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A while back a friend of mine asked if I could give her some ideas on a birthday card for a 8 year old boy. She had once  mentioned that one has to have all these gadgets in order to make a card like the ones I make. So when I designed this card for her, I kept that comment in mind and used only papers, adhesive and things that most people have or are easy to find.  And here is the card that I made:

I started with a print out of number 8, using the font Calibri, bold and size 550. Adhered the number with re-positionable tape onto gray card stock and cut it out:

I also cut a small extra link and taped it to the back were the link was missing:

Next I added the white dotted line with a white gel pen, and made the road signs, as you will see in the video. I found the image of the car online (it is from Pixars’s Cars) and printed it out at 1″ width. Here is a picture of how I added the foam tapes to get a differential height:

For the video I made a card with number nine. As it turned out, my friend was mistaken about the boy’s age, and he is actually turning nine.  So here is the card you will see being made in the video, (if you look closely, you will see I clearly need a new ink cartridge! The car looks so faded :/

The process is really similar. The only difference is in how you cut the number. I think this design is versatile and can be applied to different numbers.

Here is the video:

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Edited May 26, 2013:

I am entering the first card for this year’s Gallery Idol contest.

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Materials:

• Paper: White, gray, blue and yellow card stock.
• Adhesive: Repositoonable tape runner, regular tape runner, Scotch foam tape (you can usually find these at any stationary store), Zig glue pen.
• Ink: uni-ball signo white gel pen
• Other: print out of toy car