2010 July 01 » Rainy Day Creations

Summer! How About Crafting With Your Kids?

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True or False? It’s a great time of the year to craft with your kids. True! And to help you get some of those crafty items, Ellen Hutson is having a 10% discount in her store!

How about having some Summer fun and making bookmarks using Basic Grey’s “Max & Whiskers” designer paper. Use the actual paper pad cover, too. The cover is adorable. It shows a sampling of the different paper patterns and is thicker than the paper contained inside. And, the back cover is even thicker than the front. When used together with a couple pieces of the designer papers, you can make a sturdy but not too thick bookmark.

After removing the papers, a narrow strip may need to be cut away from the top of the front cover to eliminate any glue that did not come off with the paper.

On the bookmarks that I made today I used some of the Max & Whiskers “Gummies”. These are coordinating rubber stickers and are so cute.

And get this… I used some Inchies to make a topper for each bookmark. *Shocker* I know!! They were colored with a Copic marker (any kind of marker will do if you prefer that your kids not ruin… er-r-r-r I mean use your Copics). A small hole was punched on each Inchie which was easy to do using a Crop-a-dile, and a couple of twill ribbons were threaded through. By pulling the end threads on the twill, a small fringe was created. Then one of those sweet Gummies was applied to each topper.

Mod Podge was used to adhere the bookmark pieces together while also giving them a protective coating. Martha Stewart’s Alphabet Punch Set supplied some added fun as the words “dog” and “cat” were spelled out and placed onto the wet Mod Podge.

And all those extra little letters can be stored for some future crafty day. The kids will use them. They love to spell things out… especially their names.

A top coat of the Mod Podge was the finishing touch along with two more Gummies on the back side of the bookmarks. So fun!

These will be great for the kids to use, exchange with friends or give to their teachers as gifts. And who knows, maybe it will encourage them to read a good Summer story or two or mark a couple of adventurous science experiments to try.

Yikes!