Dressing Up

When my girls were growing up, the best games seemed to involve dressing up and video cameras.  Oh, the imagination that flowed on those afternoons! And they are still the favourites when we go to watch family videos.  The best gift I ever gave my kids was a big box full of costumes and princess dresses and funny hats.

For my Birthday Stamper's Dozen class, I wanted a birthday card that could be used for little boys or little girls, because different customers have differing family composition.  I came up with a sentiment, colour scheme and layout that could be used for both cards and then the customer just had to change the main images to make them for a boy or a girl.

Here's the girls card:

The sentiment is from Bring on the Cake stamp set, which is indispensable if you are making a lot of birthday cards, having a wide range of sentiments.  With the stamp I used here, you can colour in the appropriate age and circle the right ending (st, nd, rd or th).  The images are from the Dress Up stamp set and the colours are very primary, bright and cheerful.  The purse is stamped in Daffodil Delight, then hand snipped and mounted with Dimensionals.  

The layout for the card came from a card by Sam Post that I pinned on Pinterest and reproduced for the boy's card:

Isn't this Lego Card so cute!  And fun to make as well.  With Stamper's Dozen, I wanted to keep the cards simple enough to complete 12 of them in the 3 hour time frame, so I figured the fewer of those little circles, punched with the 3/8" Circle punch, for the Lego Blocks the better.  They have to be glued individually onto the "lego blocks", which is fiddly and time consuming. Then the blocks have to be sponged with the same coloured ink.  Most customers made only 1 or 2 of these and for the other 1 or 2, they used the girl pattern.

Before I leave you, I want to remind you of two events:

1. The first is the fundraiser for Dominican Feed the Kids.  I am hosting it a Westside Alliance Church, 2011 Daimler Street, right across from Constable Neil Bruce Middle School.  It's on Saturday, April 27 from 10 am until 2 pm.  The fee is $20, $10 of which goes to the Charity.  Any orders placed that day, I will donate my profit of 20% of the cost to this ministry as well.  There will be Make and Takes, Door Prizes, Games, Demos, and snacks as well as access to my non-consumables for your own paper crafting projects.  Register here before April 30.

    

      2. The Mother's Day Weekend Mini Creative Escape! Register on your own or let me know and I could        

            help you register.

Stamps: Bring On the Cake (w121899; c121958); Dress Up (w127317; c127319)
Paper: Pacific Point (111350), Daffodil Delight (119683), Real Red (102482) and Whisper White (100730) card stock
Ink: StazOn Jet Black (101406); Classic Stampin' Pads in Real Red (126949), Pacific Point (126951), Daffodil Delight (126944)
Accessories: Rhinestone Basic Jewels (119246)
Tools: Chevron Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (127749), Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (117335), Paper Snips (103579)     

Fund Raisers

I am doing a short program by proxy tonight, with a group who wants to pay it forward!  I told them about Stampin' Up's support of Ronald McDonald House, a home away from home for families battling serious disease and injury.  They were excited to make cards that can be sent to Ronald McDonald house for the families and children staying there.  I'm not able to be there because I already had a class scheduled for tonight, but it was the only night the group was able to do this program and I know Ronald McDonald House is eager to get the cards.

Stampin' Up has a dedicated stamp set called Moving Forward.

Three dollars from the sale of each stamp set goes to Ronald McDonald House Charities, so this was the stamp set I chose to use to design two cards and create kits so that the ladies could craft the cards to send.
Here are my designs:

I love the bright In Colours for 2012-14 used here, Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green and Midnight Muse.  These designs are not difficult but create really nice up-beat cards.  I hope they will be able to complete the cards without my guidance.  I will be coaching the program leader in how to do them.

I am also in the process of planning another fund raiser in April.  This one has been on my heart for months and I have finally been able to set a date for it.  It will be held on Saturday, April 27, from 10 am until 2 pm. For now the location is my home, but I am hoping to have to relocate because of large numbers.

The charity I am fund raising for is Dominican Feed the Kids, run by a couple who formerly lived in my area, but are now living full time in the Dominican Republic, one of the poorest areas on earth.

After vacationing in the Dominican for several years, they felt called to minister to the people they had grown to love and their hearts were broken by the desperate needs.  Donna and Bill Reimer created Dominican Feed the Kids ministry!  Click on the link to learn more about it!

I am planning a day of fun: Make and Takes; Games; Demonstrations; Goodies and the use of my non-consumable equipment to work on your own projects. $10 of the $20 admission fee will go to Dominican Feed the Kids and 20% of all orders placed will be added to that.  Please come out and make this the success Dominican Feed the Kids deserves!