How to make the Happy Oven Set Card
Materials you'll need to make the card shown here:
- AGW Happy Oven set
- AGW What's Cookin' set
- Acrylic block
- AGW Paper Pack with Doodlebug paper
- The Clever Cutts Small Inset Box Template
- Scoring tool, .5mm pencil and craft cutting knife (all available as part of the Clever Cutts Starter Kit)
- Straight edge
- 1/8" or 1/16" foam tape
- Glue
- Paper punches of various sizes (optional)
Items can be purchased individually by clicking the links above, or see all the supplies on one page by clicking HERE.
Click on any image below to enlarge.
1. Start with a half sheet of cardstock. Lay the Small Inset Box Template so the corners line up evenly on one side, and use the side of the template as a guide to score the card.
Slide the template to the other side of the card sheet, again making sure the corners line up evenly, and score the card in the middle again. These score lines will fold to make a spine for the card, which will be necessary to allow the card to fold flat later.
2. Turn the template so it lines up the long way against the side and bottom of the sheet.
3. Use a .5mm mechanical pencil to trace the lines in the template onto your card. With a straight edge and cutting knife, cut ONLY the X lines. Use a scoring tool and straight edge to score all the other lines.
4. Flip the card over and fold at the score lines that make up the largest rectangle. These will be folded to the inside of the card.
5. Fold the remaining score lines the other direction, towards the front side of the card. After this step you can set the card aside.
6. Now you will create the happy oven. Stamp and color the oven. With a scoring tool and a straight edge, score the bottom of the oven door and the bottom of the broiler door. Next, with a craft knife and your straight edge cut out the other three sides of the doors so they will open.
7. Stamp & color in the cake and candles. Center the template on top of the cake and trace the largest rectangle lines with a .5mm pencil .
NOTE: If you would like to have your cake look three dimensional then you’ll need to stamp and color another cake (the candles only need to be stamped once). Instructions on making the cake 3-D are coming in step 9.
NOTE: If you would like to have your cake look three dimensional then you’ll need to stamp and color another cake (the candles only need to be stamped once). Instructions on making the cake 3-D are coming in step 9.
8. With your craft knife and straight edge cut a little under 1/16” inside the lines you just traced. Photo 8A shows the traced lines in black.
Photo 8B points to the cut lines with arrows to give you the idea.
9. Set the oven aside and get the cakes you colored in step 7. To add a three dimensional look, layer the second colored cake on top of the first with 1/8” foam tape (or two layers of 1/16” foam tape).
For the candles, leave a little tab on the bottom of the candles, slit the top of the cake and insert the candles through the slit. Then attach that to the oven cake.
10. Now take the oven inset you’ve made and glue it into the inset part of the card.
11. The next step is the broiler door saying. Stamp the saying and some hearts on a card, then position those behind the oven in the broiler door so it appears in the desired position.
Mark all four corners of the broiler door on the saying card with a dot. Then, using a straight edge and a cutting knife cut between the dots so your saying will be just the right size to glue in place when assembling the final card.
12. Decorate the front of the card. This example uses Doodlebug paper (available in an Art Gone Wild paper pack) cut with some different circle punches.
13. Before attaching the oven to the card, you may want to trim the edges nice and neat. This example uses a corner rounder for the top two corners. Attach the oven and then the broiler door saying from step 11.
14. Stamp, color and cut out the oven mitt & potholder and attach to the oven door. Use some foam tape to add a 3-D effect.
15. The pink dot in photo 15A is a standard 1/4” hole punch circle. It should be glued into place on the inside top edge of the oven door with just a little of it hanging off.
This will create a catch to keep the oven door closed (click on photo to see enlargement). A gentle tug of the potholder decoration should pop the door back open.
16. When the card is open the back of the inset is visible. Using a piece of paper that matches the front decoration (corner folded over in this photo to show pattern), trace the larger rectangle of the template onto it and cut out just inside the traced lines. Glue the paper cutout to the back of the inset as shown in the next step.
17. Decorate the inside of the card with another saying and more paper cutouts.
You're done!