F holes

Today's BEDM brief is to do with the Mexican celebration of  Cinco de Mayo.  Zoe at Splodz Blogz has done an excellent post on this, so please head over there to find out more as I had no idea what it was and I've left it a bit late to find out about it!

So instead, I am going to focus on celebration of a different kind. CBC's birthday!  He celebrated this a couple of weeks ago (maybe a week ago?).  Usually, I have some clear defined idea of what card I am going to make for him but this year, I was definitely scraping the barrel for an idea.  Finally, I decided to make him a card linked to his 'cello. CBC is a very good Cellist.

Image borrowed from
http://musicpartnership.com.au/music-instruments/cello / 

If you're wondering about the F holes reference- please refer to the diagram above for the names of all the different parts of a cello (and violin/viola).  The f holes are so called, because they resemble a fancy 'f'.   I had an idea in my head to make CBC a really simple card using apertures cut in the shape of f holes as you can see above.

What I didn't remember, it being so long since I used one, was how utterly egregious I am at cutting using a craft knife OR a Stanley knife.  Literally, it was a disaster. And when I folded my gate-fold card, I accidentally folded it in half too reducing the stability of the whole card.

Finally, I resorted to a pair of scissors to finish off the f holes and filed the (very) rough edges with a nail file.  I printed f hole shapes onto the card in the first place.  Oh and as you can see, I should have printed them a bit nearer to the middle edges.

It looked MOST sad and pathetic, so I added gold outline stickers to the edges of the card to try and give it a little more sophistication and used a gold Sharpie to try and outline the f hole edges.  

The whole thing was decidedly shoddy, which I warned CBC about, and he laughed lots when he saw it.  It looks better here with a glossy filter and sparkles than it does in real life but am including it here in case someone who CAN cut, sees it as an excellent idea they can use for their own card for a string player and adapt it accordingly! After all, the idea was quite original, it was just the execution of it that was rather dreadful!

Linking to Creative Mondays with Claire Justine in hope that someone sees its potential

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