CardMonkey's Paper Jungle: summer fun fund

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Summer Fund Jar - Day #2 of the School's Out for the Summer Blog Hop

Welcome to DAY #2 of the "School's Out for the Summer" blog hop, hosted by Tina!

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's post with the 3-D paper school bus. It's the last time that bus was running this semester ... now the kids are out and summer's begun!

Here's my project for Day #2:

Have you saved your coins for a Summer Fun Fund? Here's a little project you can start in the beginning of the school year, saving your pocket change in a separate fund just for summer vacation. At the end of the school year, count it up and that's what you'll spend on a special outing for your family. Encourage family participation in the saving, too!

Now if you're lucky, you would have started your summer fun fund in September for the next year -- not like me, who just got this idea in May. So my fund's not that large, but I think it's good enough for a trip with Granddaughter Charlotte to the local beach (at the Jersey shore).

(Pictured here, Charlotte enjoyed beach breezes on the shores of Lake Erie, with her Daddy, Josh, last Tuesday. But like her Dad, she doesn't much like the feeling of sand between her toes!)

So in contemplation of saving enough for a beach day (and to make a project for this Hop), I made a cute savings jar by adding beach-ready cuts to a clean, 16 oz. jar.

I used regular cardstock for this, cutting the images from Cricut's "A Child's Year" cartridge. It didn't take as much work as I thought to get the images to curl and adhere around the jar -- I just used Aleene's Turbo Tack glue for a quick, clear adhesion. But you could use vinyl on your jar instead, if you prefer.

For those who know that "A Child's Year" images are silhouettes, to make these colorful, I simply cut them out four times -- black (for the base), then in red, yellow and blue (primary colors) and pieced as I wished. I Copic-colored a strip of paper in the three primary colors for the band around the lid.