DAY FIVE
Welcome to Day 5 of our Blog Party with Coredinations, Sweet Stamp Shop and Petaloo!
This is our final day of the "Back to School" Blog Hop. We have had so much fun playing with all the great papers from Core'dinations and the adorable stamps from Sweet Stamp Shop! We want to thank all the Designers and DT coordinators who filled this week with such amazing projects and stories! We loved every moment...
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It's back to school time, so today I have projects to share with you that you can give to a highschool or college student perhaps. After all they need a little boost about getting back into school, too, right? With all the pretty color card stock from Core'dinations and the coordinating Petaloo Color Match Series flowers I was bound to make something feminine. I altered a note book, and made a goodie bag in the shape of a little backpack. You can put some candy, lip balm, gift card, or special note for that special student.
Core'dinations papers are perfect for embossing and sanding, so both my projects have a little bit or a lot of that. For my notebook cover I adhered the pink card stock to the front, and painted it partially in with some Gesso and covered it in with Pan Pastels. I die cut a few beatiful Cameo cutting files and used them as a stencil to create a little more textured interes on the front and I ended up using the die cut as part of my decoration as well, which went perfect with my pretty Petaloo Color Match Series flowers. I also used a butterfly stencil by Creative Imaginations with the Pan Pastels. It is very subtle, but I think it turned out quite pretty. I just love how altering the pink paper turned out. The pretty doily and the word "note" were also cut out with my Cameo and I added letter stickers to create the word "take". The final touch of course was adding the gorgeous flowers, which completed my note book. And let me just share about the spine of the note book. I embossed my brown Core'dinations cardstock, sanded it off and added some Pan Pastel to it. You can do so much with the Core'dinations papers, as you can see.
My second project is a the little backpack bag. You can find the pattern for it at Splitcoaststampers. Just want to give a shout out to them, in case you would like to recreate something like this. I basically cut out the template using the pretty Core'dinations papers, than embossed it and sanded it off. I love this flower background embossing folder, as it really made my project girlie. Once I put it together I decorated it with all the pretty Petaloo Color Match Series flowers. It's like icing on the cake. I also added some letter stickers to it and pretended that this is my very own little backpack....LOL
Here is a picture of my backpack from the side. As you can see it really looks like a backpack.
Products Used for my projects:
Petaloo Color Match Series Flowers
Camelia x 6 (Coredinations) - In the Pink
Asst.Mini floral x 9 (Coredinations) - In the Pink
Asst.Mini floral x 9 (Coredinations) - Love Potion
Asst.Mini floral x 9 (Coredinations) - Mantis Green
Asst.Mini floral x 9 (Coredinations) - Marine Blue
Asst.Mini floral x 9 (Coredinations) - Tulip Yellow
Hope you enjoyed the inspiration with these projects.
Eva
It was a fun week and I don't have anymore favorite school memories!!
Posted by: Jackie H | 08/31/2012 at 10:08 PM
Great projects I love the back pack
Posted by: corrie wagner | 08/31/2012 at 09:35 PM
Going back to school has never been more fun than this week with all the wonderful projects, inspiration and great products. Such a fantastic job by the Design Teams. Sorry to see the week end it's been so much fun. I always loved the 1st day of school, pictures at the bus stop, new clothes and shoes and a chance to meet up with all your friends. This meant alot when you lived way out in the country and most of your classmates lived in town so you didn't see them as much during the summer
Posted by: Dorina D | 08/31/2012 at 09:29 PM
Great projects. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win. I remember having to goto the office supply store and stocking up on all sorts of the newest click pencils for the new school year.
Posted by: Kim H | 08/31/2012 at 09:15 PM
Very pretty notebook and fun backpack. Another fun school memory is watching Friday night football games with my Dad.
Posted by: Sue D | 08/31/2012 at 07:29 PM
Both of these project are so very cool and so very pretty. They look so expensive and time consuming to make.
Posted by: Smokie | 08/31/2012 at 06:56 PM
Great projects....favorite memory: probably the new clothes. Though when I look back, I was always wearing my new fall clothes on days when it was 85 degrees....not to comfortable, but they were new and pretty!
Posted by: Linda R. | 08/31/2012 at 06:25 PM
I forgot to mention a memory: dances after school in Jr High!! FUN FUN FUN!
Posted by: sharon gullikson | 08/31/2012 at 06:12 PM
That notebook is gorgeous! Such beautiful shaded colors with all of those flowers. And that backpack is adorable, love the embossing.
Posted by: Sue VanDeVusse | 08/31/2012 at 06:11 PM
The colors are incredible on your notebook!! Orange is my FAVORITE color...
Posted by: sharon gullikson | 08/31/2012 at 06:11 PM
Fabulous projects- I adore that backpack- such cool texturing and coloring.
Posted by: Rebecca W | 08/31/2012 at 05:01 PM
Love these projects Eva! That little backpack is just adorable! Doesn't SCS have the best patterns? I just love them :) Love the notebook too - I need to take some lessons from you on pan pastels and embossing with Core'dinations!
Posted by: Becky D | 08/31/2012 at 04:50 PM
Love the colors on the book. So bright and sunny. I'll have to work on a few scraps so it doesn't turn muddy looking. Do you have any advise?
Posted by: LuLu | 08/31/2012 at 04:14 PM
Bothe the book and bag are so cute.
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Posted by: maida | 08/31/2012 at 03:41 PM
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Posted by: maida | 08/31/2012 at 03:27 PM
These are great! I love the techniques you used on the notebook, it looks fabulous! When I was in first grade I got a really cute koala backpack. I just remembered that when I saw that cute paper backpack.
Posted by: Emily D | 08/31/2012 at 01:05 PM
Wow, such stunning projects! What you did with the cardstock is so unique.
Posted by: Romy | 08/31/2012 at 12:33 PM
Both of these styles of notepads are absolutely lovely and functional! What great gifts for teachers and friends. The smaller one would make the perfect stocking stuffer...
Again, thanks for sharing!
Cindi
Posted by: Cindi | 08/31/2012 at 11:09 AM
Wow that notebook is stunning! Love how you brought all the products together, it looks amazing!
Posted by: Miriam Prantner | 08/31/2012 at 09:31 AM
Amazing ! Love this one , thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Julie Shearer | 08/31/2012 at 08:38 AM
Wow these are gorgeous, love the front of that book!
Posted by: Lisa L. ( Lisa's Creative Niche) | 08/31/2012 at 08:26 AM
Wow love these! My daughters and I altered their composition books this year which was fun but not nearly as pretty as this one, and I think that backpack is the most awesome thing I ever saw!
Posted by: Caryn | 08/31/2012 at 08:05 AM
"TAKE NOTE" this has been a great school week on the blog!
Posted by: {vicki} | 08/31/2012 at 07:10 AM
Gorgeous!! Especially that notebook!! LOVE it!
Posted by: Margie Visnick | 08/31/2012 at 04:37 AM
Eva.....what you did with the Coredinations paper is SIMPLY AMAZING!!!
Posted by: LynneF | 08/31/2012 at 03:52 AM