Keep'em Busy

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If you told me that of all the dies that I own I could keep only one , without any hesitation I would choose this one: the Crayon Box!  I USE IT ALL THE TIME!
I will actually have several examples of how I use it but I'll just show a couple here, today.

This idea started with a cereal box.  Am I the only one that has a HARD time throwing that PERFECT cardboard away??  Well, today I decided to use some up by making a set of children's  personalized memory cards.  


the thing that makes these even more special is that this is Kamryn's actual handwriting.  I made a True Type Font out of it sometime last year.

The Steps I used were as follows:

1. made printed out two sheets of large letters: (you could skip this step and let your child write each letter of their name directly onto a blank card. 


 
 then I cut the cereal box up using a "playing card" die from AccuCut ... because I have one... but it is a 2.5"x3.5" card with round corners... easy enough to recreate without a die.  However, now that I think of it.... an even better solution is to use the Escort Card Pinnovations Die, 
 
I could have glued the printed page down onto the cereal box and quick and easy punched all eight cards at one time!  They are a bit smaller at 2.5" x 3.375" but we are talking kids here and they won't care.  Normally, it would make me crazy if something wasn't just perfect, but, hey.... quicker/easier trumps perfect in this case!

Anyway, this is what I had at this point:


Ewwwww... kinda plain!  So I went back to the drawing board and printed out a couple more sheets of the pattern I had made for the box, cut/ glued and ta-da:
 



As I was making this set I was thinking how much fun it would be to make a different personalized  set for each child as a party favor.
 
Now for idea number 2 of my "Keep'em Busy" ideas

This time I cut a clear box out of acrylic and used it for its intended purpose... crayons... and then some...

I cut 3.5" x 5" pieces from my pattered paper and from plain typing/copy paper then used my sewing machine to stitch the pages (about 10) together, then folded them in half to create the perfect little drawing tablets.  I also included a little pen because kids LOVE pens!




 

Again, I think these would make great party favors.  And, I would think that mothers would love having either of these ideas in their purse or glove compartment to help keep the kids occupied.

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Keep'em Busy1

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If you told me that of all the dies that I own I could keep only one , without any hesitation I would choose this one: the Crayon Box!  I USE IT ALL THE TIME!
I will actually have several examples of how I use it but I'll just show a couple here, today.

This idea started with a cereal box.  Am I the only one that has a HARD time throwing that PERFECT cardboard away??  Well, today I decided to use some up by making a set of children's  personalized memory cards.  


the thing that makes these even more special is that this is Kamryn's actual handwriting.  I made a True Type Font out of it sometime last year.

The Steps I used were as follows:

1. made printed out two sheets of large letters: (you could skip this step and let your child write each letter of their name directly onto a blank card. 


 
 then I cut the cereal box up using a "playing card" die from AccuCut ... because I have one... but it is a 2.5"x3.5" card with round corners... easy enough to recreate without a die.  However, now that I think of it.... an even better solution is to use the Escort Card Pinnovations Die, 
 
I could have glued the printed page down onto the cereal box and quick and easy punched all eight cards at one time!  They are a bit smaller at 2.5" x 3.375" but we are talking kids here and they won't care.  Normally, it would make me crazy if something wasn't just perfect, but, hey.... quicker/easier trumps perfect in this case!

Anyway, this is what I had at this point:


Ewwwww... kinda plain!  So I went back to the drawing board and printed out a couple more sheets of the pattern I had made for the box, cut/ glued and ta-da:
 



As I was making this set I was thinking how much fun it would be to make a different personalized  set for each child as a party favor.
 
Now for idea number 2 of my "Keep'em Busy" ideas

This time I cut a clear box out of acrylic and used it for its intended purpose... crayons... and then some...


I cut 3.5" x 5" pieces from my pattered paper and from plain typing/copy paper then used my sewing machine to stitch the pages (about 10) together, then folded them in half to create the perfect little drawing tablets.  I also included a little pen because kids LOVE pens!

