Grandma and Grandpa Day card

Hello my crafty Friends!

Today's not mine, but my son's card :)

As in Poland Grandma and Grandpa Days are in January - Dom was dealing with his card for them :)

Who said cats and dogs cannot be blue?! Hihihi!

I bet they will love this card!

Sentiment in Polish written by Dom with blue marker: 'For Grandma and Grandpa'.

That's all for today!

Till next post Friends!

Entertaining kids during summer

Hiya peeps!

Possibly entertaining my boy is the hardest thing this summer... not only for me I bet :).

So... we walk, read, go for bus trips, paint, draw, play, watch TV etc....

Our newest pour paint piece (already in Dom's room).

Looks kinda brownish/purple-ish :) Colours used: red, pink, yellow, green and blue...

Below silly drawing/colouring - team work: me and Dom :)

Forgive me please so dark pics... my mobile hardly cooperate when taking photos :)

What you do with your kids this summer?

Till next post Friends!

Pouring paint art

Hiya crafty peeps!

Yesterday late afternoon we were experimenting with my little man.

We saw few nice pieces made with pouring paint techniques and we decided to give it a go.

As per one of tutorials we saw on YouTube, we made simple 'pouring agent' - mix of glue and water and then mix it with acrylic paint - Dom choose green, blue and white.

You can check YouTube for techniques - as there are few - and do as we did - have a messy fun :)

Our painting is still bit wet, but definitely beautiful.

Size of canvas used: 20 x 20 cm.

Today's masterpiece in blue, yellow and white :)

We will make more soon for sure :) 

That's all for today!

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Monoprints, inks and ATCs

Hiya Crafties!

Today something different 😊.  My son is home cause Easter break, so.. Mummy needs to entertain her crafty little man 😊.

I decided to show him how to make monoprints...

We used rather big ceramic tile, acrylics and... soft pastels, so... we actually made mixed media pieces. One piece of his big homework done here :)

Later I was dealing with ATC I planned ages ago... Die-cut some pieces to use as masks, took inks and...

'Mum, can I play with inks too?'

What I supposed to say??? 

 :)

And here my ATC :)

I want to enter my ATC here:

* Blank Page Muse - ATC's

That's all for today!

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Cooperative work - scrapbook

Hello, hello my crafty Friends!

Today scrapbook not card.

Why?

Since few days me and my son both are sitting and working hard on his homework.

Dom is Year 1 pupil and one of options in his new homework matrix was scrapbook about his pet.

So... we were checking and choosing pics, printing, cutting, choosing papers, embellishments, thinking about wordings for each page... Lots of hard work for both of us!

Result?

Below cover and few pages from finished scrapbook.

That's our first scrapbook, so don't be too harsh on us 😊.

Till next post friends! 

Crafting Dom

Hiya my crafty friends!

Today few bits made by my 5yo.
Dom loves drawing, colouring and sticking things together.

In coming week he'll join after school Crafty Club :). Just cannot wait for his new masterpieces :).

Today we were on twins birthday party, Dom made cards for his friends.

This one for Aaron :

Cute Bears from Kinda Cute by Patricia. 

This one for Elliott :

Panda in Mug from Sasayaki Glitter.

Plus he's in artistic mood today and drawing...

Ghost ship - hidden in woods as you can see... lots of mushrooms around :)

Great waves here :)

He's still drawing :). So looks like I need to buy new drawing pad for him and new white cardstock for me ;).

That's all for today! 

Till next post friends! 

Cards for someone special 😊

Hello, hello my crafty Friends!

Today's post will be kinda personal.

Today is my partner's Birthday :).

My little boy and I worked hard to make cards for big Birthday Boy :).

So...

Card for Daddy from Dom - with bears from Kinda Cute by Patricia.

He is soo confident with his colouring :) and I'm sure his Dad will love this card.

Here's my cheeky card with 'Bow adult' from KennyK ;)

Will my man like this one?

Hmm?

Hihihihihi

I want enter my card to:

* CASology - Week 270 Odd

* The Ribbon Girls - October Challenge

* TTCRD - Anything goes 10-9-17

Till next post Friends!

Stone art

Hiya crafty friends!!

Today's post will be about... decorating stones with children :).

Idea came to me through FB group called Northumberland Rocks.

First you decorate pebbles, then you're hiding them somewhere to be found :).

