Cartwheels In My Mind

Weekly Challenge: "Sweet Memories"

Memories can be sweet. Call me crazy, but there's a certain flavor that fills my mouth, when I think of a memory from childhood. When I think of drive-in movies, I taste popcorn. When I think of middle school dances, I taste Kool-aid. When I think of college exams, I taste pancakes.

Creative Challenge: Create an art piece that helps show the many flavors of your childhood.

Creative Prompts (use 'em if you need 'em!):
1. Fill a glass jar with your favorite flavors from your childhood to use as design element in your home.
2. Create a greeting card using food items as prompts for a witty greeting. (ex. Using a graphic of a strawberry to show someone how "berry-happy" you are that they're in your life.)
3. Create a photo collage of sweets foods relating to the days of the week. (ex. Mints for Mondays, Twizzlers for Tuesday, etc.)
4. Give someone a kiss and create a scrapbook layout describing what memory taste you experienced at that moment.

Here's Jennifer's take on the challenge:

For this challenge, I decided to use my favourite wedding picture.. which we look so young in by the way! hee! Can't believe how time flies! This was taken 10 years ago.. and when I think of this day, I think of the wonderful sweet smells and sights of spring.. sweet memories indeed! We got married on April 22nd.. and in Canada, it can still be quite chilly then.. but it was such a gorgeous day! The sun was shining, the air was crisp.. the promise of summer everywhere you looked. To represent this, I used a handmade fabric flower (reminds me of my bouquet and the flowers all around), feathers and a bird charm.. safety pinned onto the flower along with a crystal gem. In the black frame, I placed the cream Jenni Bowlin butterfly rub on onto plain white carstock, trimmed it and then framed it. This little collage brings back all of the memories of our wedding day! ..such wonderful sweet memories! 

 

-Maria Grace

Type Love 06.

Font:  Parfait Script

The curves!  The curls!  The swooshes!  I love everything about this font, most especially its feminine sweetness.  I'd seriously love to receive a love letter with this font.  It's that swoon-worthy. :)

Type Love 05.

Font: Dominique from Canada Type.

The curves are what make this font for me. Bold, whimsical, adorable. And every time I see it, I always think, "I can eat up this font. Simply yummy!"

-Maria*Grace

One Last Hurrah...Studio Calico.

We just wanted to share one last bit of inspiration from our design team using the new Documentary Collection from Studio Calico to send you into the weekend. 

Don't forget to share your own projects and check out what other readers have shared in our flickr gallery. And if you hurry and leave a comment on the art shoppe interview article we did of April (owner of Studio Calico) you still have a chance to win this entire collection yourself!

And now for the inspiration:

Christy: When I saw this adorable Documentary collection from Studio Calico, I knew I needed to make a set of cards for a stationary gift set. They go together so well! I used the die cut stickers, journaling cards, rub-ons, and patterned papers. Super fun! Anyhow, join in the fun and create some cards of your own.

Rebekah: oh my goodness! i love LOVE the Studio Calico Documentary line! i'll be stocking up for sure. love everything about it...the style, the colors, the rub-ons, the letter stickers. Yum!

i created a quick little organizational project...a dry erase board! i used up some thick chipboard i've been hanging onto and cut it to my desired shape. then i traced it onto my Studio Calico patterned paper, cut it and adhered it to the chipboard shape. next, add a little fun color with the SC rub-ons and letter stickers. finally, I covered the top with simple clear self-adhesive vinyl. you can find it at most local discount stores! with the clear vinyl, WHAAALAAA!, i can now use dry erase markers on it for an easy little message board! i finished it off by punching a few holes in the top with an ice pick and then tying ribbon on it to hang! LOVE IT! it was SO easy to make...seriously, like 30 minutes max! imagine the possibilities! 

Maria Grace: Arrows! Polka dots! Fabric! Awesomeness!! Studio Calico's Documentary Line is fantastically versatile, colorful, and just plain cool. I saw the the pattern paper of arrows and thought to myself, "That's the good stuff." In this layout, I used two separate papers form the collection, some lovely fabric strips, label and letter stickers, and my personal fave the rub-on camera. I'm really digging the retro look and love the whole set!

Nora: "I love those hot air balloon rub-ons (& the rest of Studio Calico's great designs) and thought it was symbolic of how I've been feeling since graduating from college in May...like I am floating...but "Soaring" seemed to make a better title. Okay so don't pay attention to typos or super messy sewing...when you allow yourself to truly enjoy making stuff perfection has to be ignored. Even though it annoys me now that I forgot a word or that my sewing machine went awry in the long term I'll just be happy with it."

Cheryl:  For me this challenge was all about the SC fabric strips...I love that they are self-adhesive...makes the artwork so much easier when you don't have to pick everything back up to glue it once you get it in the position you like. :)

The earrings are simply buttons with a little bit of cotton on top (to make them rounder on top) covered with the fabric and then sewn together in the back underneath the earring pieces. The blue pearls are Jolees.

For this framed flower bouquet I placed 2 fabric strips back to back so that when I was twisting the fabric around to make the flowers the 2 different sides would show through. Patterned Papers are Sassafrass (red), Chatterbox (brown) and October Afternoon (blue) and brads are SEI.

We'd like to thank Sudio Calico so much for sponsoring the team this week...we loved working with your new line!

xo, The Cartwheels Girls

Photo Of The Day...June 30, 2010.

(c) Maria Grace Abuzman

I dream of golden summers.

Type Love 04.

Font: Aierbazzi from dafont.com

A peaceful font, an elegant font, a must-have font. Aierbazzi offers an infinite number of designs in a few simple key strokes. Putting pretty in your designs just became that much simpler.

-Maria*Grace