 11"


I used black card stock for the insole and patterned scrapbook paper for the bootie and strap. 


Cut out the designs.


Attach a piece of card stock to your plain card using tape runner.


Attach the baby booties to the card using tape runner.




Attach the baby bootie insole using tape runner.


Attach the straps with tape runner on just the ends (so the strap pops up), or with a glue dot. 






Stick on an embellishment to the strap.

You only need a few supplies for this project:


1 pack of 3"x5" index cards
1 piece of flat stretch elastic (you can get a package of this at Hobby Lobby or Joann's or you can recycle using an elastic headband)
1 Binder Ring (I bought a multi box of colored ones at Staples for $2)
Scrapbook Paper 
Tape Runner or Double sided Tape
Cropadile or Hole Punch
Optional Dye ink to distress the edges of your covers (I use Cats eye Charcoal or Chestnut Roan)
Ribbon 
Charm (optional) to attach to the ring 
Embellishments


Open your pack of index cards and make a stack about 1/2" deep. You can also take your pack and separate into 2 stacks. Take 2 cards and set them aside to use for the front and back cover.
Cut 2 pieces of decorative paper 3"x5"
Apply to the lined sides of 2 index cards using tape runner or double sided tape.
Optional Distress around the edges of your front and back cover. This will remove any sign of white card in case you didn't line up your edge perfectly. Some Notebook Pads I distressed, some I did not.


Take the front cover and a small stack of cards and align them and punch a hole in the top left corner. Continue punching the entire stack this way by taking one of the punched cards putting it on top of another stack of cards and punch to do the entire stack. I use a cropadile hole punch tool as it punches through a pretty good sized chunk of cards, but any hole punch is fine.

Attach your Binder Ring to your stack of cards.
Measure a piece of flat elastic around the notebook slightly overlapping and cut. I use thin flat elastic that was from the sewing area at hobby Lobby. I also used an elastic headband cut in half

Attach Elastic to the Back Cover of the book (remove back cover from the binder if needed) by stapling the two overlapped pieces together centered about 1" from the side. I used a mini stapler but any stapler is fine. Trim any extra elastic and put the back cover back on the binder and slide your elastic band around the notebook. (Another option is to staple a ribbon and tie it in the front of the book).
Don't worry if you staple your elastic a little too loose or tight by accident, just add or remove some cards.

Your Purse Sized Notebook Pad is done and now you are ready to embellish! Have fun making it unique!


Tie pieces of ribbon to the binder ring
Attach a charm to the ring 
Embellish with chipboard letters or flowers.
Tie a ribbon to a paper clip and clip it in the book so ribbon comes out of the top of the book 


Some Gift ideas for your Purse sized Notebook Pads:
Put your notebook pad in a cellophane bag with a clever pen and you have a brilliant little gift! 
Hostess gifts
Bride or Mom to be and have the shower guests write wishes or have guests bring a 3"x5" recipe card to put in the book for a great little Recipe Book. 
Make one for a teacher and have students write a message on each card as a thank you 
Nice for Students and Coworkers

Todays card project inspiration comes from a little gift my Husband brought home today. A fun skull print pair of knee socks from Sock it to Me www.sockittomesocks.com He is running the Rock N' Roll Marathon in Denver this weekend and picked them up at the expo.


I was in the card making mood so I used my Fiskars "Ink" "Skin and Bones" clear stamp set. I stamped "you Rock" and "Happy Birthday Wild Child" on the inside of the cards. Here are the easy step by step instructions to recreate them:

You need :
Stick on gemstones and Bows

Card #1 (vertical) Cut a piece of lipstick card stock 1/2" smaller than your card. I chose the part of the lipstick pattern pattern paper that had black swirls on it. Distress the edges of the paper with charcoal cats eye ink and apply to the card with your tape runner. Apply two pieces of "bling on a roll" decorative tape near the top of the card. I also used this tape on the project Crazy Clips. Tie a ribbon around the dimensional padlock sticker and attach. Stamp the skull image onto white card stock with burgandy or black ink. Cut out and distress the edges with charcoal cats eye ink. Apply with pop dots to a piece of black card stock cut 1/2" bigger and attach to the card with tape runner.

Card #2 (Horizontal) Cut a piece of damask paper from Femme Fatale paper pad 1/2" smaller than your card and apply with tape runner. Cut a piece of black card stock about 3" wide. Punch the edge with Martha Stewart's "Drippy Goo" edge punch. I just bought this punch and love it! It is the first side punch I have bought. Apply the black punched card stock to the left side of the card with tape runner. Apply two pieces of "bling on a roll" tape over the black card stock. I used pink and black/silver tape. Apply 3 rows of stick on gems. Stamp the skull image with black ink on white card stock. Cut out and distress the edges with charcoal cats eye ink. Cut a piece of black card stock 1/2" bigger and apply the skull with tape runner. Attach the mini card to the background with pop dots. Use a glue dot to attach a little black bow.

