Summer craft adventures await! Keep scrolling to see our Starfish Wishes Card tutorial come to life with a surprise material and free printable too!

Today’s idea is one to put on the to-do list, so be sure to bookmark this link or pin it for later!

Today’s post actually came to mind before a recent trip to Dollar Tree.

Kinda like Walmart, you can pretty much purchase anything there. Toilet paper, tons of snacks, cleaning supplies – it can sometimes be a dream come true, especially if you are on a budget.

I personally love shopping at my local Dollar Tree, time to time, for various craft materials. Walking the aisles usually gets my crafty wheels spinning with new ideas for Glued To My Crafts. Especially the “outside the traditional” ones.

On that note, my wallet also LOVES this particular store because it’s usually much cheaper than a big box place AND I can typically find what I need, in a smaller size, which means no wasted or hoarding materials for us {especially when I get tired or run out of ideas of how to use it up!}

Kinda like the unexpected sandpaper I used for today’s tutorial. I don’t know about you but sandpaper is typically not something I buy for my craft stash. And although you can find sandpaper pretty much anywhere these days, to my surprise, this scratchy-like material is actually pretty expensive at some stores. But on a good note, you don’t need anything fancy {no name-brand or fancy ridges required when it comes to the type you use in today’s craft} so your wallet is going to love this beach themed card idea. Especially if you decide to hit up your local dollar store before hand!

So without further ado, today we are taking some basic sandpaper, scrapbook paper, as well as our free designed by us printable linked below and creating some awesome starfish paper cards for our summer fun gift giving. Whether for a birthday party, just because moments or you just want to get crafty this afternoon – all the details can be found below.

With all that being said, I really do hope you are inspired to make some starfish wishes come true with your child today! Happy crafting, my friends! Don’t forget to share pictures of your creations with us. It’s my day! #gluedtomycrafts

Sandpaper Starfish Card Craft Supplies:

• Free Starfish Themed Card File {Download HERE}
• White Cardstock Paper {8.5 x 11″}
• Color Printer
• Black Sharpie Marker or Pen
• Paper Craft Scissors
• Sandpaper <- Amazon Link but Dollar Tree is cheaper!
• Paper Trimmer
• Colored Cardstock {8.5 x 11″}
• Beached Themed Scrapbook Paper
• Glue Stick or Tape Runner Adhesive
• Wiggle Eyes
• optional – embellishments like stickers, glitter, rhinestones

Directions:

• First things first – download and print our FREE starfish card printable listed above in the supply list. You only need one printable to make THREE cards in one sitting. Print as many as you like of our file but only use it for personal use please.
• Once you have the starfish printable printed out, go ahead and grab your scissors.
• You are going to cut out the star shape in the printable and this will become your reusable tracing template for the sandpaper starfish.
• Next go ahead and trim out each rectangle “starfish wishes” written piece. Feel free to trim it up so it will fit on your card better. You will only need one of these per card.
• Set them all aside.
• Now grab your small paper star cutout, marker and sandpaper.
• Trace your star shape on the back of your sandpaper and trim it out with scissors. Again, you only need one star shape per card.
• Set the star pieces aside and discard excess sandpaper.
• Grab one sheet of colored cardstock {any color you like!}
• Go ahead and fold it in half to make a simple card.
• Now grab your beach themed scrapbook paper.
• Using a paper trimmer, trim it down a bit {in a rectangle shape} so it will fit on the front of the cardstock card you just made.
• Go ahead and glue it down to the front of the cardstock card.
• Now grab your sandpaper starfish paper piece and glue it to the center of the card front.
• Follow that up by adding the “words” you cut out earlier, below the starfish design.
• Finally – glue on some wiggle eyes to the starfish shape and give him a big ole’ smile with your Sharpie marker.
• Add anything else you see fit to the front of the card, then write something sweet in the inside and get ready to give it to someone special today!

Make It Your Own!

Instead of the beach themed scrapbook paper, you can make your own! Pull out the markers, crayons or even some washable watercolors that you use to make a “water” scene on some white paper. Then use it the same way as above.

Don’t have access to sandpaper? Use tan kraft colored cardstock instead. Throw in some gold glitter for extra fun!

One last tip – make your starfish POP from the page by using pop-up glue dots on the back of the shapes.

At Glued To My Crafts, we have a “slight” obsession with handmade cards! So if you are like us, you should click on over to our Important Crew Member Card Craft, Paper Llama Fabulous Card – Kid Craft and Paper Teacup Card – Kid Craft posts!