Strawberry Shortcake Cardboard Cutouts

My party planning brain comes equipped without any form of sanity switch off mechanism.  Meaning that sometimes I get an idea and I must follow through and execute said idea knowing full well that it will take a long time and will probably not be used again.  This project just happens to be one of those very things.  I first got the idea from the blog Red, Blonde and Burlap and thought it would be awesome to make a cardboard cut out of Strawberry Shortcake.

As I mulled the idea around in my head I just couldn't stop thinking about Strawberry's other friends.  This is where any normal person would turn turn their sanity switch on and stop what they were doing.  Not me.  I must proceed and spend my time painting giant cartoon characters onto cardboard.

My daughter did love helping make them and she would ask every morning if we could work on painting one together.  She did a pretty good job staying in the lines which I drew on with pencil using a projector.

Since I have gotten a few emails from people asking where I got the images I used, the websites http://www.hasbro.com/strawberryshortcake/en_US/ and  http://www.agkidzone.com/strawberry-shortcake both have good quality images you can download for free.

I stabilized the cutouts by using three pieces of cardboard running perpendicular to the character.  I cut three slits in the bottom of the character and inserted the cardboard pieces.  To the parts that stuck out in the back I added two pieces of cardboard running parallel to the character so that it had a little base.

They were great for the party but now what do I do with them?

Linking to:

http://www.thegirlcreative.com/
http://www.skiptomylou.org/ 
http://todayscreativeblog.net/
http://tatertotsandjello.com/