Cheyenne's Valentines

In leiu of buying Valentine's for school this year, Cheyenne and I decided to make them ourselves. I have had this printed paper forever, as well as the pink cardstock. And those stickers? I've had them at least 5 years! So it was a very inexpensive to make these!! She stuck down the stickers herself, so a few are a wee bit crooked, but I think she did pretty well!

Kids Christmas swap - By Cheyenne

I entered Cheyenne in a swap for Kids Christmas cards. I think they wanted up to age 12. She had a great time making the cards for this!!! She took two groups so she made two designs. All images are by Stampin' Up, ("Dasher" and "Wandering Words") but supplies are what we had on hand. The sentiment on the twill says "Merry Christmas". I hope all the kids that receive them like them as much as she enjoyed making them!

Last creation (for now) by my daughter

Here is the card she made for her cousin William. He is 10. Inside it says "I think you are sweet". She colored the mouse with my markers. Then she ran the background through an embossing machine. The folder has little bubbles on it. After she did she got upset and said she couldn't "put on the words", so I told her to put them inside instead. She did pretty good I think.

Again, the picture isn't the greatest, because my light source-aka the Sun- seems to be on vacation....again.

Thanks for all the comments on her first card. She is great at creating. I can't tell you how many times I ask her if something looks good or not. I often ask her when I am stuck what a card needs and she will say "A ribbon" or buttons or whatever, and can I tell you, she is right 95% of the time???? She has an eye for color.
The only thing that worries me is.....who's gonna have control of the craft table when she is say 9 or 10? There's no more room in here to add a table that's for sure! Maybe I will have to hit the lottery and get an EXTRA big room to house the craft goodies!

LOL I will have to make her her own blog also!!!!

Another card by my Daughter

This is the card that Cheyenne made for her Aunt Ginnese. We (my brother, mom and I )always tease Ginnese as she loves to wear tie dye. My Brother calls her a "throw back hippie". So she wanted to make a tie dye card for her.

So she made the background, with believe it or not, coffee filters which we watered down some paints, and she painted the filter. After it was dry, we used my new shapes die to cut it out.
Then she made a frame for that with the larger shapes die.

The frog is a stamp I have had forever, and I thought it looked kind of Hippie (a flower frog). As you can see she is still trying to color in the lines, but she didn't do too bad on this one. We stamped the sentiment and she used my oval punch and my SU Scallop punch to punch them out. The second is a close up of the filter. The teal and pinkish-purple are actually kind of glittery, but it doesn't show to well.

We tried to get a good picture, but it is raining today, so my new "light box" trick didn't work so well.

A 5 year old's perspective

My Daughter (who will be 6 in August) has definitely caught the creative bug from me. She loves to draw, and paint, and her new found love is to make cards. She wanted to make cards for her Aunt and cousins in Ohio, that she misses VERY much. She used my embossing machine, and my "Animal Stories" stamp set by Stampin' Up. I let her use my tools today, and helped her just a little with cutting. She chose all of the colors, and decided on the final layout. What do you think?

This one is for her cousin Savanna, who is 13. Now we are going to work on the rest of the cards.....