A dear friend, Justine (YT: Justine Stone) has asked folks to alter some notebooks and make some bookmarks to be donated to a wonderful charity called Camp Kangaroo. This is a day camp for young people who are dealing with the loss of loved ones, and the camp helps them through grief counseling, emotional support, art therapy, and journaling.
I wanted to create some light-hearted, fun pieces for the kids so I decided to try creating Minions and Angry Birds journals and bookmarks. I used 12″ x 18″ fun foam sheets by Creatology (I found mine at Michaels and used a 50% off coupon for the 12 pack) to cover composition books that I picked up at the Dollar Tree. I also used the thin fun foam that they sell at the Dollar Tree for the yellow beak and light blue overalls. I didn’t follow a pattern or anything. I just doodled out the various simple shapes that make up these cartoon characters with a black Sharpie marker (it was no accident that I picked these very simply drawn characters–LOL) and hand fussy cut them out. I made sure to also color the edges of the pieces with the black Sharpie so that the edges of the fun foam wouldn’t show.
For a little added fun, I added large Darice googly eyes to the Minion notebook (found at Joann’s) and small googly eyes for the Minion bookmark (bought at the Dollar Tree). To get perfect circular goggles for the Minion I used two of the circle dies from the Diemond Dies Die-Normous Stack-Ems Circle Nesting Die Set that fit exactly around the googly eyes and cut 6 black foam rings so that each goggle would have a nice thickness and dimension. To add the details of the Minions logo on the overalls pocket and the stitching on the overalls, I just used Sharpie markers to doodle them on–easy peasy!
For the Angry Bird bookmark, I basically took two strips of card stock and glued them together for the base. Then the face was just doodled on pieces on scraps of black, white and yellow card stock with a Sharpie and glued on. The Minions one, takes a little more work, and if you want a more detailed video tutorial for the Minions bookmark, you can find that in one of my old videos: HERE.
The following is a share and tutorial video (demonstrating how to cover the notebooks with the fun foam):
These notebooks and bookmarks are being entered into the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Just Keep on Creating Anything Goes Challenge
Fab ‘n’ Funky Things with Wings Challenge – Angry Bird notebook and bookmark
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Anything Goes Challenge
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Challenge
Craft Your Passion Anything Goes Challenge
Addicted to Stamps and More Anything Goes Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Trio-Tastic Challenge – Minions Notebook is made with 3 colors of fun foam: yellow, black and blue
Creatalicious Anything Goes with Optional Add a Sentiment Challenge
Very cute Kristina! I recently helped my youngest granddaughter make a minion card with googly eyes for her Dad on father’s Day,we had such fun making it together 🙂
Oh wonderful! Yes, I am hopeful that these notebooks will bring a smile to the children’s faces. TFStopping by! Hugs, Kristina
Are project and idea …thank you for your tutorial video and for joining us at Craft Your Passion challenge
Zeljka DT xo
Awww thanks so much Zeljka! It really is a passion of mine to use my crafting to support good causes. I’m glad you liked the tutorial video too! Big hugs, Kristina
What fab projects, thanks for the visdeo.
So pleased you linked up at ATSM. 🙂
Thanks so very much Julie! I’m glad you thought the video was helpful too. 🙂 TFStopping by! Hugs, Kristina
Such a sweet card. Love the design. Thank you for sharing your talents with us over at Creatalicious. Hugs Nina
Thanks so very much Nina! These notebooks and bookmarks were really fun to make for the children. 🙂
First, let me say, what a wonderful gift for young ones in need, sounds like a wonderful camp! These certainly caught my attention right away, so bold and bright! I think the children will love these!! Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge! hugs, Maura
Thank you so much Maura! I love crafting for good causes and certainly the children who attend this camp could use some cheer. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave such a kind and encouraging comment! Big hugs, Kristina
Wonderful idea. Love these books. Thanks for playing along with us this week at Craft Your Passion. Hope to see you again soon.
Lynn aka Lynnpenguin, CYP DT
Thanks so much Lynn! I really had fun making these journals. I hope the children who receive them enjoy them. 🙂
Love these cards – my son would love them! – thanks so much for joining us over at the Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenge Blog.
Awww thanks so much Kris! I hope the children who receive these cards love them as much as I enjoyed creating them for them. 🙂
perfect!!! A wonderful creation !!!
Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at
Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Hugs Cicci
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Awww thanks so much Cicci! They were a lot of fun to craft for the kids!
A wonderful project!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes with optional use a sentiment” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
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(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
Thanks for your sweet comment Melanie! Hugs, Kristina