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Jaxson Has The ‘Card’ Bug
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!
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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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.
September Swaps and Mystery Card #16-Origami Frame Card
Hello Stamping Friends,
It is almost over- September – and summer – and ….. boo hoo
. NO it is “Woo hoo” – that means fall is here, with its pumpkins and scarecrows and pumpkin spice lattes and …..
. And only 86 days until Christmas! Just sayin……
We will be ready!!
Mystery Card Challenge #16 printable pdf file
It is an Origami Frame Card (also called Shadow Box Technique, Folded Paper Frame, and Origami Window Frame)!
This is the one I created with the specific instructions. I used the wintry 3D embossing folder and since it is made for the mini machine, I just rotated the folder 180 degrees so there were no half embossed images and ran it a second time. I used the Baby Wipe Technique for the greeting from the Frosted Gingerbread stamp set by placing a baby wipe on our largest acrylic block and then drip dropping red and green ink from the reinkers on the baby wipe to create my own mixed color ink ‘pad’. The base is Cinnamon Cider and the DSP is Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP from the mini catalog.
- The 4X4 DSP is folded lightly in half and then opened up and folded lightly in half again to find the middle point, or use a pencil and a ruler to draw diagonal lines from each corner to corner to find the middle, then erase the pencil mark.
- Unfold and fold each corner with its point exactly in the center. Burnish well with your bone folder (1st folds)
- Fold back the corner points to about 1/8″ over the 1st folds and burnish well.
- Place at least two glue dots underneath the frame folds at the very edge of the 1st fold, you want the folds to pop a little at the second fold but be held in place at the first fold. Glue dots were less visible than when I used the mini dimensionals.
There are several different ways to place the frame on your card. In the card above, I used the 3X3 square offset from the frame to make added points to the frame but in this card I placed the 3X3 exactly under the frame for just a border:
I used an extra layer of Old Olive since I was using DSP from the Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP which was a bit busy.
- Old Olive Layer, 4 1/8 X 5 3/8
- DSP Layer, 4 X 5 1/4
- Basic White for stamping the greeting, 2 3/4 X 2 3/4 (I had fun with all the dies in the Gingerbread Dies!)
This next card uses the 3X3 for a border again instead of extra points since the back of the DSP that folds out is the same blue and got lost when I looked at having the extra points with blue on blue. This uses the Back On Your Feet stamp set.
Differences from the original:
- Beauty of The Earth DSP, 4 X 5 1/4
- Cinnamon Cider, 3 3/4 X 5, embossed with Painted Texture 3D embossing folder
- Basic White for stamping the greeting, 2 3/4 X 2 3/4
The Origami Frame would also fit on a card with a horizontal alignment.
Sharon used the 3X3 for extra points and made a stunning card with the Sale A Bration Peaceful Prints DSP, Cherry Cobbler and Basic Black:
Joy’s card uses the Hand Penned DSP and Gorgeous Grape with the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder:
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Ann made two cards in differing colors and two different embossing folders- the Ornate Floral 3D on the left and the Timber 3D on the right:
Thank you for participating in the Mystery Card Challenge and sharing your cards!
We Zoom on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 9:30 to share our swaps and do a Mystery Card Challenge. Hop on by some time, just send your email address to me at [email protected].
Don’t go until you share those swap cards!
Oh dear, I almost did. This was my swap and if you click on the picture you can go to the blog post with all the directions and even a video:
Sharon’s card celebrates the beauty of fall with gorgeous die cut leaves on fall DSP and she used the Autumn Wheelbarrow Dies from last year’s holiday mini, Pierced Blooms Dies, Seasonal Layers Dies, and Autumn Wishes from Close To My Heart.
Jo’s Card uses Stampin’ Up! Reflected In Nature stamps on Thick Basic White with a full panel of brown embossed with the Wood Grain embossing folder. The shiny strip is Stampin’ Up! Rose Specialty Paper:
I wish you could see the sparkle on Joy’s card. She used the Triple Time Stamping Technique with the Stampin’ Up! Daisy Garden and Vine Design stamp sets with a border between her layers of Blackberry Beauty DSP. The little dragonfly is punched in black and then sparkled with the gold!
Ann’s card is a fun Halloween card using Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black. She sponged the edge of the Pumpkin Pie with black for a smoky look. She used Stampin’ Up!’s Frightfully Cute stamp set, the Scalloped Contour Dies, the Frightful Tag Dies, the Cute Halloween DSP, and Black Glitter Paper. The star sequins and black and white gingham ribbon are the perfect embellishment!
Your blog is like a virtual scrapbook of cards!
So true! And for you travelers and out of staters who missed the Mystery card, you can still make one and send me the picture and I can add it to the ‘virtual scrapbook’. I think it really helps everyone see the amazing things we can do with a bit of paper, stamps, tools and ink. An added benefit of our card scrapbook is to go back and see a card that we may have already mailed out but now want to make one like it. Well, here is your place to go to see those past cards. My cards are in the recipe box because they are linked to the full directions but you can always do a search by “swaps” and find the others.
And the ‘scrapbook’ brings a pinch of creativity to spice up their crafting worlds!
Mustn’t forget to say that, Sal, so they see where you come in!
SAL, Share A Love
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