11 Thursday Feb 2016
Posted in Cards, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Using up scraps
As part of last weekend’s card making festivities I needed to make a card for a little boy called Oliver who is turning six.
I had some spotty paper and some spotty stickers in my “I need to use this or else” spare paper pile đŸ˜‰ Five mins later I had a personalised card for the birthday boy.
Here’s hoping he’ll like to see his name in lights (well, spots!)
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
22 Sunday Nov 2015
Posted in Birthday, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party
My son and his friend are obsessed by Ninjago Lego. So I’ve had to come up with a quick and simple Ninjago birthday card for all those birthday parties!
This is all thanks to the kind folks at http://www.halegrafx.com who have some free downloadable Ninjago eye packs.
I downloaded the 3 and 5 inch sheet, cut out the 5 inch eyes and stuck them on some red cards (my son loves the red ninja but they would work equally well for the other coloured ninjas!).
I have a stash of red wrapping paper – voila, a Ninjago present!
(Ninjago Lego inside of course!!!)
24 Saturday Oct 2015
Hello!
Yesterday I showed you some quick Star Wars themed kids cards I made. Today I want to show you a simple Star Wars themed gift bag for that little Jedi in your life!
I decorated up a gift bag from the $2 shop: 
The picture of the Death Star is sized to fit my 1 3/4 circle punch. The lightsabers are made from the word window and jewellery tag punches.
I’m a little bit in love with this one!!!
Caro x
23 Friday Oct 2015
Posted in 1 3/4 circle, Birthday, Curly label, Jewellery tag, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Masculine, Owl, Word Window
Hello
My 6 year old and all his friends are obsessed with Star Wars at present. There are a couple of Padawan birthdays coming up over next few weeks so I’ve been looking for some quick Star Wars cards to make.
Here they are in order of simplicity!!!
The lightsabers are made with the word window and jewellery punches. The Death Star is a print out sized to fit my 1 3/4 inch circle punch. (I made it for this yoda card I made a few months ago).
The next one is basically the same but with the child’s name in Star Wars font – check out the cool tool at logo54.com/movie/starwars
I’m not sure you can really file the next card under “quick” but it was still pretty easy! And still didn’t take more than 10 minutes.
Darth Vader and Obi Wan are made from the owl punch. Vader’s face is the owl’s vest turned upside down with some black fake pearls for eyes.
I made the cape with the curly label punch turned on its side and trimmed off at the sides:
I hope you enjoyed reading this. And here’s hoping the little Jedis enjoy them too!
Caro
12 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party
Hi
My son had a birthday party today and the theme was “fluoro”. This is the card I came up with by making a background with fluoro textas and then writing the birthday boy’s name in black Sharpie over the top:
Very simple, but he seemed to like it đŸ™‚
I think if I were going to make another one like this I think I’d use a darker background, but this is what Mr 6 picked so we rolled with it!
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
01 Wednesday Jul 2015
Posted in Birthday, Framelits, Gift tags & wrapping, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party
Today I want to share with you the card I made for my son’s birthday. We’ve had Ninjago invitations, Ninjago cupcakes, and Ninjago party stuff – so there’s no way I was going to get away without a Ninjago birthday card!
After being a bit “Ninjago’d out”, I wanted to step it up a notch for the birthday card, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
It took me a little while to figure out how I was going to get the peek-a-boo effect so I’ll show you how I did it.
I used a normal C6 card base and cut a 9 x 13cm piece of yellow for the inside.
I was thinking about just drawing / using circle punches for the eyes on the inside of the card, but had some printable eyes left over from the party (web address in the photo)
First I cut out an eye mask, then traced around the shape onto the front of the card (I recommend you cut two – one to trace around and one that will still be neat to use inside the card)
I then needed to be able to cut out the shape. I thought I would use my big shot with a small die just to cut a hole in the centre of the traced area to be able to start cutting out neatly.
Then inspiration struck! The curvy image from the Banner framelits set worked perfectly to get a “tie” at the edge of the face mask area! So instead of just cutting out some space for starting off my cutting, I shifted it off to the side to get this shape:
Cutting out the rest and voila!
The next step was to grab a Sharpie and trace around the edges to neaten them up – but also to colour in the area marked by the impression of the edge of the die (you can see the faint impression in this next picture)
And the end result!
And of course, no little Ninjago fan’s birthday present could be complete without Ninjago wrapping on his present!
(I dropped the glued eyes on the present, so they are not straight, but I’m pretty sure he won’t mind!)
