Flag Card

Flag Card

One of our church members recently made some flag cards for our kid’s group to complete for our mission focus for July – - – Pray 4 R Troops.  Her cards were all nicely cut with a Cricut machine BUT as I don’t have one and I can’t cut a straight line mine are a little less polished.

The children each wrote a special message and the pre-school children drew pictures.

We plan to send the cards along with Goodwill Boxes to a group of local soldiers that will be leaving for Afghanistan soon.   This gives us a little time to collect our goodies to send and for the boxes to arrive shortly after they do.  We plan on sending items the troops may have a hard time getting overseas.

Materials:

• Flag Paper
• Blue Cardstock
• Red Cardstock
• White “USA” Cardstock Letters
• Mini Brads
• Jingle Bells
• Red, White & Blue Baker’s Twine
• White Star & Heart Button
• White or Parchment Cardstock

Also Needed

• Silver Metallic Permanent Pen
• Glue Stick
• Adhesive Foam Squares

Mini Tutorial

1. Tear a sheet of blue cardstock in half.  Tear around the edges so that it will fit on a 5×7 card or half sheet of cardstock.
2. Tear the flag paper to fit in the blue cardstock.
3. Tear a 2”x2” square of blue cardstock.  Dab on “stars” with the silver metallic marker.
4. Punch holes with a pinpoint hole-punch in each corner of the blue square.
5. Lay the blue square in the left top corner of the flag paper and then punch holes in the flag paper to line up with the other holes.  I had to mark the lower right with a pin and then punched a hole with a pen.
6. Repeat with the blue cardstock.
7. Join everything with mini brads.
8. I added a red cardstock heart outline (punch a heart shape and then tear around it) to the bottom left of the flag paper with a mini brads stuck through a small heart button.
9. Glue the flag paper down to the blue cardstock.
10. Then glue everything to the front of the card.
11. Tear a piece of red cardstock copying the shape on the card.  Measure to make sure the cardstock letters fit the piece and glue the letters down.
12. Wrap the Baker’s Twine around the red cardstock piece and tie off leaving about 2” ends.
13. Select a small star button that will not obscure the twine.  Thread the ends through the star button and double knot in the middle.  Tie small jingle bells on the ends.
14. Use foam squares to secure the red cardstock to the front of the card so it is a little elevated.

 

Thank you for reading my post. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. If you have any questions or something is not clear, please let me know so that I can improve the tutorial.

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Thanks again.

buggalcrafts a.k.a. melba

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