For us, we celebrated Canada Day (July 1st) with outdoor festivities, fireworks and of course outdoor food.
I love outdoor parties and I enjoyed the last watermelon craft (treat holder) in the previous post soooo much....that I had to make more. Lots more...
Card number one, in Melon Mambo and Garden Green....
The seeds are made from a scallop square punch, each scallop I cut at an angle like a teardrop and removed from the square. You can also use a scallop circle (or any scalloped shape) to make tear drop shapes for seeds, eyes etc.
Next...CHOMP...nom nom....a watermelon card (or invitation) with a wee bite taken out (thanks to my circle punches)
A closer look at this one and you can see it is done with Riding Hood Red (a more masculine watermelon?) and the seeds are arranged in a row across the melon.
The seeds are highlighted with white gel pen.
The watermelon rinds are sponged with green ink to give it a more true to life effect.
Decorate your drinks! Punch a little watermelon with your circle punches and sassy up those straws! Bendy straws would have been better...but I have none...so we improvise.
Punch up those paper plates with some watermelon funfetti! Okay so they are really only half circles of watermelon coloured circle punches...but they work very well! Cute!
Make a napkin ring/name card with your small circle punches and a ring of matching cardstock. Leave out the seeds and you have room to write a name!
I hope you've enjoyed our little watermelon punch party!
xo.
D.
PS. How did I get those round bottom cards to stand straight? On the back of the card, the bottom edge is trimmed flat so that it doesn't tip and roll. Have fun!
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