Choosing a theme for April seemed a little daunting, at first, as there are many themes/events for the month. Despite all my options I chose to celebrate Library Week, April 8-14, by creating a bulletin board sized book cover illustration of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree".
This board went up faster than some of my previous designs, as I was able to reuse the current board background and also did not have to remove much of the current border trim. Using various tones of green construction paper I created leaves using an Accucut die machine with a maple leaf die. After cutting several envelopes worth of die cut leaves, I used strips of poster board to make tree branches. The poster board was cut in strips 2 inches wide by about 7 inches long - you can alter the size for your needs.
Technique
Trunk:
- Use 8x12 sheets of brown construction paper.
- Line your pages against one edge of your board and staple in place.
- Overlap pages as necessary.
Branches:
- Staple leaves onto 2x7 poster board strips in 3 layers.
- Trim off the top stems if you wish.
Boy:
- Locate an image of the boy using google image search.
- Print this image at 100% or whatever percentage fills/fits the page.
- After printing, cut out the image and glue to poster board (you can also glue to poster board and cut everything at once).
- To define the boy, color over existing colors with markers or colored pencils.
Apple:
- Accucut die cut in apple shape with red construction paper.
Thoughts or comments? Let me know!
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