Pre-school

UPDATE:   Well, I never got Alex to cooperate with telling me in his own words about pre-school so I finally gave up and finished off the page with just a list of the class, a close-up shot of Alex, and a header. The header is inspired by the current challenge at Club CK which was to create a banner. For the first section of the banner, I cut a square from the patterned paper ("S") and then cut triangles from some scrap. I didn't have any red alpha stickers so I used my Copic markers to colour white stickers.


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ORIGINAL POST:   Alex "graduated" from pre-school last week. I have a hard time taking this seriously but he & his classmates certainly did look adorable in their best outfits & cardboard caps. Alex was just beaming with pride! After seeing the ceremony (and I use that word with much amusement) I felt motivated to scrapbook the class photo.

The journaling isn't complete as I want to add Alex's actual memories of pre-school and he isn't willing to cooperate yet. As well, I find myself unable to remember most of the kids' names (one of the down-sides of having his sitter drop him off). I will add the names and Alex's journalling to the lined paper at the bottom. The page itself was quite simple to make. I matted the photo in red and then matted half of it in cream (I cut away the cream on the bottom edges so that it wouldn't blend in with the cream lined paper). The embellishments are cut from some of the spare "Teacher's Pet" paper and then adhered with pop-dots. I'm going to do my best to get Alex to write some of his memories down himself so that I can have his actually handwriting on the page.

Recipe:

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  Imaginisce "Teacher's Pet" patterned paper (lined, school-themed squares)
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  October Afternoon "Night Light: Jack" patterned paper (red w. stars & circles)
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  Bazzil cardstock
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  The Pink Elephant Challenge sketch

Challenges:

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  The Crazy Challenge - you're a star (my son IS a star, and the paper has stars on it)
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  One-Stop Craft Challenge - one for the boys (layout of my son, for my son)
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  Simon Says Stamp - PCP group- for the boys

Teachers Rule

Just a quick update to announce that I was chosen as one of the Top 3 for The Crazy Challenge! I'm so thrilled especially since the quality of the other winners was soooo incredible!

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Last day of school today which means a couple of "thank you" cards for Luke's teachers. I chose images from Bugaboo Stampsalong with patterned paper from Imaginesce ("Teacher's Pet" set). If you like these images, check out the Bugaboo site because from Jun 29 until Jul 5 all their images are 50% off!

I coloured the rulers using Copic YR14 then coloured the kids separately and added them on top. You can't really tell in the photos but the two Bugaboo kids are popped up (head & legs popped up from the body and then the entire kid popped up from the ruler) using pop-dots. The sentiment is adapted from a Bugaboo sentiment. I did some manipulating on Adobe Photoshop to allow the rulers to sit within the sentiment.

Anyway, have a great day. And for those of you who also have kids, happy summer vacation!


Challenges:

• ABC Challenge - "X" is for eXtra dimension (the kids are 3D)
• Crafty Catz - let's go digital (the images & sentiments are digital)
• Crazy Challenge - make it in an hour (the colouring was already done but even adding in that time I think these would be under an hour)
• I Did It Creations - 3D (the kids are popped up)
• Digi Doodle Shops Best - anything goes