Thursday, August 6, 2015

4CC Challenge #258 - Back to School Card Challenge

It's Back to School Time!  Welcome to this week's 4 Crafty Chick card challenge!  I was asked to be a guest designer for this great group and will be creating four cards for the month of August!  I hope you all decide to play along!  They have some fun stuff planned... and so do I!


If you were ever trying to think of an additional way to use up your old scraps, turn them into book bindings!  This card is 6"x6" and the books are 4.5" long.  I used a corner rounder to make the spin and a circle punch to make the 'interior' of the book.

The apple!  Well the apple is made by layering 10 3" circles on top of each other.  They are glued to each other in the middle and I used a bone folder to fold each one individually.  As I was stacking the circles, I cut the bottom of the circle to flatten the bottom and cut into the top of the circle (like you were going to make a heart) to get the top of the apple.  The edges were inked with green ink and I added a leave and stem.

Everything was adhered to a piece of embossed cardstock for the perfect 'good luck' as you go back to school!

To enter the 4 Crafty Chick's Back to School Challenge, please visit their blog and use the InLinkz button found at the bottom of the page.  The challenge will end August 11th at noon MST.


4 comments:

  1. Lisa, welcome and super excited to have you and your wonderful talent join us this month. Gorgeous card and that apple very nicely done. I like those books, very cool idea. Great post and thanks again for being with us this month. Hugs!

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  2. Lisa- So super excited to have you with us this month! I look forward to seeing all of your amazing creations! Great card for Leanne's challenge! Love that apple!! Great embossing as well! Thanks again for playing with us this month! Hugs!

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  3. Lisa- So super excited to have you with us this month! I look forward to seeing all of your amazing creations! Great card for Leanne's challenge! Love that apple!! Great embossing as well! Thanks again for playing with us this month! Hugs!

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  4. So excited to have you in the henhouse with us Chicks, Lisa! Love your creativity here with the handmade books and the apple! VERY COOL!

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