Thanks for a fun Teaparty Jen. Our cards are going to a school bus driver at the Lake Highlands Elementarty School in Dallas. The kindness of Curtis and his wife brought a bus load of Christmas wishes to lots of children and now we are showing them that kindness matters and we're paying it forward by flooding them with happy mail.
I downloaded a free colouring page of a school bus and coloured it with Copics and pencils. The card base is a Centre Step fold. Instead of bringing the centre forward, I brought the sides forward and recessed the centre portion.
The blackboard was made using black gesso, it dries with a great rough matt finish. I painted a full A4 sheet so I could have some in my stash.
I tried writing with a white crayon but it didn't stand out very well so Plan B was initiated and I went to my stash to retrieve some more blackboard card (yep it was still on top of the pile).
This time I used white Posca 0.7mm paint pen for the small writing and the big writing was done with a white water based Sharpie pen. I highly recommend the 7mm Posca paint pens, they are really dense, write like a normal pen and come in heaps of colours, including metallic.
The sides were covered with dp, the bus was fussy cut and then I scribbled white crayon onto my finger tips and smudged the blackboard. Job done...in record time!
Thank you for looking and I hope you get a chance to send Curtis some happy mail.
Date: Monday, February 4, 2019 GMT Views: 1707
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Sat, Feb 09, 2019 @ 8:12 PM
Wow, Susie! your card for Curtis is so perfect! It's so nice that you personalized it so much and especially that you included Mrs. Jenkins on the personalization! Love, love, this!
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