We were originally planning on having these little pals guarding our guest book, but when our plans had to change, they became the perfect decorations for the ceremony. Huge shout out to Katie and Jacob for staking them into the ground for us with skewers and copious amounts of packing tape as we rushed to start the ceremony in time. Unfortunately I didn't think to get any pictures of the soldiers side by side, but I made one left handed (for Brian) and one right handed (for me). These could be great for any sort of Alice themed celebration.
I didn't manage to get a good picture of the second card soldier during our wedding, so here she is doing a Queen of Hearts Disneybound with me. Yes, I stole her scepter for this look.
Materials:
*White foam sheet
*Red poster paper
*Red cardstock
*White cardstock
*Scissors or die cutting machine
*Glue
*Wooden dowel
*Gold acrylic paint
*Red felt
*White felt
*Red heart shaped rhinestones
Directions:
*To construct the head for your card soldier, begin by cutting out a large heart from red cardstock. This heart should take up most of the sheet of cardstock.
*Cut out a smaller heart from white cardstock, sized to fit inside the red heart (see picture a few lines down of the assembled head for reference).
*Cut out two smaller hearts from red cardstock of unequal sizes (see pic a few lines down). These will form the mouth and eyes of your card soldier.
*Glue together the four hearts, as shown below:
*For the body of the card soldier, cut out playing card numbers and hearts. For example, for the "2" card, I cut out two 2's, one to go in either diagonal corner, two small hearts denoting the suit to go in the corners with the numbers, and two bigger hearts to form the arrangement in the center of the card.
*Glue down your shapes in an arrangement like the one shown below:
*Glue the card soldier's head to its body.
*Cut arms from red poster paper.
*Glue the arms to the back of the card soldier and trim any excess cardstock that sticks out around the soldier's "shoulders."
*To make the scepter, begin by painting a wooden dowel gold. Let dry.
*Cut out four hearts from red felt, and four slightly smaller hearts from white felt.
*Glue the white hearts to the red hearts.
*Glue some red heart shaped rhinestones to the white felt.
*Glue the centers of the hearts to the wooden dowels at equally spaced intervals, so the center of each heart will be spaced 1/4 of the way around the dowel from the next heart's center. The hearts will be pushing against each other and overlapping at this stage.
*Glue together the edges of neighboring hearts.
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