When I was pregnant with each of my girls I had a blessingway (or mother shower - an alternative to a baby shower, where the focus is on the mother and supporting her in preparing for an empowering birth experience). Both times I felt babushkas were necessary for my hand crafted invitations to guests.
In 2007 I made these simple cards:
In 2010 I found this template
for a matryoshka/paper doll style greeting card and sent the link to
me. I fell in LOVE with the concept, but I wasn't keen on that
particular shape for the matryoshkas, so I decided to make my own
template to make a shorter, fatter doll.
I used a sheet of A4 paper, grey lead
pencil and a stencil set with various sized circles to create my own
template. I played around with overlapping, different sized circles
until I got them to make the shapes and sizes I wanted. And I made sure
they joined in the middle so I could concertina fold them closed.
Almost
finished, they needed details (the middle ones were what they looked
like open, side two are what they look like folded closed):
And then for the details...
I debated whether or not to put anything on the biggest one's belly, but (obviously) decided less was more.
They also had a little magnet on the back of them so they can be stuck to the fridge :) (coz who doesn't hate losing precious fridge magnets to new invitations, artwork etc that goes on the fridge?!).
By the end of this craft project I was having nightmares about these sweet little faces coming to get me, lol:
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