Hello! Thank you for joining us for the August Get Kids Crafty! blog hop! Our theme this month is back to school! Summer has been awesome and we hope you’ve had lots of time to create some amazing projects with your kids! How about a little giveaway to celebrate the unofficial end of summer?! Lawn Fawn has generously donated a prize package for us to give to one of our lovely followers! How do you win it? Just leave a comment on all the blogs in the hop! The more blogs you comment on the better chance you have of winning! One lucky person will be chosen from all of the blog comments to win the Lawn Fawn prize which includes the Little Fireflies stamp set, Year Eight stamp set, Slow Down and Enjoy stamp set, and the Perfectly Plaid Chill 6x6 paper pack! This giveaway closes in one week on Saturday August 25, 2018 and a winner will be chosen soon after! We also want to know how the theme of “back to school” inspires you? Creating awesome book covers? Making notes to put in lunch boxes? Gifting a handmade project to a teacher? Share your back to school projects with us in our Facebook group or on Instagram with the hashtag #getkidscrafty !
Our theme this month is back to school! Jax is still a couple of years off from starting pre-school, and honestly he doesn't know what school is! Haha! But he does LOVE to read books! So I thought we would make a couple of bookmarks! One for him and one to give away! I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he told me he wanted to sit on the moon! I'll be honest - I laughed! He said it so seriously! I pulled out a Junkiefest exclusive stamp set from Beth Duff Designs called Over the Moon, It's perfect for his wish to sit on the moon!
He used the MISTI to position and stamp all of the images onto watercolor paper and then watercolored them. The first panel he made was so pretty that I couldn't entertain the thought of cutting out the images to put on a bookmark - but he was more than happy to color a second page of images!
I used the Shaker Tag Dies from Craftin Desert Divas with some creative die cutting to make bookmarks longer than the die was intended to cut. I used two of the fancy edges to make the tops of the bookmarks more interesting. Then I stamped and embossed a sentiment and more images all over the bookmarks. I did some Distress Ink smooshing to add some greens and blues (blue is his favorite color!) to the backgrounds and added his painted images on top! Check out the photos below to see a bit of the process!
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