Calling all kids…!
Hi everyone! I’m back for another blog week — and I’m hoping to make this one extra FUN, especially for all the KIDS out there!
Usually we show a project or two first, and then give you the weekly challenge — but I thought it would be easier if I told you the challenge first this time. Here it is: I am challenging you to gather up some fun stamping supplies and share them with a kid — of any age. Have them stamp something using at least one Hero Arts stamp, then post it on the Hero Arts Flickr Group by Sunday, July 13th at 11:59 PM PST and tag it with the word “kids”. Be sure to include the age group in the description:
- 5 and younger
- 6-12
- 13 and older
A winner from each age group will receive a $25 shopping spree and the 2008 Catalog! It’s okay for you to help the younger stampers — just add a note so we know who did what. Can’t wait to see what the kids come up with! If you don’t have kids, or your kids don’t want to stamp, maybe you can “borrow” a friend’s! Neighbors, nephews, nieces, grandkids — the list goes on!
Over the week you’ll get to meet all of my talented young helpers. To help me start things off, here’s my friend Nora and her daughter Dominique! Dominique always has a big smile on her face.
She had LOTS of fun stamping the Big Owl and playing with GLITTER
Nora had fun too — that’s her “disco owl” on the right
Nora used to live a few blocks over from me, but now she lives in Canada. So, I had to join the glitter + owl fun long distance. Miss you two.
I made this card for my sister Chris since today is her birthday. SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS! Love ya!
Here’s a watch-in-a-minute video with lots of glitter tips — including how to get it back in the jar. (Please excuse my voice, I am recovering from a nasty evil cold.)
I love making cards where a part of it hangs off the edge. I made the card base a little smaller so that it still fits in an envelope. Love that Big Owl. Love that glue pen + glitter, too!
Supplies:
- Big Owl
- Clear Design Cupcakes
- Fine Point Glue Pen
- Prisma Glitter
- Summer Art Flowers
- Teal, Orange Gemstones
- Lemon, Pool, Cantaloupe notecards
- Other: colored pencils (Prismacolor) Note: I did not use Gamsol — just pencils. (See Shari’s technique article for more on Gamsol.)
I just know that Nora and Dominique would love to hear from you. You can leave them a comment in French or English — Dominique speaks both!
À demain,
Wendy W (wowzer98)
It looks like someone is a future stamper addict. Love the sparkley owls.
Anne Gaal
Lisa - I love glitter! Thanks for the video about glitter today. Sorry that you have an evil nasty cold! Hope you feel better sooooooooon!
Candy
I would LOVE to get my daughter in on this but unfortunately, she’s at camp all week. Oh well, maybe next time!
I definitely love to see all the things kids come up with.
They are so amazing!
fiona
That is certainly a different challenge. Wonder if my kids would be interested, I’m sure if I had more great HA stamps to choose from they would. No harm in asking them I guess.
jenink
That is so funny Samantha! Your little boy wants to crapbook! LOL- Hopefully not an editoral comment on your layouts.
Nora and Dominique
Thanks everyone for all of the friendly comments! Dominique and I have a great time stamping together. It’s something that we can both do on a lazy Saturday morning , after supper in that sleepy time before bedtime stories, on rainy days when colours and sparkles liven up the afternoon,or as a creative wake-up exercise after breakfast just before we head out to do some chores. Dominique says that stamping is easy and fun! She likes to stamp in many colours on all sorts of paper, but she prefers to stamp on pink paper or with pink ink. She likes all colours of glitter and when she runs out of paper she will happily put glitter and stamps on her hands , feet ,face and all over me too of course!
Laurie Helgason
I love all the glitter on Dominiques hands.
I use coffee filters when using colored glitter. The white glitter is kept in a square plastic continer, just like the clear emossing powder.
Karen from MI
I don’t know about this week’s challenge——sounds like my dd is ready to “fire the big cannon” at me for always sharing too much “info” with all of you. She has the scrapbook page she created of us in our BIKINIS ready to submit!!!! Sounds like you better come up with some NEW RULES FAST (for my sake as well as yours)!!
Looks like there are going to be a TON of submissions this week and from what I’ve seen so far, there are quite a few good, young stampers out there!
Jackie M.
My 5 year old granddaughter loves to get into my stuff too!. We made bookmarks for her newly purchased books today, but my camera was dead. Maybe tomorrow.
lisa said: July 8th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Hi Karen in MI — you are funny! Kids do the darndest things, don’t they? Ha ha!
I agree, there’s some great young stampers out there! YAY!