Q is for Quick & Quirky Q-Tip Cards

It's time for the 11th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

Day 19 - Q

Q is for Quick & Quirky Q-Tip Cards

Q-tips are known as cotton buds here in Australia

I was inspired by THIS * kids Q-Tip craft activity and had so

much fun creating my quicker-and-easier-to make" version.

I had even more fun dotting my sample card and I hope that the

little hands that come to play at our house enjoy this activity too.

... CAUTION ...

This activity can be Quite messy, messy but fun!

I started by opening another one of my favourite Christmas sentiments from Beccy's Place, "twinkle, twinkle Christmas lights" (from the Merle digital stamp set), in Silhouette Studio, along with a Christmas Lights cut file (details below).  I set my mat to Letter cardstock size, so that I could make two A2 (5 1/2" x 4 1/4") top folding cards from each sheet.  I sized the sentiment to fit nicely in the middle of what would become the front of the card.  I framed the sentiment with the Christmas light string design (just the string, not the ornaments) and set them to be printed, not cut.  One click to send it to print and 10 sheets later I was scoring the sheets in half along the narrow side, cutting in half across the long side and I had twenty cards ready to be folded and coloured.

   

Little hands are going to have such dotty adventures with these,

as I will have assorted paints, glitter and glitter glue with the

cotton tips and their imagination can get super creative ...

while I'm secretly developing their hand-eye co-ordination skills :)

... and I have lots of cards for them to use,

along with more little paint pots on order.

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INGREDIENTS

"twinkle, twinkle Christmas lights" digital sentiment from the Merle digital stamp set

- from the Beccy’s Place Store 

Christmas Lights - cut file by Miss Kate Cuttables

- Silhouette Design Store Design ID # 238900

300gsm smooth white cardstock

scoreboard and bone folder - to form card bases

Cotton Buds - for colouring / painting

- also known as Q-Tips

assorted acrylic paints - for colouring / painting

assorted glitter glue - instead of cotton tip dotting

assorted glitter - to mix with paint or sprinkle on dotted lights

* Note: this cute card design was inspired by the Q-Tip Painted Christmas Lights

project shared on The Best Ideas For Kids blog.  Instead of doodling lines to create

the Christmas Lights to colour, I used a digital Christmas Lights design,

making it quicker and easier for me to make lots of them for Little Hands. *

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I have entered my cards in the

11th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place