Hi Crafters,
how are you all?
I am fine today, over here the fall holidays started and I am more than happy to be rid of all the homework for two weeks. The last few weeks were really tiresome.
So, today I am showing you a school related card, even though we're already 5 or 6 weeks into the new term.
A few days ago, I found to photos of cards I made on my mobile, that I had totally forgotten. Here's the first of them. The school bag is a digital freebie and the robot is from a digital stamp collection. Both are printed on watercolour paper. I coloured the images with water colours, but I am not sure anymore, which medium. Probably my Inktense pencils.
Then I just adhered the panel on a green card base. No sentiment this time, I wrote a personal message on the inside.
Also, I am proud to announce, that my card with the little dog made the top 3 over at Night Shift Stamping.
Hugs
Ela
Challenges:
Less is More: #348 Water Colour
Simon says Stamp: Anything goes
Addicted to Stamps an More: #261 Anything goes
Always Fun Challenges: #25 Anything goes
Hello again,
last night I had a night off so I spent some quality time with myself and my craft supplies. I actually managed to create three cards, but I'll only show you this one today.
The Panda images are a freebie for the Task for Two Tuesday Challenge. As one of my daughters is currently nonstop doodling this Panda image (below), I absolutely wanted to try them.
The little lady for whom the card is intended is going to start school only next year, but this way I am at least prepared...
I coloured the Pandas with my alcohol markers and die cut the Polaroid frames for them. Then I stamped, coloured and cut out the books as an embellishment. I heat embossed her name, Nala, on the chalk board, because it practically screams "Write on me".
I struggled a bit with the background, I really liked the images on white, but I wanted it more cheerful for a child, so I ended up using the water colour rainbow gradient I created ages ago.
Now, over to you, I strongly encourage you to check out Task for Two Tuesday, I love their cards and challenges and they also have some adorable freebies.
Have a great week-end
Ela
Challenges:
Task for Two Tuesday: #83 Freebie Panda
Simon says Stamp: Back to School
Hello out there,
how are you? Me, I am glad the week is almost over, it's been a rather trying one, including a broken water-tap, a power outage and the requirement of a new house lead-in. So hopefully, next week will be better.
Today, I have another school themed card for you. Or rather, I have two.
My friend asked me to help her create some school themed invitations, for her foster son's birthday party. So we mass produced these cards.
We stamped the white card front with an alphabet background stamp in green. For the blackboard frame we used craft card stock and a large wood structure stamp with brown ink. The blackboard itself is black card stock, with quite a bit white pigment ink and white heat embossing. And we cut up a sponge for all the little sponges. The sentiment says "Invitation" in German.
My friend initially wanted to create the card fronts with a rainbow colour scheme, but that was just a bit much for a mass production. But I used the idea, to create a card for the boy himself, as he started school shortly after his Birthday.
I used the same design, except for the colour scheme and the sentiment.
As my friend needed these cards rather at short notice, I fell back on a design idea I had used several times in the past, but none of the cards look the same. The original idea by Tami was actually a Valentine's card.
See here 's the evolution of a card.
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I think it's rather fun to see how one idea can lead to so many different cards over the years...
Which one do you like best?
Love
Ela
Challenges:
Night Shift Stamping: No patterned paper
Simon says Stamp: Back to School
Hi Crafters,
how are you all? Ready to send your kids back to school?
For us, school starts again on Monday and I am quite sad the holidays are over already. I am not a morning person and the challenge of all three of us trying to occupy the bathroom at the same time - before coffee - rather gets on my nerves.
So, for the occasion, I'd like to show you a school shaker card I created, using a German school themed stamp set. It includes a blackboard, a globe and many, many, little school related items, like pens, books, rulers, scissors, a smartphone, even tiny paper clips.
I wanted to use a whole lot of these in a shaker window, so I stamped and coloured them with alcohol markers. Fuzzy cutting them was a bit of a nuisance, but I did it anyway...
Then I used embossing paste and my much loved brick wall stencil, to get some structure on the white card base. While that dried, I stamped the blackbord on a white panel and created the shaker window.
