WOYWW/School Craft Fair Projects/ATC's & Picture Boards

Kid's Craft Fair Projects 

These ATC's were made with torn up paper napkins layered and sprinkled with twinklets.

The flowers are from Tattered Florals die and the Bigkick.

My "workdesk" is still is still the art building in town but I officially moved out over the weekend.  Next time I link up, you will all have to see the true chaotic mess my own craft area can be!!!
STamping Ground What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday

So the kids have been doing crafts in stages. They have several ATC's ready to finalize as well as some other projects. I put one together as an example but they will put their own spin on these at a craft table in Sept.during our 250th celebration of our town.  Let's hope they can squeeze in some craft time between climbing rock walls, bouncing with the bungee hanging with friends.   This ATC is linked to the Make It Monday 
party, create and share!! Check out all the great papercrafts for more inspiration.

Picture Boards

These are ready to hang on a child's wall or playroom. My blogger friend MaryAnne at Scrappy Gifts 
has a canvas board version of these for sale. She does such a beautiful job I wanted to the older kids to make some for their craft fair.  (We brought the cost down by using foamboard that had to be cut)  We had a good time especially with the beach boards.  We filled the little bottles with Popham Beach Maine sand and some small beach findings. There is still alot of work to do before December!!!

Bottlecap Decorating (Minishadow boxes) as a Kid's Craft

 

 It was a hit!! 

The kids art group really enjoyed this craft.

Stamping Ground is hosting:

        What is on Your Workdesk Wednesday
My "desk" moved to an art studio in town for a few weeks so the kids to do some summer crafting. This messy project is now cleaned up and ready for the next step.

If you want to see a close-up of the little nests and how to build them inside the bottlecaps, see the post below this one...those are my favorite. We used moss and Glossy Accents.

 Mini sandollars, river rocks, sea glass and lots of microbeads and glitter!  They chose some great color schemes. 

These were all sealed with glaze and will become pushpins or magnets as we gear up for our December craft fair.  
This project is also linked to Mama Pea Pod's blog for the 
       Back to School Bloghop

Altered Library Catalog Cards/Bottle Caps as Mini- Shadow Boxes

 Altered Library Cards

Using my Tattered Florals Dies by Tim Holtz, Glimmer Mist and inking, I was able to create several types of flowers for our local library to use on their projects to sell at the Artisan Guild show this December. 

 

Some parts of the inner flower I curled while still wet.

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Altered Bottle Caps to Create Mini Shadow Boxes

To Celebrate our town's 250th anniversary, our school has decided to have our first craft fair.  We are taking some time this summer to bring groups of kids together at one of the art center buildings. I started playing around with some bottlecaps and came up with this adorable nest with some beads I had on hand

To have the kids recreate some nests I needed more beads but could NOT find the right robin's egg blue.  So, I painted some old wooden beads from a broken necklace.






Check out the results.  They did a great job....soooo
adorable.

We keep adding findings with Glossy Accents... tiny shells, seaglass, northern Maine river rocks we collected a few years ago, glitter, Aleen's snow and Twinklets.  To create a scene, just trace a quarter then cut out the circle. 

These will all become magnets or pushpins using E6000 (without the kids, it's too smelly!) for the bulletin boards they are creating!!

I will be better at keeping up with the pictures, I know I haven't posted in a while. Summer is crazy!!! Stay tuned for more of the kids crafts!!!

"Stamped Background" Challenge

This is my page for Stamped Background Challenge at Scrapbook Sisters:

 I stamped leaves and stems on the pink background paper with the same green that is in the girls pink shirts. I cut out stamped flower images and placed them directly over the matching stamped flower image on the background paper to create the dimension.   I added a pre-made scrolled butterfly and bling to the flower centers.

The tag is vellum with a stamped image.


I had two of these pictures so I made one for each of the girl's scrapbooks. This time used my leaf/branch die along with the same stamped cut out flowers. I also stamped the upper left corner with a very pale pink. It was pretty simple as I didn't alter the leaf branches like it did in my last post's scrapbook page. I hope to inspire someone who would like to use their stamps more like I need to do.

Paper Flower Layers with Branches Scrapbook Page/Text and Tulle Challenge/Flowers Challenge

 Here is my favorite scrapbook lay-out from the crops I went to this spring.

I used my Sizzix Flower Layers and Sizzlits Branch w/Leaves dies in the BigKick to create this page. The flowers are layered with some lace backing the largest flower.


I then dotted the Glossy Accents to adhere the Twinklets Diamond Dust to give sparkle to the flowers and some branches.

