Tuesday 23 November 2021

Day 23 at Beccy's Place - U is for Unconventional

. . . using an unconventional image for Christmas!

I'm playing along with the

Ninth Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place


I'm not colouring at the moment but I am working on Christmas craft projects for creative little hands around our neighbourhood ... the endless months of Covid-19 lockdowns has brought our community much closer and I look forward to sharing more crafty adventures with them over the coming weekends and school holidays now that restrictions have eased.

Beccy's prompt for Day 23 is the letter "U"
(Beccy's post with "U" inspiration words and
elegant under the mistletoe card to inspire is HERE)

My "U" kids Christmas activity a crayon colouring card
made using an unconventional Christmas image.
This is my fourth crayon colouring card design this year,
you can see the other ones via the links at the end of this post.

Introducing Edna from the Poultry In Motion digital stamp set from Beccy's Place.
Yes, she is very merry, dancing with joy beneath the Festive Baubles because . . .
. . . Christmas is turkey time!


I used a cut file for the crayon colouring card (details and link below), enlarged it to 5 1/2" square front panel (1/2" spine and 5 1/2" square back panel), added a fun wavy matting layer (details and link below) for both the front image panel and for the crayon holder inside.  I removed the perforated cuts from the crayon holder (I found that it was easily torn by little hands removing the crayons when I last made them and hope this will make them stronger) and added the crayon holder to the inner wavy matting layer for inside the card.

I opened the Edna image from the Poultry In Motion and the Five Baubles image from the Festive Baubles digital stamp sets from Beccy's Place in Silhouette Studio, sized her to fit nicely under the groovy disco baubles on the wavy panel for the front of the card.  I added a fun sentiment, printed the image panels and cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  I cut the card bases and crayon holder layers, burnishing the folds with a bone folder then adhered all the layers in place.  It was fun choosing the crayons to go inside and I know that little hands will enjoy colouring the very merry dancing Edna.


*** INGREDIENTS ***
Beccy's Place - digital stamp - Edna from Poultry In Motion
Beccy's Place - digital stamp - Five Baubles image from Festive Baubles
Silhouette Cameo
Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #249841
Happy Birthday Coloring Card - Cactus - by MiniLou
(note: I enlarged the outer card frame to be 5 1/2" square, 
removed the perforated fold lines from the crayon holders,
added the original sized crayon holders to a wavy square (link below),
I also used the fun Edna and Five Baubles digital stamps by Beccy's Place
instead of the cactus image supplied with the cut file)
cardstock
crayons
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive

*** REFERENCE ***

This project was inspired by the crayon colouring cards I made HERE for "Day 6 at Beccy's Place - CASE Yourself" (with others made several years ago linked in the Day 6 blog post), HERE for "Day 9 at Beccy's Place - H" and HERE for "Day 10 at Beccy's Place - I"

2 comments:

  1. "Unconventional" is the perfect word to describe the image for your Christmas card Tracy... but why not?? She's a happy looking chook who's probably having a wonderful time celebrating the holidays. And she's probably happy that it's traditional to eat turkey for dinner and not chicken! Love it!
    Cheers,
    Beccy

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    1. Thank You Beccy :)
      With Merry Edna, they can have a giggle while they colour, they might even have a little dance around the lawn with her too.

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