Now on to my projects. Yes, I made two. While I was creating my first card, I had to make a second one; one for each child. I usually start the first day of school out by leaving them a handmade card and way too much wording on the inside pouring out my thoughts, but it helps me :) And I hope that they look back on these when they're older and smile.
I created this adorable little card for my youngest who is starting Kindergarten this year.
I wanted something cute, but boyish. I decided on a simple color palette and layout for this card. I took my Darice ABCs embossing folder with some black linen cardstock and ran that through my machine. I then punched the left hand side with a Stampin' Up notebook punch and rounded the other two corners. I rubbed on some Memento Luxe in
Wedding Dress to mimic a chalkboard. I glued that down to my white card base.
I wanted a pop of color, so I took a red strip and trimmed to the same size as my black embossed piece and glued that down over it.
For the sentiment, I diecut out the fancy frame from the
Lawn Fawn Stitched Labels. Then, I used the "sweet wishes" from the
Lawn Fawn Milk and Cookies set. I just covered up the wording to be able to stack the type. You can certainly cut your stamps apart as well between wording if you'd like, but I wanted to keep it together. I stamped it with Memento in
Tuxedo Black. I glued that to the red strip with some foam adhesive. The little heart is from the
Lawn Fawn Party Animals set and I stamped that with
Tuxedo Black as well onto a piece of lined paper from the
6x6 Snowy Day Paper Pack. I also adhered that with foam adhesive.
The bear. He's from the
Lawn Fawn Party Animals set. Oh, is he ever cute. I stamped, colored him with my Spectrum Noir Markers, and cut him out leaving a little white border (to pop him off against the black background). I added in a dapper little bowtie from the
Beep Boop Birthday set, glued down with some foam adhesive and gave this bear a bitten cookie from the
Milk and Cookies set. Went along perfectly with my sentiment.
I'm going to miss my little guy during the day with me, so I hope this card makes him smile on his first full day without me!
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Now for my second card for this challenge. A card for my oldest, who is starting 5th grade. When did that happen??? So not ready for that! I kept his card simple since he is getting older, the cutesy stuff doesn't work with him!
For this card, I used a simple white card base and pulled out two green cardstock pieces from my stash. I cut and adhered them to the base slightly askew.
I diecut out the large tag from the
Lawn Fawn Tag You're It die set and the reinforcement circle out of a simple black and white dotted paper I had on hand. I used the three leaves from the
Flutter By set with Memento in
Tuxedo Black. I stamped those on the tag and colored them in with my Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Markers. Just a beautiful subtle look in variation in the colors used. I then stamped the sentiment HELLO from the
Hello Baby set and the 5th Grade is from
Milo's ABCs. Those were both stamped in
Tuxedo Black. For a little fun, I also inked those sentiments up with Memento Luxe in
Pistachio and stamped it off on a scrap piece of paper removing most of the ink. Then I stamped it a little off the original stamped sentiment image to give it a slight shadow.
I tied a simple black and white twine piece through the hole on the tag and adhered the entire tag down to the card with some foam adhesive. For interest, I used some white enamel dots on the card.
It's simple, a little more grown up and perfect for him. Welcoming him to 5th grade. Sigh. Why do they grow up so fast??
I hope you're inspired to create something fun for your little one(s), not so little one(s) or a teacher or anyone going back to school soon! Thanks for stopping by. Be sure to visit all the design team blogs for amazing inspiration!
