Violin Mojo

 

There is a wonderful sketch at Mojo Monday this week, which is great for me because I needed to get cracking on my Christmas card making.

My daughter has been in the Hobart Youth Orchestra this year.  She has had some wonderful teachers and made some great friends too.  She is even in a string quartet now!  They range from 8 to 11 yrs old and have just starting practicing Christmas Carols and are going to give busking a try.

So I thought it would be great to make some violin Christmas cards to give to all the musical people in her life.

 

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Violin Girl (MFT), Four the Holidays

Card : Cherry, vanilla, lucky limeade, festival of prints dsp, be of good cheer dsp

Ink : memento black, stazon, crumb cake

Other : copics, square punch, vintage faceted button, retired ribbon, big shot, polka dot ef

 

Kathy

Pumpkin Violin

 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a sketch from Mae to inspire us.

 

It was Hobart eisteddfod time again last week and my daughter got second place in her age group.  Yay!!!  She played so beautifully I almost cried!

Anyway I needed to make a Thank You card so I used the sketch and this is what I came up with.

 

 

I decided to use some of my Always dsp that I’ve been hoarding and colour her dress in pumpkin to match.  I’ve had this paper a long time now but I still love it.  It has a bit of a retro feel I think.

Ingredients :

Stamps : Violin Girl (MFT)

Card : choc chip, pumpkin, x-press it, always dsp (ret.)

Ink : memento black

Other : copics, rhinestones, choc chip ribbon (ret.)

 

Mae has given us a great sketch this week.  I hope you’ll try it out and join us at JAI.

 

Kathy

Enchanted Violin

This is the last of my cards for my daughter’s violin teacher.

I found a new sketch challenge site called retrosketches.  I thought this sketch was interesting and I loved the design team samples so I decided to give it a try with my little violin girl.









It was kind of hard for me to cut off part of the image, but I’m actually really happy with how it turned out.
And I am loving the everyday enchantment paper.  I wasn’t going to order more supplies to earn some more of it, but I think I might just have to!


Ingredients :
Stamps : Violin girl (MFT)
Card : pool party, crumb cake, x-press it, everyday enchantment dsp
Ink : memento black
Other : copics, pool party ribbon, pool party brads


Hopefully the teacher likes this set of cards I’ve made for her.  I have also bought her a nice pen and some postage stamps and they will all be in a pretty box for easy storage.


Kathy

Baja violin

This is another violin card I have made for my daughter’s violin teacher.  I have been searching for card challenges and found a great sketch at The Friday Mashup.  This is my first time playing along with them.  It’s a great challenge site where they give you a couple of options.  This week you could do the sketch, mother of pearl technique or a combination of both.  I love doing mother of pearl, but I couldn’t see it working with this stamp and I have to get some more of these cards made.  So I’ve just used their sketch.




I have used a combination of blues, baja and not quite navy.  These are 2 of my favourite colours.  I hope the teacher likes them too!




Ingredients :
Stamps : violin girl (MFT), the nicest things
Card : baja, NQN, white, x-press it, ret. dsp
Ink : memento black stazon, crumb cake,
Other : copics, baja seam binding, big shot, nesties


I think the little violinist is in more of a classical mood this time.


Kathy

Irish Jig

 

This is the first of my cards for my daughter’s violin teacher.

I used the colour challenge at ColourQ for my inspiration.

 

I don’t have Glorious Green so I used Garden Green instead.  Of course I did have to use some skin colours for her face and I also had to make the violin the correct golden brown colour too.

I really like the way this one turned out.    She looks like she’s playing an irish jig to me.

I will just leave the card blank on the inside so that it can be used for any occasion.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : violin girl (MFT)

Card : wasabi, celery, garden green, x-press it, subtles dsp stack

Ink : memento black, stazon, crumb cake, celery

Other : celery button, white gel pen, square punch, white thread

 

Kathy

Violin Birthday

 

After violin lessons this week, my daughter came home a bit upset because it was her teacher’s birthday and we didn’t have anything for her. Her teacher didn’t tell us it was her birthday and it was a big one – 80!  She’s an amazing lady, still teaching kids violin and playing in orchestras herself.

Well anyway, I had only just bought this stamp of a little violin girl.  I thought it would be cute to put on some cards for her at some stage.  I just didn’t realise how soon I’d need them.  I’m so glad I bought her when I did!

This is the birthday card I made for her.

 

I used this week’s sketch at Freshly Made Sketches for my inspiration.  I’ll admit I had a bit of trouble with this sketch at first.  I kept trying to put ribbon where the horizontal line on the sketch is and tried turning the sketch too but I wasn’t happy with it.  But I finally thought to have the sentiment in that spot instead of ribbon and turned it into a square card – and it worked. Yay!

 

I have decided to make my daughter’s teacher a series of cards all using this violin girl stamp but in different colours and designs.  She does appreciate my cards and I think this will be a useful gift. I don’t have time to make many for her though unfortunately. Perhaps I could make her some more during the year?

 

Ingredients :

Stamps :  Violin Girl (MFT), Perfectly Penned

Card : black, textured basic grey, neutral dsp stack, x-press it

Ink : memento black, stazon

Other : rhinestones, nesties, big shot, copics

 

I will post some of the cards I make for her over the next few days.

 

Kathy