I had some spare time so I made up a few Halloween cards for
Send a Smile 4 Kids. I think these will be quite popular based on my own kids' reactions - they totally tried to snag a card each! I can't imagine anything more boring for a child than being in the hospital so I hope these mazes give them even a couple of minutes of amusement.
I picked up the mazes at the Dollar Store for 4/$1. The images inside the mazes were pretty lame so I used an exacto knife to cut open the maze and then replaced the images with pre-coloured digis from
Doodle Dragon Studio. A little dab of glue sealed the maze back up no problem. For the purple cards I embossed plain cardstock and then lightly ran black ink to pick up the pattern. It gives a nice distressed look and also coordinates well with all the blacks in the patterned papers (from Basic Grey). I used sketches from 2 sources:
I also have to thank
Kimber McGray for the idea of using mazes on cards. I picked up the idea at one of her classes at the Burnaby Crop & Create. Happy Halloween (1 month early) to you all!
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What a fantastic purple card. Great design. The Mazes make your design very unusual! Thanks so much for joining us this week at the Creative Card Crew! I have blog candy available if you are interested!
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Absolutely fun, thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!
ReplyDeleteThese are great cards. A creative way to use a puzzle. Thanks for playing along at Creative Card Crew. Cheers FiLoMa DT
ReplyDeleteTwo awesome cards sweetie. Thank you for joining us at Totally Papercrafts and good luck.
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Such a cute card. Thanks so much for playing along with us over at CCCB!
ReplyDeleteWw these are amazing ... such a clever card with the gift on Many thanks for playing at CCCB
ReplyDeleteGreat cards!! Very unusual and interesting. Thank you for joining us at Creative Card Crew, good luck!
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These are so cute!!! The kids will love these mazes!! Thank you for sharing your fun and cute cards this week at CCCB :-)
ReplyDeletefabulous fun cards,love them. thanks for joining us at heck of a challage.xxx
ReplyDeleteNeat cards Shelley. I love how you used those mazes. You are so toughtful! The kids will love it! Thank you for playing along with us at The Sweet Stop this week.
ReplyDeleteThese are so cool I love that they have a game on each one. The kids will love them
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Very creative...Great job. Thanks so much for joining us at Love to Create Challenges this week. Hope to see you again next week as well. joann sassy raggedy
ReplyDeleteOh these are fabby and defo will be a hit with the kids!! thanks for joining us with our 1st challenge at 'a heck of a challenge xx'
ReplyDeleteYou are so darn clever - use the mazes to showcase the focal images in genius!!!
ReplyDeleteOh these are so cute and I think the kids that receive them are just gonna love them. Thanks for playing along a Card A Day Blog
ReplyDeleteWow, your maze cards rock...these are really cool! Great layouts as well! Thank you for playing along with Creative Card Crew's purple challenge!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful card! Love your design. Thanks so much for playing along with the Creative Card Crew this week!
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