The first time I saw one of these face mask cards online I thought it was so clever and I have been anxious to make one since then so here are my Facemask Cards with Peaceful Poppies Paper. Not all face masks have to be those medical blue ones! Some are getting quite creative! A famous furniture store owner here in Houston is wearing a face mask with a face printed on it when he does his commercials on TV!
These face mask cards are relatively easy to make. You just take a small scrap of paper, preferably designer series paper because it will fold easier than cardstock, score and fold, then tape. If you want, you can then pop up the mask from the underside by pushing out those pleats you folded, just like a real mask. I don’t think this would be workable for mailing but it is fun that you can make the mask look so realistic.
To make the mask, use a piece of designer paper 2 3/4″ x 2 1/8″. Then putting the short end at the top of your Paper Trimmer or Simply Scored scoring tool, score at 1/2″, 5/8″, 1″, 1 1/8″, 1 1/2″ and 1 5/8″. Normally I score most things with my Paper Trimmer because it’s right there, but I think for this little bitty piece of paper it is easier and better to use the scoring board. You want the score lines to go horizontally across the paper, just like a real mask would look.
I used some scraps of Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper to make the masks. Why not use some pretty paper?! After scoring the little scrap of designer paper, fold and crease back and forth just like pleats on a real mask. It’s a little tricky to get those narrow folds but just make the paper do what you want! It helps to use the Bone Folder to really give those folds good creases. If you don’t have a Bone Folder, use a spoon or acrylic block or whatever you have.
After you have the paper folded, the sides need to be taped down to hold them in place. Make sure you have everything as straight and lined up and folded down as possible. It might end up slightly off so don’t worry about that. It might not be perfect, just like the masks I sewed, but it doesn’t matter! Try to get it as good as you can.
Cut a strip of Whisper White cardstock 11″ x 1/4″. Apply Tear & Tape along this piece of 1/4″ cardstock all the way down. The width of the tape fits perfectly if you apply it straight. Then pull back just a portion of the adhesive tape so you can adhere the thin strip of cardstock to each side of the mask on the back then cut off the excess. After you tape the sides of the back of the mask do the same on the front on each side. This strip of Whisper White looks like the white borders you often see on masks, so it works great and the Tear & Tape holds it well.
To put a very thin strip of white cardstock on the top and bottom of the front of the mask, lay the strip of Whisper White Cardstock on your table, adhesive side up. Adhere the top of the mask to just half that width (1/8″) of the white cardstock, then cut off the excess. Now you have the other side of that adhesive piece, 1/8″ wide, to adhere to the bottom edge of the mask.
If you want to pop up the mask to make it 3D, push out from the back side to push the pleats open. Then take another piece of the Whisper White strip with Tear & Tape adhesive and adhere it to the inside of the mask down the center to hold the pleats open.
I used 2 3/4″ pieces of the Whisper White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon for the ear loops of the mask. Just adhere with Mini Glue Dots. You could use whatever other ribbon you have that would work.
That’s it for making the little mask! For making each card, I just used Whisper White Cardstock for the card base and adhered a narrow strip of the Peaceful Poppies DSP along the side. The mask is adhered with Mini Glue Dots in each corner of the mask. The greeting is layered on a piece of Poppy Parade Cardstock. The measurements depend on the size of the greeting that you cut out.
The greeting comes from the Share Sunshine PDF download that you can get with a $12 donation to organizations that are helping during the pandemic. The full $12 goes to the donation, none is kept by Stampin’ Up!. For your donation, you get 15 pages of light-hearted sayings about the pandemic and quarantine, things we all talk about every day in this situation. You can print out all the pages or just the ones you choose and then cut, die-cut, or punch out the sentiments you want to use and use them on cards. The last day this Share Sunshine download will be available is June 2nd. Get it HERE.
If you want to watch some videos with Sara Douglass on Facebook explaining how she planned out cards to make with the sayings and designer paper and see her family’s craft party that they did virtually along with the Stampin’ Up! employees for their Day of Service, just watch HERE or HERE. I made some cards as I watched and made more the rest of the afternoon. Then my daughter saw them and asked me to make cards for her so I made more! And then I made the mask cards because I liked the saying that went with the face mask!
I hope you will try one of these Facemask Cards and send it to someone who might feel a bit of “sunshine” from receiving a card from you!