We stocked up on white frames from Ikea before baby S was born, anticipating that we would want to frame cards and other little mementos from his first few weeks. Now baby S has a lot of special artwork in his nursery given to him by friends, and this little elephant artwork that I made.
I made his elephant punch art when I was punching out dozens of little elephants to make thank you note cards during the last days of my pregnancy and had a baggie full of leftover navy pachyderms; it’s a quick and easy project that can be personalized to any nursery!
Materials
- Animal shape punch – I used Martha Stewart’s elephant punch from AC Moore where they sell a gazillion different punches. The sand dollar would be adorable in a beachy theme nursery or the snowflake for a snowbunny nursery
- Heavy card stock in color of your choice
- White card stock
- Glue dots
- 10×10 Shadowbox frame – we used an Ikea Ribba frame
Cut the white card stock so it’s the size of your frame. If you’re using a mat then mark very lightly where the edges of the mat will fall.
Punch out 20 elephants from the colored card stock and fold their ears for a little dimension.
Arrange the elephant shapes on the white card stock. When you have a pattern that you like, attach each one with a glue dot.
Stick your artwork in the shadowbox frame and you’re done!
To personalize the artwork, you could leave one elephant off and use the empty space to write your baby’s name or birth date. Or put in one contrasting color elephant. If baby S were a girl I had planned to replace one blue elephant with a pink one.
Did you make any of the artwork in your baby’s nursery?
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
So cute! I love how the ears fold up!
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
Love this!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Cute!
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
love this! maybe i can make one with bees!
GOLD / kiwi / 613 posts
That is very cute! The folded up ears are what really makes it pop!
clementine / 878 posts
Super cute! I’ve saved all the cards I received with shower gifts and am trying to figure out a cute craft project for those.
honeydew / 7917 posts
I love it! It goes so well with your nursery theme. Love the textured paper and ears.
@Mrs. Bee: Bee Punch!
http://www.amazon.com/Martha-Stewart-Crafts-Double-Bumble/dp/B002YIOA8E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337114491&sr=8-1
I bought it from Michaels a few months ago and was sad to see that it didn’t cleanly punch through the paper. Maybe mine was defective?
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Love this!!
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
So cute! We have no art in baby’s nursery yet.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
Very cute! And I just happen to have lots of flower punches from making my LO’s birthday invites.
grapefruit / 4770 posts
Bookmarking this for future nursery down the road! Thanks!!
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
@Mrs. Bee: Yes! I have a bee punch from Paper Source that would be perfect!
clementine / 861 posts
This is so cute!! Thank you for sharing!