Crafting Kid Style!

I just finished a week in the vacation bible school craft classroom with 50 of the coolest kids! It was so much fun.....

Coming at you!

Trying to depict movement can be a little tricky! I tried to stay away from typical baseball-themed colors for this custom card. I also feel I cheated a bit using sticker embellishments for the baseballs, but for the illusion of the ball in motion to work, it became important to have the ball look as realistic as possible.

...and the Finished Card!

From Diagram to Pop-up...

A request for a custom pop-up card of a vintage airplane: First I found images of a triplane (aka Red Baron's plane) from wikipedia, next was a rough out of typing paper, followed by a practice plane to work out the kinks. The final card is yet to come, so look for it soon!

A Haunted room...

I tried a little experiment with this clip art portrait: I cut out the eyes, put green paper behind, added a 'sharpie dot' for pupils, and voila! The optical illusion of the moving eyed portrait...

Arrgh!

Many attempts went in to this card! And I still would have liked to put more into it, but was afraid to make it too busy-looking. Definitely going to try one of these again....

My First Tutorial...

A Do-It-Yourself kit for paper fortune cookies!

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Iris Folding...

The nice thing about iris folding is that it's a bit of a surprise when it's finished! They are taped down and worked from the back side, so even I don't really know for sure what they will look like until the end...

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Attention Starved...

It wasn't enough for this basket to be made from the brightest greens out there - it had to have feathers, too!

Thinking outside the box....

...or should I say card? This bat opens up to be larger than the card itself!

Rushing the Summer...

I thought I might be too early for autumn themes, but this one sold in a couple of hours! Off to work on my 'bat' card for Halloween...

My New Favorite....

This is a custom card. I love the way this one came out - my pictures didn't do it justice!

Personalizing a card....

I offer personalization on almost all my cards. This card is an example of a card I sold without words and then added what the buyer wanted. You can see in the utube video what it looked like before I added 'Happy Birthday'. I've added anything from names to poems to announcements....

Like a Sunset...

These were such bright and cheery colors to work with! I really enjoyed making this one. Total work time: 7 1/2 hours...

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