Saturday 13 September 2014

C4C 253 Back to School

Good morning friends!

Between my Mother-in-Law and our VERY pregnant daughter, yesterday we managed to get half of our store room packed up and ready for the movers. More progress!

Saturday means a new challenge at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog, and this week our hostess Danielle's challenge is 'Back To School'.

Oh My Goodness, this challenge gave me fits.  I have the cutest school themed stamp set - retired, by Stampin' Up - and I just knew it would be perfect for the challenge. I could not find it. That always makes me crazy - my Stampin' Up sets are normally kept together, and I just couldn't spend any more time looking for this one. As it is, squeezing time out of packing for our upcoming move just to make a card is hard enough!

It's also hard to 'change gears' when you have something in mind, never mind the fact that I was getting panicky because my free time was almost up and I had done nothing but tear apart stamp drawers.

Finally I decided to use Poppy the Owl with a ruler and an apple stamp. Well it turns out - after going through my entire food stamp drawer TWICE - that the apple I wanted to use was in the missing school stamp set.  I found the ruler stamp, but it was too big and grungy for the feel of the card. AACK.

Then I spied my (old) binder full of (old) stickers.  Ah - HAH -- felt apple stickers.

So this is my card and it's as 'school themed' as I get this week. But hey - apples count, right?


I have so much fun with Karen Burniston's Character dies ... I cut Poppy the Owl out of blue patterned paper, and tucked one of the felt apple stickers under her wing.  A couple of the apples were adhered to white card stock and fussy cut leaving a narrow border.


The Cloud Frame Edges were in the Summer 2014 die release - how cute are they?  I want to cut them out of purple and blue to make a Halloween card. To speed up the process of attaching them, I adhered white card stock to double sided adhesive then die cut the edges.


I stamped the lines on the oval (after masking the outer edges with Post-It notes), then added the hand lettering.  Those spectacles are on the Props 1 die and I thought they were a fun touch. Initially I was going to pt them on Poppy the Owl, but liked them better on the apple.


After I finished my card, I packed up a couple of boxes in my studio for the move. It's hard to decide what stamps and supplies I can live without for the next month, because of course I'm sure I need EVERYTHING.  However, I did choose some stamp sets to put in a box and in the baseball set there was a perfect ruler stamp.

We also found a packet of CUTE little pencils when my friend was helping me pack up the studio and a couple of those would have been fun to use too.

No, I didn't scream.

I might have said a bad word or two though.  Sheesh.

Make sure to check out what the rest of the Crazies have come up with for the theme this week.

Supplies:
Oval Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Poppy the Owl, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Props 1, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Cloud Frame Edges, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Patterned paper - Doodlebug Design
White card stock
Double Sided Adhesive
Lines stamp - The Stamps of Life
Felt apple stickers - Sandy Lion
Copic markers


Thanks for stopping by today!




2 comments:

  1. so cute! Here scholl was beginning at monday!
    Elma

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  2. Oh I hate when you can't find something you know you have arghhhh ... glad you didn't let that put you off. Loving your owl card for this week's challenge :)

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