I think it will be a while before I feel like making Ninjago themed anything again, but the little guy has absolutely loved everything, so it’s all been worth it. I can’t wait to give him his card tomorrow on his actual birthday!
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
23 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted in Kids craft ideas, Kids party
Hi!
A couple of weeks ago I showed you the Ninjago themed invitations my son and I made for his birthday party. His friends loved them and ours has been in pride of place on the fridge ever since.
On the weekend I was looking for ideas for lolly bags and other things for his party. The party is on Saturday and I have approximately zero hours of free time between now and then, so any ideas needed to be quick and easy!
If you google “free Ninjago printables”, you will get lots of options for printing off Ninjago eyes in a range of different sizes. A few minutes today with a printer, some scissors and a glue runner and Ta Da!! I present to you, “white ninja” lolly bags:
Add some mini eyes on white label stickers, and voila! Blue ninja water bottles for each child:
Most glueing and sticking was lovingly done by Mr Soon-to-be-six himself.
My next challenge is Ninjago cupcakes for the party. Stay tuned!
Thanks for reading.
Caro x
08 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in 3D / pop up, Baby cards, Cards, Circle treat cups, General occasion, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas
As you know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, when I’m not feeling well I like to sit on my couch and colour in. Which then leads to a bulk card making session at some future time. Today turned out to be one of those times!
I had to pop into my office and stumbled across a pile of images from the Stampin’ Up! fishing around stamp (now retired) which I’d coloured in and cut out a few months ago, but never got around to making into cards.
I decided they’d look really cute as snow globe cards, so pulled out a few circle treat cups and some glitter and voila!!
A tip for doing this without getting glitter ALL over your desk (just SOME of your desk!) is to fill the cups and stick the image on as a lid, then add extra glue before sticking the cup onto the card.
I stuck the “snow globes” onto 13 x 13 cm square cards. Cutting these (26 x 13cm) from an A4 piece of card stock leaves a nice strip to make an extra 7 x 7 cm notecards at the same time. Here are some of those:
Images used up, next batch of kids’ cards done, sorted!
Thanks for reading đŸ™‚
Caro
07 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted in Bird Builder, Chalk Talk, Dies, Framelits, Invitations, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party, Owl
We’ve spent this afternoon making birthday invitations for my son’s upcoming birthday party. He decided on Ninjago invitations (for those not up with small boys, that is a type of Lego based on ninjas!) His favourite Ninjago is Kai “the red guy”.
I had a grand vision for how these might look, but then had to tone it down to match the vision of the birthday boy. Which is after all the point (allegedly!!)
I was planning on using the top note die to get a nice curve on the yellow mask top and bottom, making the eye brows from the branch of the bird punch as the eye brows, and layering black and white circles from the owl punch for the eyes. However small boy was most insistent that we should draw the eyes and eyebrows ourselves, and it turns out that dropping liquid paper onto the eye balls to make the whites of the eyes is super fun when you’re 5!!
So, here they are in all their glory. Perhaps not as glossy as I’d planned, but made with love by the birthday boy đŸ™‚
Next challenge: Ninjago cup cakes for the big day. Red icing anyone? đŸ˜‰
Thanks for reading.
Caro
Btw I cut the yellow strips with one of the labels from chalk talk framelits. I was very happy with the pretty rounded edges but he decided they should all be chopped off!
25 Thursday Sep 2014
Posted in Cards, Invitations, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party, Owl, Punches, Word Window
Tags
birthday party, clever ideas with punches, Kids cards, kids party, owl builder punch, owl punch, party invitations, punch art, super heroes
Hello!  Sorry it has been such a long time between posts.  Life just gets busy!  In my last post I showed you the card I made for my Frozen obsessed son’s 5th birthday.  I’m pleased to report he loved it đŸ™‚
Today I want to show you the invitations I made for his birthday party. Â He wanted a dress up party, but he (and I!) were going as super heroes, so he wanted to have super hero themed party invitations. Â So here’s what I came up with – super hero owls!
They looked pretty cute all lined up together:
Here’s a closer look at the super heroes, made from the Stampin’ Up! owl builder punch:
 Here are a few pictures of how I put the owls together.  Basically I just used various colours cut from the owl punch, and the yellow belts are made from the word window punch.
Making super owl:
One tip – it’s easier to cut the yellow belt to size from behind:
Making spider owl:
(the black circle is also from the owl builder punch)
Making bat owl:
Put them all together and you get some cute little super heroes!
I have to say I was a little sick of making owls by the end of this process though!
Thanks for reading
Caro x
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