Well, I expounded a little on my shirt card that was part of my “For the Guys in Your Life” card class earlier this week. Check out my cute shirt chocolate holder!
First of all, go to Jill’s blog for the chocolate holder original instructions. She said to cut the paper at 7.5 x 8.5 inches. I found that cutting it at 8″ instead of 7.5 actually covered and enclosed the whole bar — it just worked better for me. Then, I used the same instructions as for the shirt card, but adapted the measurements. You can get Jackie Topa’s tutorial for the shirt card here. I then cut my shirt at 2.5″ rather than the 3.5″ that was used for the width of the card. Once again, I scored down 1/2″ to make the collar, punched the hole in the center, and folded in the corners to form the collar. I added some pants on the bottom (2.5″ x 8″ cardstock) because it was way too much shirt! A 1/4 inch “belt”, with a 1/2 x 1/2″ square for the buckle finishes the ensemble. What do you think? Tucked safely inside is a large Hershey’s chocolate bar (part of the 6-pack) — yum!
Here are two closeup photos:
I ended up having to take a piece of white cardstock and fold it in half so there was a button-down look, instead of the tie. I stuck a “stopwatch” around his neck — do you recognize it? It’s a stretch, but I used one of the small “watch” images from the Sense of Time stamp set (retiring the end of the month — might want to hurry for this one!), and then pieced together the minute and second hands from the larger image to make the “chain”. I wanted him in shorts, but you can’t really tell shorts from pants, … so just imagine, okay?! LOL!
Thanks for stopping by! Let me know if I didn’t answer your questions!
Jeannie
So cute – I love it!