Bugaboo Back to School challenge

Today my card is for the Back to school challenge

on the Bugaboo Challenge Blog.

For my card I used the freebie from this week.

You find it HERE.

I used the image twice, for this time the twins, who

just turned 4, go to school for the first time.

They are at the beginning of making many friends

and lots of new experieces! Good luck boys xx

I colored the images with pencil and the stamp is  from

a Stampin'Up! set called Amazing Life.

The paper in the background with all kinds of letters

is from my paper stash. I used the cut of on the inside

of the card.

Wow, I am a winner with my card!

Thank you.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes

This week my oldest grandson goes to group 3.

In the netherlands this is the group where children

start to learn to read and write.

A great occasion for a card!

I made this card with:

Michael Strong's free digital apple image

sentiment by Tim Holtz

the letters from a strip die stenciled alphabet

(sizzix)

vial labels Tim Holtz idea-ology

Background is sprayed and embossed 

wih children's hands embossing folder

at thetle sticky red pearls on the apples and text

I enter my card for the anything goes

challenge on the 

Simon Says Stamp

Wednesday Blog.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Back to school again

I just couldn't resist making another notebook

matching the post-it holder like I did the other day.

You have seen the post-it note holder and instructions HERE.

All stamps and papers are Stampin'Up!

and I enter this for the

Monday and Wednesday challenge on 

the Simon Says Stamp challenge blogs.

Here a close up of the sentiment and the pens.

These are colored with zig markers and on top

glossy accent to make them look even more

like real pens.

Inside peek.

PS. no special template. Just measured the inside 

notebook and made a cover around it with 0.25"

extra and 0.25" extra as the spine.

Decorate to your own liking!

Back of the notebook.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Back to School 2

Today I created this back to school set with

Club Scrap papers and Ivy League digital images for:

where there is also a Back to school challenge on the

Monday Blog of Simon Says Stamp.

I made this notebook cover with the library

image and sentiment from the Club Scrap hybrid kit.

The boy and mother is a figure from a bag of

paper dolls by Tim Holtz.

Here a peek inside the notebook.

This is the back of the notebook

with another paper doll and a sentiment

from Club Scrap (Oct 2010 Scholarship).

I colored the image with zig markers 

and a watercolor brush.

Also I made another  post-it holder

and I made one before. You find the instructions HERE.

This is the back of the post it holder.

It is blank to leave a message.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday scrap page: 1st schoolday

I think this page does not need much explanation!

Yes, it is my first grandson going to school. He looks so big

now and very confident. While I write this, he already finished

his first school week and he absolutely loved it!

I made this page with Club Scrap papers from various kits.

The apple you see here is a digital stamp by Michael Strong

and you can find this as a freebie on his blog HERE.

The crayons I had left over from making the frame for

for a picture shoot for the first day.

Made some fun pictures in the garden.

Suddenly owen is starting to draw and he quickly gets

the hang of drawing puppets and his name, He is going to

do well at school, I am sure. Go Owen, go!

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday scrap page: 1st schoolday

I think this page does not need much explanation!

Yes, it is my first grandson going to school. He looks so big

now and very confident. While I write this, he already finished

his first school week and he absolutely loved it!

I made this page with Club Scrap papers from various kits.

The apple you see here is a digital stamp by Michael Strong

and you can find this as a freebie on his blog HERE.

The crayons I had left over from making the frame for

for a picture shoot for the first day.

Made some fun pictures in the garden.

Suddenly owen is starting to draw and he quickly gets

the hang of drawing puppets and his name, He is going to

do well at school, I am sure. Go Owen, go!

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap August Team Challenge: Back to school

Welcome to another fun challenge and blog hop of the

Artist Team from Club Scrap.

Yes it is that time of the year again and the kids go back to school.

Some moms I am sure are very happy that school starts again.

I noticed a fun video on Facebook about it the other day!

I hope you have arrived here from 

Pam's Blog

and seen her great ideas with going back to school projects.

As you know I live in The Netherlands and we do not have 

special traditions around going back to school.

But through Facebook, I see these fun things people do in 

America, like a picture when their kids go back to school.

So.... I had the following idea: Owen, my eldest grandson - ag 4 - 

is going to school on  Monday August 29 and I wanted 

one of these pictures with him in a frame.

Idea for project #1 was born: make a school frame.

So I started out with making a wooden frame and painted it 

with black gesso.

Then I found this picture on internet and looked through all 

my Club Scrap papers and printed thes on red, blue, yellow,

orange, and green...well the main colors. And I had this:

a lot of crayons nearly ready to go on the frame.

With an oval punch and black paper, I finished the crayons.

Now the were ready to add to the frame with the fantastic

Club Scrap bookbinding glue.

So here are the crayons glued to the frame and I added 

Owens name to it with an alphabeth that is from the Fizz kit 2010.

Wonderful childlike lettering and also looking like written on a 

blackboard stamped with Club Scrap white inkpad.

Translation from the Dutch: 

Owen's 1st school day in Elementry School 2016.

No picture yet for the first day will be Monday.

Watch my facebook then!!

So what else did I came up with:

Made some card and a fun pencil (inspired by pinterest).

Owen loves choclate, so a roll of Dutch chocolate and some paper

makes this fun and delicious pencil.

No template, just went along with the

rol of chocolate. So if you want to make one too,

you have to adjust to the rol and make as you go.

Translation of the Dutch:

Have a lot of fun at school xx Oma

For one card, I started with embossing black paper

with a number embossingfolder and white ink.

Here the finished card with the letters of the Fizz alphabet

and punched out stars (for sure Owen is going to shine in school).

And for the next card I used a drawing of Owen

scanned and resized for this card and added smaller crayons..

Here you see the inside of the czrd.

Then I showed this card to Owen and he said:

Oma, I don't like that you did this and he got to work:

Made some drawings on black paper and said:

now you can add the crayons and in a jiffy we had a

bunch of cards. 

So these were my ideas, but there are more, like hop 

over to 

Jennifers Blog

and see what she has come up with.

If you happen to loose your way, go back to the

Club Scrap Blog, 

where you find all the blog addresses.

Thank you for looking

and hope all your (grand)kids have a great and creative year!