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.....

Kind and Caring Thoughts and taking Photos

So I am TRYING to learn how to take better photos of my craft items, and I found a great tutorial on a Message board that I go to frequently.

For this photo I took two pieces of white cardstock, used masking tape and taped them together on the back. Then I got this handy little easel at a craft store in the school supplies. I set it up in our bay window (much to the cats' dismay). And shot a few pictures. Then I went into my photo editing program and edited it. I think it came out pretty well don't you think?

The watermark is from a freebie download that I was directed to. Unfortunatley it isnt free anymore, but there may be some other easy ones out there to use!

I used my new "Kind And Caring Thoughts" stamp set from Stampin' Up. I also used Stampin' Up's Classic inks. All other items were things I had on hand.

I'm off to help my DD create dome cards! :)

Oops missed one...

Ok Ok I know I said I would stop the brayer cards for a while, but in my defense, this one was sitting aside drying and I forgot to post it!
So this one is using Stampin' Up's "Lovely as a Tree" set. It is a little hard to see in this picture. No sunshine today :( . The sentiment is from the "All Holidays" set from Stampin' Up.
Again I used a multicolor ink pad, and the cardstock and ribbon is from what I had on hand. The white ink is Stampin' Up's Whisper White Craft ink.

My test subjects...

So on Monday I am holding my first card class for Stampin' Up here in my home. And I was a little concerned that I wasn't going to be able to explain the card, so I called on my guinea pigs, aka Cheyenne and David to explain the card and have them make it. They did pretty well! David had a little issue with the border punch but he figured it out (didn't listen to directions!). Cheyenne also did quite well, and then asked me to make another card.

The class is being held here in my home on Monday the 20th from 6 - 7:30. I will be holding one class (for now) a month. If you purchase 9 months, you get one free, please contact me for details - we'd love to have you join us!!!! Leave a comment or email me at GRKIDDO at VERIZON dot NET.

(PS please excuse the mess!)

Merci - Last brayer card...for a little while...

Ok so this will be my last brayer card for awhile....maybe! It is just so much fun playing with it! But I am running out of labels. So I will need to get more. These labels are old, oh about 12 years or so, so the color isn't exactly blending well on it. But I will get some new ones soon!

Ok so anyway, the card...I used a multicolor ink pad. And the Image is from the Baroque Motifs stamp set by Stampin' Up! The sentiment ("merci") is not from Stampin Up. Again the ribbons and cardstock is just stuff I had on hand.