In time out over the holidays

Probably my most important Christmas project this year was the creation of some special cards for my kids' teachers and daycare staff. These men & women work so hard that I really wanted their cards to be extra special. With that in mind, I chose a set of images that I purchased from Mo's Digital Pencil Too and an idea that I scrap-lifted from one of Mo's faithful followers (whose name I unfortunately can't find so I can't give her credit).

I took all four images from Mo's Time Out set and merged them in Adobe Photoshop. This made for a long card so I ended up hand-making the envelopes as well. Both teachers are at the same school so I although the colouring of the images are similar, the cards themselves are very different in colour and paper. As usual all my colouring is done with Copics (including the brown ribbon on the first card - it started out as white) and the papers are from Basic Grey.

For the daycare I made a more elaborate card since it was being shared among a group of people. Instead of merging the images, I printed them off separately and made an accordian card with one image per panel. I decided to add one line of the song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" on each panel because the words really go well with the "Time Out" images.

In making this card I was absolutely thrilled to find a metal slider/buckle with the words "Time Out" engraved (you can see it on the first panel). How perfect! Otherwise the embellishments are made with scrap paper, a bit of cord and ribbon.

Well, that's it for today. Hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas break.

Challenges:

All Sorts Challenge - anything goes

By the Cute and Girly - children

Christmas Cards All Year - Santa image or word (see final panel of last card)

Digital Tuesday - anything goes

Papertake Weekly - be thankful (thanks for hard work of teachers & daycare)

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Creative Belli Challenge - Christmas

Winter Wonderland - thank you (thanks for hard work of teachers & daycare)

Stamping Vacation - embellish with a buckle or slider

Top Tip Tuesday - get embellishing

Little Red Wagon - leftovers (the buckle/slider is leftover from an old embellishment pack; the borders on card #3 are all scraps)

Anything Goes Challenge - "C" is for "Christmas" and "Children"