I found a wonderful new blog with new challenges at Scrapbook Sisters:

The above project and the scrapbook page below  is linked to Scrap it Girl May Flowers challenge.

The 3 pinwheel flowers are made from pink lace then centered with layered, punched out flowers and a brad. The large flower is a 12inch piece of lace that I dyed with perfect pearls before making the flower.


Text and Tulle Challenge at City Crafter 

This is a special lay-out for me. I wore this flower girl dress for my Aunt's wedding when I was 4.  The tulle and flowers are part of the vail but this is the last of the tulle.   I made other pages of  my older daughter in this dress and 2 other projects. I guess I have really cherished the outfit and wanted it's story to be told.

Paper Flowers/Scrappy Gifts

During our April vacation, my girls played with my new Tattered Flowers (Tim Holtz) die. They embossed a few, inked them and one is sprayed with Tattered Angels Glimmermist. They did a great job, I love the layers.

These flowers are minicupcake paper flowers. The link is a u-tube tutorial. I used two colors of glimmermist but they are so big, I'm not sure I would use them in my projects. They were fun to tinker with though.

If you are looking to purchase some unique scrappy gifts, MaryAnne has some wonderful products like "explosive" scrappy boxes for pictures and scrappy canvases for the wall along with many other great ideas. Thanks for featuring my special Psalms page MaryAnne!

Psalms 139 Faithbook Page/Handmade Flowers

Psalms 139: 13-16 is the opening page for my first Faithbook. The theme, You Are Who You are For a Reason, continues throughout the book with every page. My last blog post (in Feb.) shows the inspiration and some ideas for completing an 8x8 book.

My inspiration for these awesome paper flowers came from Lisa at What A Beautiful Mess. I honestly have been referring to her flowers and flourishes for a while because they are so AWESOME! These pink flowers were stamped, cut out, and sprayed with water to crinkle up. After drying I inked and painted with Glossy Accents which also holds the jewels in the center. Metallic gold edges the flowers

The little gold metal flowers are ornament tops flattened with a jewel placed in the center. I then handcut a few leafy vines from patterned paper to surround the yellow glittered flourishes.

This finishes my first complete Faithbook. I hope it was an inspiration to you.

I have linked this project to :

For the month of April, this project will be a "Guest Post" for

Faithbooking "You Are Who You Are For A Reason"

I finally had a chance to check out several Faithbooks created by a Creative Memories consultant friend of mine. I have used verses and quotes in the past within my pages but I have never designed an entire scrapbook specifically for the sake of the inspirational message. The book is designed around the quotes instead of the pictures. This makes it really fun to match up any picture you feel coordinates with the quote for that page.

You start with a smaller book, I used an 8x8, and one pack of pages if you are using the Creative Memories book.

There are several quotes, books or messages you can design your Faithbook around. Here are the directions to the one I just recently finished.

The first page is for centering Psalm 139:13-16 with some special embellishments. I chose not to include a picture on this page.

Then there are 21 lines therefore, 21 pages... not including your first page with Psalm 139:13-16.

The first full lay-out starts the 20 lines of quotes. It works out perfectly as the backside of the last page, number 21, is for the author's name with another picture of your choice.

Here are the 20 lines. See below for my examples of how to incorporate them into the lay-outs.

You are who you are for a reason

You're part of an intricate plan

You're a precious and perfect unique design

Called "God's special woman or man"

You look like you look for a reason

Our god made no mistake

He knit you together within the womb

You're just what He wanted to make!

The parents you had were the ones He chose

And no matter how you feel

They were custom designed with Gods plan in mind

And they bear the Master's seal

No, that trauma you faced was not easy

And God wept that it hurt you so

But it was allowed to shape our heart

So that into His likeness you'd grow

You are who you are for a reason

You've been formed by the Master's rod

You are who you are beloved,

Because there is a God!

by Russell Kelfer

Here are a few examples:

I kept the pages simple and didn't do any "wallpapering". I didn't want to take away from the point of the book. This lay-out above has pre-made frames but none of other pics had matting. Simple.

The last page

This scrapbook is for my 10yr old. I'm in the process of starting another for my 8yr old using a different message. I will share it with you hopefully by Easter.

Another idea for you...Max Lucado has a children's book, "Just in Case You Ever Wonder", this concept could be created on. It starts out "Long long ago, God made a decision"..."He made the decision to make you". What a special little book that would make.

This post also made it over to the Creative Scrapbooking Divas blog. It will be February's Special Guest Post in their Faithbooking link of their blog. Thank you so much Luisa for posting this for all the Diva's!!