Hi, it's Maria here with another simple idea for getting your children crafting.
All children, big and small, love to receive presents but sometimes getting them to write thank you notes can be like pulling teeth.
We've come across a way to get the thank you cards out and have a little bit of crafty fun as well. We set aside an afternoon and the girlies design and make some simple cards using pattern paper, card and rubber stamps.
We've found that a *production line* card works best with simple shapes and easy to colour stamps. This year they went for a tri-fold card with a thank you stamp on the widest part.
They love using the cats eye stamps to edge their cards. It's quite glittery in real life be the camera doesn't seem to pick up the Stickles for some reason.
I do believe that they *borrowed* the idea for the ribbon from a card that our lovely Joy sent to me.
We always pop a piccie in as they don't get to see most of the people they are for. This also helps to fill some space and it doesn't seem so daunting when younger children come to do the writing part.
They wrote their thank you message on the left, tied it with ribbon and the job was done. They had fun, got inky and I didn't have to nag. Also, they use up a lot of my scraps so I don't feel guilty about hoarding so much stuff.
Toodle pip
Good Afternoon Everyone!!
Wow I love your ideas on arts and crafts! I used to love art at school, but was never very good at it, but I really enjoy that creative element!
With Valentines Day fast approaching, I guess this would be the perfect time to try and be experiment with crafts! I have also discovered an alternative way than buying cards in shops (if like me, you art skills look like a two year olds efforts) then this could be a solution!
I have found a new way to send greetings, and this all down to my lovely friend Alice. She sent me an e-Card for Christmas, (she was in New Zealand over the festive season) and I thought it was such a cool way to send greetings, I have now been converted!
I have trawled the internet and have found some really cool sites, but my fav one so far is called http://www.ecards.co.uk I found it really easy to use and the best thing is that it's free! Lots of different themes of cards to choose from, and lots of funny, and cute ones too. There is a great application where you can load your own photos and add them to the card.(This is called Face It) I put one of my mum in there and sent it to her, he said it made her smile. You can load different photos of your friends into different cartoon characters! My favorite one is the cartoon of Elvis dancing!
Just wanted to share my findings with you! Hope you have a good Valentines Day whatever you do!
Kind Regards,
Nicole.
Posted by: Nicole | January 22, 2009 at 05:18 PM
Good Afternoon Everyone!!
Wow I love your ideas on arts and crafts! I used to love art at school, but was never very good at it, but I really enjoy that creative element!
With Valentines Day fast approaching, I guess this would be the perfect time to try and be experiment with crafts! I have also discovered an alternative way than buying cards in shops (if like me, you art skills look like a two year olds efforts) then this could be a solution!
I have found a new way to send greetings, and this all down to my lovely friend Alice. She sent me an e-Card for Christmas, (she was in New Zealand over the festive season) and I thought it was such a cool way to send greetings, I have now been converted!
I have trawled the internet and have found some really cool sites, but my fav one so far is called http://www.ecards.co.uk I found it really easy to use and the best thing is that it's free! Lots of different themes of cards to choose from, and lots of funny, and cute ones too. There is a great application where you can load your own photos and add them to the card.(This is called Face It) I put one of my mum in there and sent it to her, he said it made her smile. You can load different photos of your friends into different cartoon characters! My favorite one is the cartoon of Elvis dancing!
Just wanted to share my findings with you! Hope you have a good Valentines Day whatever you do!
Kind Regards,
Nicole.
Posted by: Nicole | January 22, 2009 at 05:18 PM
Good Afternoon Everyone!!
Wow I love your ideas on arts and crafts! I used to love art at school, but was never very good at it, but I really enjoy that creative element!
With Valentines Day fast approaching, I guess this would be the perfect time to try and be experiment with crafts! I have also discovered an alternative way than buying cards in shops (if like me, you art skills look like a two year olds efforts) then this could be a solution!
I have found a new way to send greetings, and this all down to my lovely friend Alice. She sent me an e-Card for Christmas, (she was in New Zealand over the festive season) and I thought it was such a cool way to send greetings, I have now been converted!
I have trawled the internet and have found some really cool sites, but my fav one so far is called http://www.ecards.co.uk I found it really easy to use and the best thing is that it's free! Lots of different themes of cards to choose from, and lots of funny, and cute ones too. There is a great application where you can load your own photos and add them to the card.(This is called Face It) I put one of my mum in there and sent it to her, he said it made her smile. You can load different photos of your friends into different cartoon characters! My favorite one is the cartoon of Elvis dancing!
Just wanted to share my findings with you! Hope you have a good Valentines Day whatever you do!
Kind Regards,
Nicole.
Posted by: Nicole | January 22, 2009 at 05:18 PM