 

Again, I think these would make great party favors.  And, I would think that mothers would love having either of these ideas in their purse or glove compartment to help keep the kids occupied.

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Keep' em Busy!

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If you told me that of all the dies that I own I could keep only one , without any hesitation I would choose this one: the Crayon Box!  I USE IT ALL THE TIME!
I will actually have several examples of how I use it but I'll just show a couple here, today.

This idea started with a cereal box.  Am I the only one that has a HARD time throwing that PERFECT cardboard away??  Well, today I decided to use some up by making a set of children's  personalized memory cards.  


the thing that makes these even more special is that this is Kamryn's actual handwriting.  I made a True Type Font out of it sometime last year.

The Steps I used were as follows:

1. made printed out two sheets of large letters: (you could skip this step and let your child write each letter of their name directly onto a blank card. 


 
 then I cut the cereal box up using a "playing card" die from AccuCut ... because I have one... but it is a 2.5"x3.5" card with round corners... easy enough to recreate without a die.  However, now that I think of it.... an even better solution is to use the Escort Card Pinnovations Die, 
 
I could have glued the printed page down onto the cereal box and quick and easy punched all eight cards at one time!  They are a bit smaller at 2.5" x 3.375" but we are talking kids here and they won't care.  Normally, it would make me crazy if something wasn't just perfect, but, hey.... quicker/easier trumps perfect in this case!

Anyway, this is what I had at this point:


Ewwwww... kinda plain!  So I went back to the drawing board and printed out a couple more sheets of the pattern I had made for the box, cut/ glued and ta-da:
 



As I was making this set I was thinking how much fun it would be to make a different personalized  set for each child as a party favor.
 
Now for idea number 2 of my "Keep'em Busy" ideas

This time I cut a clear box out of acrylic and used it for its intended purpose... crayons... and then some...

I cut 3.5" x 5" pieces from my pattered paper and from plain typing/copy paper then used my sewing machine to stitch the pages (about 10) together, then folded them in half to create the perfect little drawing tablets.  I also included a little pen because kids LOVE pens!






Again, I think these would make great party favors.  And, I would think that mothers would love having either of these ideas in their purse or glove compartment to help keep the kids occupied.

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Trying to Make It Look Like Real Watercolor

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My long term goal is to make most of what I do on the iPad LOOK like I did it on a piece of paper and I can tell already that "real" watercolor is going to be my biggest challenge....so, I practiced that today.  Even with "watercolor" brushes it isn't easy!  A class would be really nice. This is actually a "window" I saw on pinterest that was really watercolored so I wanted to see if i could do it. (there was a mouse inside the window so this isn't a real copy).  Anyway,I have looked at it so long that I can't tell if I got it or not??

Then I needed to put something inside the "window" and I went with a cat... I spent about 1/10th the time on the cat because I wasn't really "working" on learning anything with it.  The good news is that everything is separate so I can always use the window for something more watercolor-y later.
 



 


 


 


 


 

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Playing With Procreate for the iPad

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All but the text was done using Procreate...the text (the large is MFH Poster Doodle) was added last in iDraw.


 

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Changing AGAIN!

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Would you believe I have started ANOTHER blog!  Good thing these things are free!!! (I guess???).  The new one is all about the classes I am now teaching.  It is set up to tell you everything you need to know about my classes, scheduling and templates used in the classes that are available for purchase.  If you get a chance stop by and give suggestions, I can always use those!

http://www.nancybabb-classes.blogspot.com/

Thanks, hope to see you there!

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Fit for a Princess

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I decided to play along with Pollycraft's Monday Challenge this week.  The challenge this week was "Fit for a Princess...and if there's one thing I have, it's a Princess (or 2 or 12!)

Here are a few... all from http://www.digitaldesigndivas.com/
 

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I Thought it was "The Princess and the P...E...A

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