So... today morning we picked some pebbles from our front garden with Dom and decorated them with paints, markers and glitter glue. Dom enjoyed whole process a lot :)

Results:

We were in local park to hide them plus to find artsy stones hidden by others from Northumberland Rocks group. We found few great ones!!!

Below our stone picture made on canvas with using sea glass, beach pebbles, shell and driftwood :)

I'm thinking about framing this one :)

That's all for today peeps!!!

Till next post!

We're painting 🌻

Hello, hello!!!

I was bit busy lately my friends, trying to entertain children in school age is not easy as you already knows 😊.

So... we spent lots of time outside and all crafting had to go aside...

One day last week or maybe 2 weeks ago (not sure really now) I found cute small easel in one of shops and thought: This will be great for showing properly my cards.
It cost next to nothing and had little canvas added to it. I didn't have any specific idea what to do with canvas but...
After we back home my son decided he wants it, so..
I explained him that he needs his brush and paints and you know what? He smiled and said: I want it😊.

I placed piece of paper on his table, canvas on it, gave him brush, bit of water and his paints and results of this you can see below. He called it: Circlsies  (title inspiration from one of children's books we read 😁).

Around the same time I started colouring beautiful image created by Hannah Lynn - still have lots left 😊.

We were on few little trips. I bought few more canvas (bit bigger then this which Dom used), I was curious if he'll use them too. He did, but he prefers smaller scale 😊. My little minimalist 😊.

One of these canvas left, we tried to convince Dom to use it, but he wasn't interested, so I had a go 😊. Little landscape 😊.

What do you think?

Till next post friends!

Dom's crafty mojo

We can say my boy was busy crafting lately. Birthday card for school mate, Thank You cards for teachers, card for girl friend 😊.

'Snorkeling' from Sasayaki Glitter is one of his fave images - card for his friend Skylar 😊.

You can find this image here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/517057310/image-59-snorkeling-digital-stamp-by?ref=shop_home_active_22

Dom picked papers from Cardmaking and Papercraft issue 171 free gift for this card - I think card looks great, but I'm his mum so... you know ;)

Cute lion on the boat I found on pinterest.

Beautifully coloured landed on birthday card for Aiden. Dom had no problems with choosing papers for this one whatsoever 😊.

Funny birdie from Kajsans was his choice for card for one of his teachers Mrs M. who helped him a lot this year.

Dom picked blue and yellow combo for this card :)

I love birdies from Kajsans :) If you want to know more about them check: http://kajsansscrapblog.blogspot.co.uk/.

When I asked Dom what image he wants to colour for Miss B., his answer was fast: doggie. So.. here you have doggie card (image found on pinterest).

Dom wanted doggie in two colours, so I explained him he can use marker in few places on the image and left rest uncoloured, he also added some random letters on tag.

 Dom decided he wants to use floral punches on it (Tracy thanks a lot for your this great gift), so I helped him with it. Choosing papers was easy for this one too 😊.

Sometimes he is soo in rush that papers are 'all over the place', but I love his cards and I'm pretty sure Dom will make many more in future (he coloured 'Walk the Plank' from LOTV already).

What do you think about his cards?

Till next post crafty friends!

Dom is colouring

Today I'll show you something made... not by me :)

As most of you possibly already know (from previous posts) I have 5 years old son Dominik. He loves colouring and card making too.

So... today some of his works :)

His versions of image called: Superhero TV from Sasayaki Glitter: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/536724785/image-68-superhero-tv-sasayaki-glitter?ref=shop_home_active_6.

This cute caterpillar is  from colouring pages I found on pinterest (Dom is huge fan of Spicebush Swollowtail caterpillar ;) ).

Here his Snowy from Conie Fong Art & Design, image you can find here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/265611623/digital-stamp-digi-stamp-snowy-delivery?ref=shop_home_active_71.

This picture is cooperation with his Daddy :). Daddy was drawing and Dom was colouring - talented boys ;)

Here Father's Day card - Dom is kinda addicted to mermaids :) Stamp used here belongs to Mermaid Wishes set - free gift added to issue 171 of Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine.

I love his colouring and I'm happy everytime he join me in colouring/cardmaking challenges.

That's all for today :)

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Cards with cute lizards :)

Cute lizards? - you could ask... Oh yes my friends - cute lizards!

If you are with me for little bit, you saw my cards with images created by Naz from Sasayaki Glitter, so...

