Cute Felt Anniversary Card!

Here is an easy tutorial on how to make physical felt cards for your loved ones, for any occasion! 

You can hang it on a wall, and it would make an adorable addition to any room. 

December 7th was Dave and I's 7th anniversary!  I was 15 when we got together, and he was 16.  He's the best thing that has ever happened to me! 

Our mutual favorite animal [or one of our favorites] is the manatee.  They have no natural enemies and our quite fast.  They also are very intelligent.  

You will need:

• A lot of different kinds of felt, mostly bits and pieces, with one to two solid pieces for a background
• Glue, hot glue or fabric/tacky glue
• Paint or puff paint for details

All in all this card will end up being $3 to $4

I looked up some different cartoon manatees to get a basic shape.

I needed pieces of gray for the manatees themselves.

I chose to use a pretty blue for the background color. I glued two sheets together to make them more sturdy.

I chose to use felt in the color "Silver Grey" for my manatees.

I traced a basic shape onto the felt.

Here it is with my hand for sizing purposes.  I realized that it looks quite small on its own, but they are actually larger.

I then cut out the manatee from the sheet of felt with some fabric scissors.  

I decided to make the marked side of the manatee the back side.  I needed two manatees cut.

I then traced it right side up, to make two different facing manatees.

I cut out little fins similar to the shape and size of my tracing.  I think they are just adorable.

Here is a close up of the manatees.  I made them hold hands! Then I cut out a little mouth for the manatees.

I made the girl manatee, the one on the right side, have a smaller mouth than the male manatee.

This is what they look like with both their mouths, a little zoomed out.  

I decided to make the girl manatee look a little girlier and cut out two hearts and a circle out of pink felt.  I put the points of the heart together, and put the circle on top of the points.  I often fuss over the shape of bows, but thought this was simple and cute, and fitting, as well.

Oh, I just think they are so cute! I used hot glue to affix all these pieces, but you could use fabric or tacky glue as well.

You can see that they are hearts and a circle in this picture.  

Then I decided to add pennant flags to the top.  I cut out 16 triangles and glued them to the top.  Five for happy and eleven for anniversary.  

I overlapped them a bit, as shown in this picture.  I wrote "happy anniversary" in puff paint on them, but I do not have a picture of it yet.  

Then I started making food items for the side, to make it a true manatee party.  I cut a tan circle out, as well as a smaller yellow circle, and five little red circles.  This, is a half pepperoni, half cheese pizza.  I made this because I am vegetarian and Dave and I always make our pizzas like this.

Then I decided to make a cheese quesadilla.  I cut a cream circle and a yellow half circle.  

I folded the cream circle over the yellow circle and glued it all down.

After cutting out the red circles, I noticed that a perfect little bow tie had been made.  I decided it was perfect for DaveO manatee. :]

Here is a little cupcake I made, with a cherry on top.

These are the broken down parts of the cupcake.

I then decided to make a burrito, after our love of Chipotle. 

Here is what my card looked like at this point. 

I folded in two sides of the circle, and rolled it up, then glued it down.

This is what it looked like finished. 

I then glued that down.  

This picture may be more clear.

I then added little puff paint eyes for the manatees, where they were shown in my tracing.  I don't have a picture of them after I put them on, but I will put one up soon!

There are all kinds of details and options in making felt cards like this.

Thanks so much for reading!

♥Riley

P.S.  I'd love to see your interpretations! :]