Today I'm showing a birthday card using parts from a comic book. Fun part about papercrafting is you can literally use anything you want! For this one, I used a Deadpool comic. I love my comic books, so it's a little painful to chop them up, but I used a new comic, instead of an older one that costs more money, so it's not as bad.
Where I live, it's a little town about 45mins out of the city, so we don't really have a lot of cool shops to buy stuff like this from, so I went to a little store we have that sells some comics. When I asked the guy who owns it if he had any new ones that just came out, he said he only had 2 copies, as he mostly handles older comics that are stored in plastic and placed in boxes. The cheapest they had of those was $25, and of course, no way would I chop on of those up! Especially for those kind of prices.
It probably would have been just as easy to find pictures online, and print them out on cardstock, which, next time I will have to do that, but I just wanted the comic this time around because I was going to do more than just make a card. It was a card and gift combo for a friends birthday.
The guy at the store almost had a heart attack when he asked why I was buying both his new copies of Deadpool lol of course he wouldn't want to hear I'm cutting them up! I grimace a little at the thought too, but I've done this before, so I knew what I was doing. When I was in HS, I used to spend every single Saturday in a comic book shop with my dad. We would spend hours looking around, reading comics, talking with the employees. We knew everyone there, and they always took good care of us! I would buy extra comics of the ones I knew friends liked, and would make boxes decorated with the pages. It was so they could keep snacks or little things in them in their rooms or backpacks.
Inside the card I kept simple. Deadpool and a small space to put sentiments.
You can really do this with any comic book, or even game magazine (which, I have a ton of!) Things like this I find are great for older kids/teens, or even just boys. Lets face it, most of us crafters are women, and we tend to make our cards a bit on the girly side lol I love it, but my 17yr old nephew, not so much.
Along with my card, is the box I made. I honestly can't remember if got the boxes at Joanns, Michaels or Hobby Lobby... but it doesn't really matter. I got plain chipboard boxes, comes 3 to a set for a few bucks. I painted the box black with black acrylic paint, then found the pictures I felt were the best for the box.
While I was purchasing my comics at the little shop, the guy gave me a few flyers with Deadpool on them to try and get me to not chop up a perfectly good comic lol. It was very nice of him to include a few different things for me for my project. On the inside of the box lid, I put my comic page down like I did for the rest of the box, but, one of the flyers the guy gave me was very thick, and I loved the picture on it. Because of the size of it, I didn't really have anywhere I could put it, so I though it would be cool when the lid was removed, this badass looking picture would pop out at you! I used pop dots on it so it would stand out.
And last, the inside of the box.