I wanted to use the sentiment in the set, which reads "Have lots of fun at school", but I fidgeted quite a bit on the where and how to place it. In the end I setteled on a black strip all across the shaker panel and white heat embossing. I embellished the sentiment with the globe, which I adhered with foam tape.
Looking back, I probably should have chosen a black panel behind the shaker, to make it look more like a blackboard, but then I would have had to colour the shaker elements much lighter.
So that's it for now, enjoy the rest of the holidays.
Ela
Challenges:
Night Shift Stamping: Anything goes
Simon says Stamp: For a Child
Hi Crafters,
where we live, school is starting today. I honestly wish it wouldn't. I really enjoy not having to drive the girls to school every day and not having to send them to bed at any specific time. The summer holidays are always a time of easy going.
Well, it can't be changed, we enjoyed our holidays, and now it's back to business for all of us.
Also my friend's daughter is starting school this summer, and I created a card for her. I don't own a single stamp set for school, so I had to make do with what I had.
I decided to go with a chalkboard again. I did that before and it's relatively easy, always effective and so fitting, for a school card. So I created a black panel and a craft coloured matte for it. I stamped the matte with my wood grain stamp in brown ink, so it looks like a wooden frame. Then I stamped the sentiment and little images on the black panel and heat embossed them in white. After that I sponged white pigment ink around the edges and over the panel, to make it look like a half cleaned chalk board. The tag was made in the same way.
For the card I wanted an animal to look at the board, so I checked all my critter stamp sets. The little fox from Avery Elle's "more stories" was perfect, but I wanted him to have a school bag. As I don't have such a stamp I checked the Internet for a nice clip art as an example and drew the bag and apple myself on water colour paper. Then I masked off the right side and stamped the fox.
I watercolour the image with my inktense pencils and fuzzy cut it.
For the card base I had planned to adhere lots of die cut letters white on white to create a faux dry embossed look, but that was too plain and boring. After all, that's for a 6 year old, it should be fun. So I decided the card needed more bright apple green, to tie in the leaf of the apple. I die cut the letters in green instead and adhered them at random on the white card base.
At last I assembled the card, mounting the fox on foam dots and added glossy accents to the apple and hearts and some silver pearl pen on the buckles of the bag.
For the envelope, I picked a matching bright green ready made envelope and just adhered the letters in white.
I must say, I love how that card turned out. The bright green really makes me happy and it even fits with gift we picked, a book about an inventive frog.
I think I'll create the same card again, because there are still some more kids among our friends who
will start school next year, or the year after.And those friends don't know each other, so they will never know. ;)
I hope you all have a great day!
Hugs
Ela
Hello Crafters,
as school will start again soon, I created to more blackboard cards, similar to those I did for my daughters' teachers.
The idea has come a very long way, the original inspiration was from Tami White, this card:
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It originally inspired me to this card, which was still pretty close to the original:
The sentiment is "School is cool". I created that one last year, now this summer, I needed two cards for teachers and two more for school starters. So I took the old inspiration and made something new of it. The sentiment for the teachers says "Thanks a lot".
For the two school starters, I had to change the sentiment of course, and to my big frustration I only had a tiny one from Stampin' Up. So I used more pictures and made it more playful, which is probably quite fitting anyway. Here is the next version:
I luckily had red envelops at hand that are almost the same red, so I stamped them with the same background stamp as the card base. The letters on the envelop are once again cut with the Tim Holtz Alphabetical die, definitely a die I don't regret having bought.
Love
Ela
Hello out there,
one of the reasons, I finally started my own blog, is that I've always wanted to participate in card making challenges.
So let's start with this back to school card, I created for Simon Says Stamp Challange Blog. It says "School is cool". The words "Schule" is stamped with Heyda alphabet stamps, the rest is either handdrawn or from the stampset Tween Scene by Scrappy cat.
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| School is cool |
And I have another one, which happened to fit perfectly. Paperminutes called for cars this week, and I happend to need a birthday card for a little cars fan, so here is my result. I coloured in Lightning McQueen and the flash with my daughters' watercolour pencils. The greeting I had in mind, just wouldn't fit in, so I decided against it.
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| Lightning McQueen |
Sorry the pictures are so bad, they were taken with my mobile...
See you soon
Ela