Today I have for you card which I made for June Progressive Challenge at Sasayaki's FB group with image called: Dancing Lizards. You can find this image here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/520186476/image-61-dancing-lizards-by-sasayaki?ref=shop_home_active_12

I decided to make simple grey/pink Anniversary card today with only one patterned paper. For layering I used silver mirri card. Image and sentiment I distressed with scissors and shaded lightly with pink pencil, added bow from pink organza ribbon and few lavender gems.

Below my son's creation :)

He decided to join me today :)

As you can see, Dom decided use only one patterned paper for his card, for extra touch he choose piece of pink organza ribbon and some gems in pink and green.

What do you think about our today's cards?

Like them?

Till next post friends!!!

Summer card for boy

Who said cards for boys cannot be cute or colourful?

Honestly lots of cards I saw for men or boys are kinda boring, mostly monochromatic in blue or green or brown, only kiddy cards have more colours if you know what I want to say by that.

I have 2 guys at home, my man and our son and cards for them never were monochromatic, I'm always trying to mix colours on them, yes... true , I'm using blue, but also purple, red, yellow, green :)

Today, birthday boy card with cute image called Birthday Benny created by Connie Fong.

This great image you can find here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/505754595/sale-digital-stamp-digi-stamp-digistamp?ref=shop_home_active_17

Fact I used blue again on my card :) But... decided to play a bit with papers and colours. Only one patterned paper is mainly blue (we  an say baby blue ). All layers I distressed with scissors.

For contrast I stamped sentiment on piece of bright yellow paper, added few yellow gems and little bow from twine.

What do you think about this card?

One more card for you to see today :) 

My son decided join me when I was colouring Benny yesterday and he made a card for his friend's birthday.

He loves bright coloured papers :)

What do you think about his card?

Till next post friends!

Pearls

Hello crafty peeps!

Ladies always loved pearls... that's what I think :) Are you agree with this?

Pearls are soooo vintage :)

So... maybe late, but I finally find a time to colour and make a card with great image called: 'Vintage Tea Cups' from We Are 3 (you can find their digi stamps and papers here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/WeAre3/items).

As a vintage stuff for me is visually connected with old sepia photographs for colouring I choose brown, gold and yellow pencils.

I found some sepia/vintage looking papers in my stash, some ribbons, creamy wooden flower and here you are - my new card!

What do you think? Looks ok?

But...

That's not all I wanted to show you today :) My little boy decided just few minutes before leaving home for school, that he wants to colour this image too and look at this:

Beautiful, isn't it?

Till next post friends!

Girls just want to have fun

Hey Crafties!

Today great Summer image from Sasayaki Glitter called: Snorkeling. 

We both my son and me had fun colouring it, that is sure thing :)

Dom's version:

He loves bold colours and his markers :)

My version:

I prefer pencils :)

I love fish on this image - so great grumpy face :) Green with blue eyes for my son, yellow with hint of green for me :)

For my card I decided to use 2 patterned papers in complementary colours: yellow and blue, also decided to add piece of cut out rope image from other patterned paper I found in my stash and use gems for air bubbles around girl.

I shaded image edges with blue pencil, I also used bit of pencil shading on sentiment (blue on bottom, yellow on top). If you like this wording - check clear stamps from Inkadinkado.

Image used by us today you can find here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/517057310/image-59-snorkeling-digital-stamp-by?ref=shop_home_active_2.

Thanks for reading!!!

Till next post friends!

My crafting boy :)

My son, Dom, will be 5 in May this year. He is artistic soul, I'm sure of it :)

Yes, he loves his blocks, cars, Lego and dinosaurs, but.... also painting, drawing, sticking things together. I'm very proud of him!

His first Christmas card made at nursery when he was around 3 yo.

Drawings on the wall in our living room from about the same time :) We have lots of scribbling like this on pieces of paper, his wooden table or chairs :)

He loves lots of colours on his pictures.

And definitely likes to use my tools :)

Lots of sticking as you can see above and below :)

He started to be more confident with pencils during last year..

Halloween colouring :)

And his colouring for Kit and Clowder challenge :) He didn't like result, but I think is rather good :)

Last week Dom had midterm break - whole week at home with me and Tula, and we can say he was lucky ;) I received crafting magazine which I subscribe since few years. 

Stepper card kit was a free gift with it and honestly you should see Dom's eyes when he saw it!!! Those lights in :)

He was choosing bases for each card, and pieces he'll place on them, I helped just a bit with shaping bases and adding sticky tape, rest was his job! Look:

He made 4 cards and we still have tops/embellishments for another 4 I think, so I need to prepare cards bases for him to have more fun :)

Till next post friends!