Get Kids Crafty in December - BLOG HOP

Hello Crafters!

Welcome back to the #GetKidsCrafty blog hop. I am Jeanette Angle from #AcuteStamper. It is starting to finally look a lot like Christmas outside here in Texas.  It is feeling like it too.

It is so much fun for my kids to put up the tree and start decorating. I bought a ornament tag set from My Favorite things for us to use this year. I also got the shaker plastics for the 2-inch circle that fits perfectly in the ornament tags. Then I was silent about this for a few weeks till it was time to mass produce ornaments. HA!

I have 4 kids and I need to be prepared when I offer up die cuts and other art materials to them. I made a huge pile of the ornaments. I purchased 30 of the ornament shaker plastics so that the kids could decorate some for our tree and to send in the mail for family and friends this year.

Most of what was made was scribbled and just a fun Friday night, but then my oldest son Travis wanted to make a camping ornament. We pulled out the Camping with Bear & Bunny stamp set and the Mallow Layers stamp set from Strawberry Jude Stamps: www.strawberryjudestamps.com 🍓

These two sets coordinated perfectly with the December #GetKidsCrafty theme: s’mores. So we lined up everything and started on Travis’ ornament. 

We masked with small post-its, so it was in no way perfect. He was able to take the Prismacolor 005 pen and draw in the missing parts of the images. 

He moved on to picking out sequins for his shaker plastic. Of course he chose a uniform size and color, I tried to sway him, but like his mother... he is firm in his choices. 

With green being the wining color, I moved on to blending out his coloring. I used Distress Ink: Antique Linen with a blending tool. This smoothed our his coloring and we repeated coloring and blending several times until the image was colored to his liking. 

He decided to try blending on his own by dipping the blending tool into the Versafine Onyx Black 🤪. I took this moment to show him my velroed blending foams on the back of each ink... but, he mentioned that I did not yet have one for Versafine, and now I do 😊. 

From here we just assembled, glued and added the NEW twine I ordered last week from www.hemptique.net called Baker’s Twine. I think I need to order all the color options!! 🎁😉🎅🏼

From here we moved on to my ornament. I pulled out another Strawberry Jude Stamps set: Joy to the World.

I love this stamp set. I like to stamp it all over! The Angel Moroni is my favorite. I planned on sending these out for friends and family this Christmas, so I made sure to set up an assembly line in my MISTI. Travis went to hang his ornament on the tree and skipped back over to help me finish mine. 

The assembly line process make the finish product look identical and helps to speed up the process. I saved the negative space from one of the cuts and put it in my MISTI. Then I just had to stamp all the parts out. 

We moved right along with out a hiccup. It was fun to let him take the lead here since there was little room for error. He was proud of himself! 

From there it was similar to Travis’ ornament. Coloring, blending, gluing and adding sequins and twine. 

The finished ornaments were great and are now hanging on the tree! 

Getting kids involved in projects like making ornaments, cards... the possibilities are endless, these moments help build self esteem and confidence. Two very important values children need. There are many ways to help #getkidscrafty. I hope you find a way to join us in the movement!

Keep hopping along. There are seven of us blogging for #getkidscrafty. Make sure to hop to all of them! 

The Frolicking Fairy

Crystal O. Minkler

Acute Stamper -YOU ARE HERE

Faith Dream Create

Fanciful Spaces

Phineas and Mae

Mad Crafter’s Tea Party

Thanks for stopping by! I hope we have more to share soon!