Hello my crafty friends! I am getting messy again today. You know how I love to make my own backgrounds and today I am taking that up a notch! Do you know the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle? That is the book that inspired today's project.
I wanted to play along with the current Lawn Fanatics challenge, a project inspired by a book, movie or song. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of my favorite books. And having just received the new A Bug Deal stamp set from Lawn Fawn an idea began to form. One of the things I love the most about this book and all of Eric Carle's book are the pictures. They are done in an amazing style. He paints backgrounds with free style brush strokes and makes patterns or texture in the paint with found things. Like the back of a paint brush, scratching into the wet paint to create lines. Then he cuts up these painting and makes collages to form the images in his books. This made me think of my Gel Press, and I started out playing to see if I could make Eric Carle inspired prints.
Then I took those prints and die cut them and stamped on them to make the elements for my Very Hungry Caterpillar scene.
I paper pieced the caterpillar, using the Gel Press prints I made, so that he has a red head and a green body. After I glued those on to my caterpillar stamped and die cut from white paper I then colored around him with a yellow marker, as that is how he looks in the book. He also has big eyes, so I used a black liner pen to make his eyes bigger.
I also used some Lawn Fawn dies to make the grass, stump, and cupcake. All die cut from my prints! The sun was die cut with a circle die and the rays are just 1/2" strips. The cupcake had to have a hole in it, to show that the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate his way through one cupcake. In the book the images actually have holes in them just like this.
The sentiment stamped onto the sun is from the Reveal Wheel Circle Sentiments stamp set.
I also made a scene on the inside of the card that is like the ending of the book.
You can watch the making of the prints and this card in my video below. If you have yet to do so make sure you click over to my YouTube channel and subscribe. If you ring the bell next to the subscription box you will get notified each time I post a new video.
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This is so cute!!
Posted by: Gab | March 19, 2020 at 09:52 PM