Congrats, Lydia! You're my hero! Always there for us and always keeping an eye out for the pesky problems. For this quick one, I picked Lydia's Paint Chip Notebook. I love paint chips even tho I didn't use one here. I kept the bright green but added a few more colors. Kept the apple but added the school image.
This could also be called "Lessons I (Re)Learned" and would have gone much faster if I hadn't had to discover them. Like...before you use your water brush on the green pencil cup, wipe the red from the apple off of it. I managed to lift most of the red, but geez, Louise! Oh and coloring white buttons. I do this all the time w/ Sharpies. I did this w/ the red button. Lesson learned? Don't use the heat gun on it. It makes a real pretty metallic-y shine to it, but that wasn't the look I was going for. I felt so stupid! I mean how long does a Sharpie take to dry? 3 seconds? But it seems I have the patience of a gnat. Finally, size does matter. When you use the Cricut to cut out the apple, a 5" apple is not going to fit on a 4.25 wide card.
Ok, so other than that, it's an easy card. All images are DRS Designs. I colored the image w/ markers and cut it out. The big apple and apple cut out were done w/ a Cricut machine. I added the lines bg on the green frame. The sentiment was split up to fit the space and after I die cut the circle out from it, I decided I liked the way it framed the circle so I attached it as is.
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Registered: July 29, 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 41782
Sun, Aug 28, 2011 @ 10:07 AM
Bwahahah - you really did CASE me if you had the patience of a gnat and messed up a few things!! This is gorgeous. What an honor to have one of your beautiful creations as a CASE. Your coloring blows my mind. Thank you so much!
Registered: January 19, 2009 Location: iowa Posts: 37114
Sun, Aug 28, 2011 @ 11:21 AM
Julie I got a good chuckle from your narrative! Sometimes things just don't go as planned! lol Your card is adorable though! Love the primary colors and the buttons! Super case! TFS
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Registered: October 28, 2004 Location: Castro Valley, Ca Posts: 49248
Sun, Aug 28, 2011 @ 11:53 AM
Julie, you made me laugh when reading your description. I can so relate - I have no patience! But by the looks of your card it is in your usual awesome style with the wonderful colors and coloring!
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Registered: April 4, 2008 Location: Sahuarita, Arizona originally from New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 18436
Sun, Aug 28, 2011 @ 12:13 PM
what a fun card.... Love the beautiful colouring of your image even with all the problems you had...it is gorgeous.... love the layout and everything about your card.... great job.... great case.....
Registered: February 24, 2009 Location: New Jersey Posts: 6501
Sun, Aug 28, 2011 @ 12:40 PM
Thanks for all the tips, Julie...I'm sure that most of us learn the hard way as well! Your card is absolutely sweet, the bold colors are fabulous and your school theme is so timely.