I heart stickers

A little while ago I bought a Princess Castle Hello Book as a gift for my daughter from the gorgeous online shop Upon A Fold. It's an activity book where you can create your own princess adventure story with lots of stickers and ideas. I was planning to give it to my daughter for her birthday but the kids were restless one afternoon so I pulled it out for an activity for us all to do together.

And let me tell you how much we ALL LOVED working on it. We all know kids love stickers (as do I!) but this sticker project was so much more creative and fun. At first we took turns creating trees, birds, castles, thrones, cupcakes with the stickers (a great sharing exercise!) and then the kids started getting creative by adding their own drawings as well.

The kids must have spent almost two hours happily working together and now we have a gorgeous keepsake to remind us of our fun afternoon. I'll leave you with a photo of our work taken halfway through the project. What fun!

World Card Making Day

 

I love handmade cards. I love to give them to friends and I love to receive them. There is something so special about receiving a card from somone when you know they've spent precious time making it for you. 

I even love the idea of making cards myself. Everytime I visit a cardmaking site or blog I get so inspired. I even bought some stamps from a friend who is a STAMPIN' UP! demonstrator. But the stamps were never used and have since been sold on ebay (for a good price too!). I now admit I am a lover of cards but not a maker of cards.

Which is why I love the idea of card making kits. Compendium has just released a range of kids card making kits called World of Thanks which we have just added to The Memory Shelf shop. The kit comes with 10 cards and envelopes and lots of stickers to decorate and personalise the cards. Packaged in a gorgeous box they are a fantastic gift idea. They're also made eco-friendly with FSC-Certified materials and printed with soy ink. A great creative project for kids and also great for teaching them the value of saying thanks.

By the way it's World Card Making Day on 2 October so I thought I'd share a few card creations from my friend's blog KM Designs. And if you are a card maker KM Designs runs card making workshops and sells gorgeous STAMPIN' UP! products...

 

Thanks Hallmark!

Well Father's Day was a few weekends ago now and I've finally got around to taking a photo of our Hallmark card. We chose one where you could add a photo to the front and personalise the message. My husband was very impressed with it and has now taken it to work.  

I also had a Grandfather's card made too, which was thoroughly enjoyed as well!

The kids also got very creative (or should I say the teachers!) and made some gorgeous Father's Day gifts at daycare. My son made the tie and photo frame, and my daughter made the card with a lovely poem inside. I've taken a photo of the gifts so I can add them to my digital album. The gifts have gone inside a memory box for the moment. Eventually I'll have to sort through the gifts and decide which ones to keep. But by taking a photo of all the Father's Day and Mother's Day gifts received I now have an online record of these keepsakes, so I won't have to actually keep all of them. That's the idea anyway!

If anyone else had a personlised Hallmark card made please send us a photo. We'd love to share it.