tutorial: get well card

I always need a few Get Well cards in my card collection, but I sometimes struggle to keep them appropriate. You know, cutesy stuff for get well cards just kind of isn't always fitting, especially when the illness is serious. So I came up with an any-illness get well card. Simple and appropriate.

Supplies: 

•  kraft cardstock
• patterned paper (Bo Bunny double dot)
• white paper
• stamps (for sentiment - Hero Arts)/ink
• scissors
• adhesive
• sewing machine
 

Since I don't have a raindrop punch, I made my own stencil. 

 I googled raindrop silhouette and this is one of the images that came up. I printed it on thick cardstock, cut out the raindrop shape, and instant stencil. 

This is the back of the "stencil." (I used the same google-print-cut process for the cloud.)

I cut out a bunch of raindrops (and clouds). 

I laid out the pieces and made small pencil marks where I wanted to put them. I used a small amount of adhesive to hold the raindrops in place so that they did not shift while I was sewing them. 

Sew down the raindrops. Make sure to backstitch so nothing comes unraveled. 

Glue on your clouds. 

I made these assembly line style. I figure since I already had a mess made I would go ahead and make a few.

Stamp your senitment and done. 

If I hadn't broken a needle, jammed my sewing machine, and had a few other technical difficulties, I would have been able to make these in 30 minutes to an hour. Let's just say it took me a little bit longer than that...

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