Thursday, September 15, 2011

"Wheels on the Bus" by Tammy Maddux

Wheels on the bus
Back to school card

Supplies needed:  Olive card blank from Paper Accents, "Walk in the park" paper from Karen Foster Design, White, brown, and yellow 8.5x11 card stock, Yellow vellum, Black pen, "Thought bubble" stamp from Great Impressions (F489), Graphite black ink pad from Brilliance, paper trimmer, adhesive of choice, foam glue square or glue dot, two small silver brads, .5"circle punch, very small hole punch, and scissors.

Instructions:  Cut pattern paper starting from the bottom to 5 3/8". Make sure that you have the trees on the strip. cut the area with the trees to measure 4 1/8"x 5 3/8".  Then cut the other end of strip to measure the same as tree cut.  Fold card blank and adhere trees to front and the other peice to inside.  You should have an olive border around the paper.
On white card stock and the yellow vellum, stamp the thought bubble and set aside to dry.  Punch out two .5" circles from the brown card stock then punch small hole in center of each circle.  Place a brad in each circle. Cut a small peice of yellow cardstock to 1 3/4"x 3/4".  Then free hand the shape of a two wheeled bus. Adhere brown circles to cut out for the wheels.  Use pen to draw the details on the bus.
 Then using foam square or dot, adhere bus to inside. placeing it to look like it is on a road or hill.  Cut out both thought bubbles as close as possible to edges.  On the white bubble, write in song "the wheel on the bus go round and round".  Adhere bubbles togather sandwiching the words in the middle.  Then adhere to front of card so that it looks like it is comming from behind a tree.  On white card stock, write "have a fun day at school".  Adhere vellum over words and cut out a round. Place this inside, under the bus.
Thank you for creating with Tammy Maddux.

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