Back to School

 

I have to admit that I did not miss going back to school. The kids here have already been in school since 8 August, and if I were still teaching, then it means I would have been back 1 August (or there abouts). I'm "old fashion" (and hate change to boot), and I think school everywhere should still start the day after Labor Day and end the last week in May.

At any rate, a number of challenges over the past couple of weeks have focused on school, and {Pin}spiration is no exception. The inspiration photo this week is the inside of a classroom complete with desks and chalkboard. So, what choice did I have but to go along with the whole school theme? (Yes, I'm sure that I could have drawn inspiration from the photo to go in other directions, but the Muses have been misbehaving for the past several weeks, so I wasn't going to depend on them to get creative.)

My little girl is an already coloured up image from Cuddly Buddly http://cuddlybuddly.com/) from the School Fairy set. I printed the image three different times so that I could create a 3D effect by popping up different parts. I first cut out my entire image (well, not entire image because as I said, this was from the School "fairy" set, and I really didn't want a fairy, so I took liberty and cut off the wings). I then cut out the head (face and hair) and the hand under her chin and popped that over the base image. I then cut just the face and bangs section from the 3rd image and popped that on top of the previously popped up part so that the head/face is actually three layers. I cut the hand and pencil and popped that over the base as well as her shoes. Both of those elements are only two layers (the base and one raised piece).

I used one of the sketches from this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches (they are offering four different sketches this week) to create the card. My base card is white layered with a DP covered with colourful apples (it is a bit hard to tell those are apples after I covered them with the other elements, but I give you my word they are apples). The other bits of paper used were from my scrap bags. I ran yellow and white baker's twine through the little pencil buttons and tied it into knots before adhering the buttons to my card. Lastly, I added the ribbon and big red bow.

The punch that I used for the yellow scallops is a Fiskar's border punch, and the sentiment is a clear acrylic stamp (SF1113) from Marianne Designs (yes, the same company that makes those beautiful cutting dies).

I am entering this card in:
http://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.ca/ - photo inspiration
http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/ - sketch inspiration
http://useittuesday.blogspot.com/ - All about school
http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.com/ - Back to school
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Power of 3 (I used 3 pencil buttons)
http://createdwithlovechallenges.blogspot.com/ - Use 3 (3 pencil buttons)
http://www.alwayscrafting.blogspot.com/ - Kids