Category Archives: Celebration

My grandsons came to spend the night and Jaxson’s first words were – “Can we make a card?”  You can’t say no to that unless supper is burning!  I went to the blog and showed him cards from the Recipe Box to get his creative juices flowing.  He saw the turtle cards I made for their birthdays a couple years ago and he wanted to make a Ninja turtle card.  I have two turtle sets in my Stampin’ Up! stash – ‘Turtle Friends’ and ‘Back On Your Feet’.  My heart soared as he said “I want to make it for my brother, I want to say “Best Brother Ever”.  So I pulled out ‘Family Reunion’, ‘A Grand Kid’, and ‘Skating By’.  Jaxson is seven years old, Emmitt is six.

I cut him a base of real red with a layer of black.

He stamped the boy from ‘Skating By’ (thank goodness for a stamparatus) adding the trophy.

He wanted the turtle on the skate board but facing left.  (your guess is as good as mine as to why).  While I read my own technique sheet on reversing an image, he said he needed to make sewer pipes for the turtles.  (To make the reverse image, you stamp 3 times on a silicon pad using the stamparatus, and then place your card stock on the silicon pad and rub with your chuckie!)  Jaxson followed instructions so well!

What’s a chuckie?

That is a tool, Sal, that we use to rub the image on the stamparatus to get even pressure.

While I fussy cut the turtle image – now in reverse – he colored the boy image and cut out the pipes he had made on copy paper.  Then he wanted the turtle to be riding the skate board.  So he stamped and I cut out a skate board.

Jaxson knew the names and colors of their bandanas, though the markers were drying up and giving him grief:

• Michelangelo – orange
• Raphael – red
• Leonardo – blue
• Donatello – purple

I guided him in using the blue marker to color the back of the stamp that said “Best grandkid ever”, coloring only the ‘best’ and the ‘ever’.  He stamped that and then added ‘brother’, from the Family Reunion stamp set, in the middle.  He stamped the little turtles and colored them and then lastly stamped the big turtle on his back.  Patience was wearing thin as he wanted to be done and Emmitt was growing impatient with playing by himself so as Jaxson stamped the last turtle – he inked it and then—-dropped it on the words!   Panic!   He grabbed a marker and just started coloring over everything.  I reassured him all errors are fixable and removed the right hand layer and the turtle and skateboard and he redid that side and reattached the skateboard and turtle.

Emmitt finally got his card!  Now Jaxson was sad because there wasn’t time for him to make his football card.

I cut a white card base and he stamped a football inside a flourish from the ‘Great Sport’ stamp set so he had something before he ran to play.   They came again this last weekend and he made many cards with his football heroes but he just hand drew what he wanted and didn’t ask to use stamps.  Hmmm…..might have been a bit overwhelming for him to stamp!

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ya think! 

He ‘learned’ to ink and stamp with blocks and the stamparatus, he learned to do a reverse image, he learned to do a partial image by coloring only part of the words and he learned to fix your mistakes.  I was just obliging his wishes for the words he wanted and an image going the other way!

So you want us to feel sorry for you trying to meet his demands?!

I did have to say we didn’t have room for the earpods on a phone image he wanted to add to the turtle.

When Papa got home, he ran to show him the card and the first thing he said was, “Grandma made me do the side all over.”   So I guess I did traumatize him.  I used to encourage redos in classes as well.  I would hurry to cut a new layer when someone messed up their card.  I wanted them to go home with one that they were proud of making.  I don’t want them to drop it in the trashcan when they get home.

I thought your new year’s resolution was to quit being a perfectionist?!

It’s March, it went away with the exercise routine!

Thank you for visiting!  Have a wonderful week.

SAL,  Such Amazing Little ones

Karen

Riddle For The Day:

Q – Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert?

A – Because he was stuffed.