As we enjoy our last week of summer break here in our area of North Texas, I felt it was appropriate to have this week’s theme revolve around back to school designs. The fun and challenging thing about this particular theme is that I don’t actually have a ready supply of images or sentiments to easily work out designs. So this week is all about putting on the creativity hat.
Today, we’re heading to the garage to modify the Trucking Along truck into a school bus. Yep, that’s right. We’re splicing and dicing to lengthen our truck. So let’s talk about how this design comes together.
We get started with a base of Lost Lagoon cardstock. The background panel of our full focal panel is a quarter sheet of Pool Party cardstock. Our mountainous terrain in the background is a piece of Pretty Peacock that has been diecut using the long cloud die from the Bright Skies die set and cutting on an angle to give the look of a hill. Our trees are also diecut from Pretty Peacock with the Frosted Forest evergreen dies.
To make our school bus, we start with a stamped image of the truck from Trucking Along on Crushed Curry cardstock, which is then punched with the coordinating truck punch. I separated the cab from the bed with paper snips and then joined them back together with a small strip of Crushed Curry and filled in the outline with a black pen. Using the cab as a guide for the shape of the back of the bus, I traced and then cut a separate piece of Crushed Curry for the back of the bus. The lights and stop sign are all red iridescent discs. The bus is then adhered over our mountain with dimensionals to help it stand apart.
Our sentiment is another one that I set up in Word and printed on white cardstock with my printer. I used a larger cloud die from the Bright Skies dies to cut it out, along with a few smaller clouds to add behind. A spot of sunshine beams through in Crushed Curry compliments of the sun dies in the Bright Skies set. I finished things off with a hint of shine in the white sequins from the sequins trio.
What do you think? Did our chop shop bus fit the bill? Tomorrow we’re heading back to the drawing board, and I hope you’ll pop by!
Products used in today’s card:
Lost Lagoon, Pool Party, Pretty Peacock, Crushed Curry, Basic White cardstock
Trucking Along stamps & punch
Bright Skies, Frosted Forest dies
Iridescent discs, sequins trio
Dimensionals
Adhesives
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 