WOYWD and Children's Corner Challenge

I haven't played along with Julia's What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday for ages, but I have always loved the idea that there are other crafty folks out there that thrive in pure chaos.  If you read my earlier post you'll see that we're on a road trip, so this photo was taken at a friend's house, where we had a crafty pit stop.  My boys are on the left and my girlfriend's sons (who she prefers not to name on her blog) are on the right.  The boys made cards for the current Children's Challenge Corner, which is to use at least one piece of patterned paper.

WOYWD 

Mr. 11 year old

Ben's card

Mr. 8 year old

21 Bookmarks

Many of you know that I'm in the midst of organizing a big huge move and yes, I'm still crafting. This morning I motivated my son to make 20 bookmarks for his classmates at school, because today is his last day of school. I made the one on the top for his teacher and he made the ones on the bottom for his classmates. He only started school in July, but even in the short 10 weeks that he's been at school he has learned so much. I wanted his teacher to know that she's done a fabulous job of helping build a solid foundation for his reading.

And since I'm about to go through major withdrawl for all these fabulous fun crafty challenges, let's enter this lovely bookmark in the Stampin Royalty "anything but a card" challenge and the Moxie Fab World paper crafts gift challenge. I gave the teacher this card and the bookmark, so I'm actually giving this one (this is a reference to this bookmark which I'm keeping). Ben's bookmark's work well for this month's Children's Challenge Corner to make a bookmark.

Now, I'm getting back to the non-crafting fun... groan.

Materials: PTI All Booked Up, Versacolor Bamboo Ink, Cream cardstock, Fiskars circle punch, Corner round punch, brown twine, green art paper from stash, PTI kraft, Versacolor black ink, Fiskars rotary scallop cutter

bookmarks

I took Jen's advice from my other bookmark post and made a few more to give away as gifts. (Be proud Moxie Fab World I'm actually going to give these paper crafts). I decided to try a few different color themes.

This bookmark uses this week's Play Date Cafe colors.

This bookmark uses the Off the Wall Craftiness colors (Kim-- talk about a lot of pink!!!). And ladies I want you to be proud- I don't own a die cut machine or the great PTI Mat 3 die, so I've just stamped the stamp from the All Booked Up set, cut it out and flipped it over.

And this is Ben's bookmark for the Children's Challenge Corner. I love how he's taken my bits and pieces of stamped items from my craft table and made the bookmark his own special unique item.

Materials: First bookmark, PTI All Booked Up, Versacolor black ink, Fiskars Circle Punch, Stampin Up circle punch, American Crafts red ribbon, green and blue card stock from stash, Stampin Up red card stock, corner rounder punch

Second Bookmark: PTI All Book Up, Studio G pink ink, Studio G grey ink, pink art paper from stash, Karen's digital dandelion poem, ribbon from stash, corner rounder punch, Fiskars circle punch

Ben's bookmark: PTI All Booked Up stamp, Versacolor bamboo ink, PTI On My Couch Additions couch and cat, Studio G pink and grey ink, Stampin Up Baja breeze card stock, PTI cloud, teal ink from Spotlight, Stampin Up red card stock, green card stock scrap, Fiskars circle punch

Children's Challenge Corner

It's pretty obvious that I make a lot of cards, and it'll come to no surprise to other mothers out there that my children like to participate in the card making hobby. My oldest son Ben just turned 5 and he's been making cards for awhile. He is definitely interested in this whole card competition world and is constantly asking me if I've won. So I was thrilled when I stumbled upon the Children's Challenge Corner. Ben was so excited to make his card. He even wanted to take his own photo with his new camera, so I've included both pictures. Such a cutie...

Materials: Kathy Martin digital stamp, Stampin Up designer paper, crayons, yellow card stock, teal card stock