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12 years ago
Yesterday I started this page....the top part only....then I got kinda bored and stopped....
Yesterday I punched out the oval from a piece of cardstock and used the hole as a template to draw the oval onto the watercolor paper. NOT the best answer! After I drew and painted everything inside the ovals I filled in the black background and I did a really lousy job of going around the ovals with the black marker! So, today I did it differently. I used the piece that was punched out and drew around it with the marker first, then did all the drawing and painting. WAY better!
And that's why we practice right?
Much has happened since last I wrote..... And now starts my list of excuses for not posting in a while....
- I took a little mini vacation to a friend's house
- My iPad stopped charging!!! so I had to go to the apple store for diagnosis since they wanted to charge me $70 for a phone call consult!!! NOT!! Thankfully, it is still under warranty so the replacement charger cable was free.
- I have been trying more new apps out... My app Drawing Folder now looks like this! So many choices, how does one choose just one?
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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!
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 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.
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!
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 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.
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!
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 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.
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??
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