September Rediscover Hop
Teacher
Good day, fellow crafters. Exploring your crafting materials anew is a thrilling journey, and participating in a "Rediscover Hop" provides an excellent platform to share your creative process with fellow crafting enthusiasts. This month's theme, "Teacher," carries profound meaning as crafting a special card for an educator symbolizes your deep appreciation for their unwavering commitment to fostering education. The Concord & 9th Color Me Happy stamp and die set, characterized by its playful crayon-like design, serves as an ideal choice for crafting this thoughtful greeting. Teachers wield significant influence in molding young minds, making this card a heartfelt and imaginative means to express your gratitude. I trust you'll find my submission both enjoyable and meaningful.
Crafting this card was a delightfully uncomplicated process, yet it brought me immense joy to work with the Concord & 9th set, "Color Me Happy," showcased on the left, to craft my teacher-inspired card. My creative decision revolved around capturing the essence of a vibrant crayon rainbow pack, and for this, I turned to Gina K's inks. Cherry Red, Passionate Pink, Wild Dandelion, Lucky Clover, Tranquil Teal, and Wild Lilac to server as my color palette, and I did my best to match my cardstock shades to these lively hues.
I first used the dies to cut each of the colored crayons, the “paper wrapping”, and the black bands for each of the colors. I then adhered them to a piece of white cardstock in rainbow order. To get the streak of color for each of the crayons I used the edge of the ink pad of the corresponding color of ink that I mentioned above.
Once the ink had dried, I utilized the other half of the Color Me Happy set, featured right, and with a black ink stamped my sentiment.
The next step was assembly. I trimmed the background panel down to its final dimensions and to give this card a bit more visual appeal, adhered it to a black mat with double-sided tape. I then adhered that composite, also with double-sided tape, to a pre-cut and folded A2 white card base. With that I called the card complete.
