Day 30 at Beccy's Place - Do What You Love

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 30 is "Do What You Love"

(Beccy's post about Doing What She Loves and very

merry hot chocolate card to inspire is HERE)

My "Do What You Love" kids Christmas activity is for

crayon colouring cards with a non-traditional image.

I love making things, I love giving people a reason to smile

and I love encouraging creativity in kids,

so this activity ticks all the right boxes today.

This is my ninth crayon colouring card design this year,

you can see the other ones via the links at the end of this post.

These crayon colouring cards use the Neville gnome image

from the Gnomes In My Garden digital stamp set by Beccy's Place.

I love using the gnome images from this stamp set, they make me smile all year 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 Neville image from the Gnomes In My Garden 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 "naughty or nice" question as a sentiment (he looks like he is asking the question and thinking deeply about the answer), 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 this cutie.

Can you hear Neville asking the question?

I'm sure he has a gruff but kind voice.

*** INGREDIENTS ***

Beccy's Place - digital stamp - Neville gnome image from Gnomes In My Garden

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 Neville gnome digital stamp 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", 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", HERE for "Day 11 at Beccy's Place - J" and HERE for "Day 24 at Beccy's Place - Something Sweet".