Kids Craft Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Kids Blog Hop sponsored by the Purple Scrapbooker! If you have arrived here from Linda at Heavenly Creations, (www.heavenlycreations7.blogspot.com) you are on the right track! If you would like to start the hop from the beginning, see Jen at the Purple Scrapbooker, (www.purplescrapbooker.com).

My daughter, Ava, is so excited to be able to show her work on a "dot com" site, as she likes to say! Ava is only 4 years old but she has a very big personality! Her favorite "art" that she likes to do is paint. We have many pictures displayed around the house of her painting and she loves to go to Joann's and pick out one of those wood photos to paint. Last fall she picked out this huge flower to go in the backyard by her little wooden house. Here is a photo:

I love letting her pick these out as they are fairly inexpensive and she has a ball with them. This one was extra special as we got to see it every day in the backyard until the weather turned cold. She just asked me the other day when we could get it back out.

For this blog hop she has chosen to color in some stamps I have. Her favorite stamps that I own are all the faces by Peach Keen Stamps. She loves stamping faces on everything!! Since we can't really color in faces, I let her choose another stamp set and she chose to color a fairy from a Stampin UP! set and then a little girl with her dolly and her dog from Vivenne and Friends by Peach Keep Stamps. (Too hard to choose just one!)

Here are the two cards we created:
We actually based this card on the current sketch from the latest Tuesday sketch challenge over at Peachy Keen Stamps. We used the Martha Stewart Fringe Shears for the grass and cut out a simple yellow circle for the sun. I thought it came out really cute and Ava knows the PERFECT person to give this to, her Grandma for her birthday.

For this set, Ava used my Big Shot to cut out the Scallop Squares for the base and then picked her own construction paper in pink for the layer. She loves this fairy from Stampin UP! and has decided to give this card to her best friend for her birthday which is coming up soon!

Since she is only 4 she hasn't quite mastered coloring yet, although anyone who receives a card from her doesn't care! They mostly just love getting cards that are handmade from Ava. Isn't that normally how it is anyway? Do we really care how pretty something is when it's handmade? It's the thought that counts!

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed these projects today from Ava. I know she would love to hear your sweet comments on them!

Your next stop is Zeni over at www.scrappyzeni.blogspot.com

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PKS Sketch Challenge

Today I FINALLY got a chance to play with my new Build a Blossom stamp set and corresponding punch from Stampin UP! that I received on Monday. I created this quick card based on the latest Peachy Keen Challenge which is a sketch challenge. I loved this sketch and thought it was such a cute one that I knew I wanted to try it out! I needed to make a card for an upcoming birthday so I thought this the perfect time! Here is the photo of the sketch:

Here is my take:

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Stampin UP! Build a Blossom and Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Stampin UP! Basic Gray, Whisper White, Regal Rose, and Rose Red

Ink: Stampin UP! Regal Rose and Old Olive

Punches: Martha Steward Ribbon Punch, Stampin UP! Scallop Trim Border, Word Window and Blossoms Petal Punch

Sketch 240-A Boy is a Joy!

Hi all! I have been kind of working on this page all week. It finally went from a piece of kraft 12x12 paper and 2 photos sitting on my desk to this. I just had a hard time figuring out what colors I wanted to use. The photos are not that great as you can see from below but the day was just so special. It's the day we found out we were having a boy and went to get the ultrasound. I'll have to do a lot more journaling than what is on here as it was such an emotional day! For some reason I always thought I would have two girls and to find out we were having a boy was such a shock! Not to mention that I have only have a sister, my sister has two girls, and most of my cousins are girls. We had one boy cousin in my family!

Anyway, I finally found the DCWV Celebrations pack at Joann's yesterday after much searching and after going through it I knew I could use that to create this page.

This page is based on this sketch from the Scrapbooking Challenges. They load a new sketch each week and it really helps with keeping me going on scrapbooking.

Here is my take:

Tropical Dreams

Good morning all! This morning I woke up a little early so I thought I would try to accomplish a project for the latest Music Mondays challenge. The theme this time is "Hotel California" and I knew exactly which stamp set to use for this one. I have the Stampin UP! set Tropical Party and thought it would be perfect. Since everyone around me, including myself, is sick of this winter weather we are having here in Chicagoland I thought palm trees and tropical drinks would be the perfect way to forget about the weather for a little while! Every time I think of California I think of beautiful San Diego where my Uncle lives and highway 1 along the coast. I love California and my husband and I always talk about how we should have moved there when we had the opportunity many years ago...sigh.

I also used the same sketch from the MOJO Monday challenge for my card.

I was thinking of giving this card to my husband as a reminder of the vacation we NEED to go on:-). Think he will get the hint?

MOJO Monday Challenge 177

So today I got a very fun package in the mail! All my Stampin UP! product and a background stamp from Market Street Stamps. I had to begin playing with them right away! I wasn't really into doing a full scrapbook page so I thought a nice card would be quick and easy. My Dad hasn't been feeling well lately and I thought he would be the perfect person to make a valentine for. I love to check out the Mojo Monday site for inspiration and this weeks sketch and challenge was so cute.

Here is my take,

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Stampin UP! Valentine Defined, Maket Street Hearts a Plenty Border

Ink: Stampin UP! Real Red

Paper: Stampin UP! Real Red, Whisper White, Red Glimmer Paper, and the pink was out of my scraps

I used some ribbon and sewed together the flower and put a little heart button in the center.