Double sided permanent tape
Paper scraps or
Ribbon or 
Decorative adhesive Tape-I use Recollections "glitter tape" and"bling on a role" tape
E6000 Glue or Hot Glue
Embellishments: Dimensional stickers, buttons, paper flowers, charms etc.


PS If you to sew I found a great demonstration making the clips with fabric (use up your fabric scraps) with a fabric poof embellishment at http://www.creaturecomfortsblog.com/home/2010/6/2/diy-fancy-clothespins.html  Surprisingly they also use double sided tape for attaching the fabric. Easy!

This Baby bootie shoe card is so much fun to make because of the endless paper and embellishment options you can use to create your booties. Boy, girl, sweet, sassy, punk, try making one of each to keep on hand for a new baby, shower, or 1st birthday card. Attach one of our Rockin' baby sayings to the card, stamp, or print your own saying. Any way you make it, it will sure to be a card that is remembered.
Its easy to make several booties at once and create several cards quickly. Lets get started.


First click on the following links to download the template you will use to print and cut your booties.  When you click on the links they take you to www.mediafire a document storage site. Make sure you click the Mediafire click here to download file button. If you get a flashing yellow "download now" button to the far left of the mediafire download button in ad space, don't click on it. It will say "survey" first which is really an ad. The Mediafire download button is on the right of the page, and it is safe and secure to download any documents.

Template #1 the Outer Bootie and strap

Template #2 The insole

Template # 3 Rockin' Baby sayings (optional)

Decide on a paper you would like for the bootie. In the examples I use a leopard print and a damask print. Smaller prints tend to work better. If you are using scrapbook 12x12 paper cut it to 8 1/2 x 11 on your paper cutter. One great pack of paper to try for the card is Michael's 8.5 x 11 wild pattern paper and at only $3.00 a pack on sale it is great for other card making crafts. It has different colored leopard and zebra prints. (I used this paper for the Handmade Hair Pins card backs). The damask and polka dot paper is also from Michaels. Once you have your main paper chosen pick a CONTRASTING paper that will act as the insole and:



Print Template #2-Print on the REVERSE side of your CONTRASTING paper

Cut out your booties and straps. Don't worry if you're not exact, just try to cut along the line. The insole is slightly trickier to cut, use smaller scissors if you have them, but again don't worry if it's not perfect. In the following picture the leopard paper was on the other side of this two sided paper.




Use a good tape runner type scrapbooking glue (I use Tombo MONO adhesive) to attach the insoles to the bootie. 

If you would like a shadow around your booties use your tape runner and glue the booties to black paper and cut around the booties approximately 1/4". (You do not need to do this step, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The step generally makes the booties pop a little more off the card but again you don't have to do it.



Now you have a pair of booties with an insole and a shadow. Cut a piece of paper for the background of your card. I find simple background patterns work well with wild pattern booties, and simple booties need a wild background paper. I used premade 6 1/2 x 5 inch card from Michael's. They come in a pack of 25 with envelopes. You can certainly cut and score your own. I like easy so I usually buy the packs when they offer them 1/2 off.

Now cut  your background paper 6" x 4 1/2 "

Attach the background paper to the card with your tape runner

Attach the booties to the card with your tape runner.
If you are going to use a brad as the bootie strap embellishment you will need to attach the strap (shown next) push the brad through THEN attach the whole things to the card with a tape runner so you do not have a brad poking through the card. But if you plan on using embellishments like bows, button, stick on gems etc. follow the next steps.

Attach your straps buy using a tiny glue dot on each side of the strap or use glue runner. Make sure to just put it on the sides. The straps will pop up if you do. If you want them to lie flat then tape runner the whole strap and attach.

Now the FUN part...


Embellish the side strap with bows, gems, buttons, paper flower etc. I had a pack of tiny press on bows I found in the scrapbooking area at JOAnnes that I used for the bows on the booties. Cut and tie your own ribbon though and attach with a glue dot just as easily. Make sure to use a glue dot instead of flimsy stick on glue that comes on many scrapbook embellishments.

You can also
print out our Rockin Baby sayings to use on the card
Print the sayings out on any plain paper (I have used white, pastel pink, blue, etc) and layout the saying and the booties onto the card before you glue everything down.