In a small book-store in Kaiserswerth I saw some postcard with parts made of colorful pencil shavings and I thought it was a cute idea and I decided to try to make my own version of it. Also every week I am going through Mila school pen case helping to sharpening her pens if necessary ( her teacher keeps telling us parents to help with things like this) and the shavings are fluffy and colorful and it always hurts me a little to just throw it in the bin. Now I don't have to - I create different characters instead.
So here is my test round
The texts is inspired from one of Filip´s favorite book "Catch that plane" When the family is heading to the airport and the text is "as late as late can be" so I made my own version of it
What do you think?
During week 24 I have been working on preparing thank you gifts for kids teachers and friends. I like to give something symbolic which also can be useful. This year I decided to buy water bottles for the teachers and to make them personalized writing their name and some flowers on them. I bought plain smaller bottles at IKEA. With my Cricut i designed and cut it out of permanent vinyl. With adding vinyl on the bottles, they can only be hand-washed otherwise the vinyl will come off. After five years in Germany I have gotten so use to saying Frau Janssen rather then using her first name. So I decided that I will use the last name because that is the only name the kids use. Funny how you get use to something that I from the beginning thought was so stupid and old fashion. When I was playing around with my Cricut I also figured out how to transfer my wine ladies into svg file which is needed so the machine can cut out my illustrations. I did a test with iron on transfer vinyl. I made the
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