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 24 is "Something Sweet"
(Beccy's post about sweet and tasty holiday treats and
elf cooking Gingerbread men card to inspire is HERE)
My "Something Sweet" kids Christmas activity is for
crayon colouring cards with a Sweet & Tasty image.
This is my eighth crayon colouring card design this year,
you can see the other ones via the links at the end of this post.
Carrots make for a refreshing sweet treat and I am sure that Santa will enjoy crunching into a bunch with Rudolph after nibbling cookies and sipping milk all night long.
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
Carrot Bunch image from the
Easter Joy digital stamp set in Silhouette Studio, sized the him to fit nicely on the wavy panel for the front of the card. I added the "Jingle Bells" as a 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 these sweet and tasty treats.
*** INGREDIENTS ***
Silhouette Cameo
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),
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", HERE for "Day 10 at Beccy's Place - I", HERE for "Day 23 at Beccy's Place - U", HERE for "Day 13 at Beccy's Place - K", HERE for "Day 16 at Beccy's Place - N" and HERE for "Day 11 at Beccy's Place - J"
Now this is clever Tracy! I never would have thought to use the carrots image for Christmas, but it's perfect! Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Beccy
Thank You Beccy :)
DeleteYour fun prompts always stretch our creative ideas each day and I'm glad that I have something a little non-traditional for them to colour too.