Grand kids Summer 2010 cards
Materials: Card stock, Images/Words from stash, Computer”Card Making” program, Scissors, Glue
Summer should be a time of adventure for the grand kids, even if they never leave home.
The front of each card is a back round destination, with a flying car & driver.
The inside is a combination of computer generated greeting, cut out and pasted, along with grand kid appropriate collage elements.
These were quick to make, gathering the images, creating the greetings and cutting them out, then assembling them. Although we made these cards and sent them to the grand kids this is a project that kids, with some guidance could put together themselves.
Anyone who is into scrap booking will have a “stash”, but any one can recycle magazines pictures/images before the go to the recycle center.

                      

“Bling”
Project by Carol Hall inspired by “Gideon Golden Fish”
by Dot Lewallen as seen in the July/August 09 “Cloth Paper Scissors”

Overloaded with forgotten Beanie Babies, this is a large one,  your not sure what to do with, or visit a Thrift Shop to find an animal of your choice for this fun project. Pull out your stash of buttons, beads & glitter! Here again keep cruising the Thrift Shops to find some “Bling” for this project.
Some minor surgery is needed on your animal of choice – open up a seam and add stuffing, in fact pour out the beans, then stuff, odd bits of batting from that last Quilt project works great, until you get a nice firm animal, such as in Plain Bling

Plain “Bling“
Next start with spacing out your larger buttons and Bling in a kinda/sorta symmetrical pattern on the body. Next add your beads and any other sparkles, such as the glitter add to Bling’s spine crest.

“Bling”
This project has no real wrong way to do it, the inspiration piece was completely covered with beads and bling. You can do as much or as little as you want. So have fun, it’s a great way to recycle a beanie baby and bring it out of the 60′s – 70′s into the new age!