1 Felt Purse, 2 People, 3 Different Ways

*Purse removed for publication in the February/March 2010 issue of Simply Handmade.*

Parker is at a friend's house today and poor Miss Emma is bored, so I got out these felt purses for us to decorate. I snagged these for pennies on clearance awhile ago. I love picking up fun little things on the cheap. Here are the two that I decorated. I used Queen and Company and Buttons and More felt flowers, some Mark Richards pearls and MAMBI gems.

Here is Emma's take on her purse. I am digging it! After I snapped the picture she added felt flowers to the handles. I wish I'd have thought to do that to mine!

You Go Girl!

Miss Emma is the featured artist over at Creative Mini Albums today. They are featuring a mini album she made recently. You can see some additional pictures on an earlier post here or click on the Miss Emma's Creations link on the right for some of her other projects. I can't wait till she's a little older and I can take her to crops! You go Miss Emma!! I have to admit I'm a little jealous - she is getting way more scrap love than I have lately :-)

Daddy Don't Peek!

Emma has discovered my punches! Someone might as well get some use out of them...lol... She is in heaven! She did beg to use the Lime Rickey ducky sticker. I caved :-) She drew glasses on the duck since Daddy wears glasses. I just picked up the EK Success little bugs the other day and the other punches had been collecting dust.

I wanted to share this super cool layout that Claude posted recently. I am on the Scrap Within Reach team with her and I love what she did with her Clear Scraps acrylic page and the Emerson line. You can see it here. And I can't believe she hand cut out all of those butterflies!

Heads up on a cool giveaway: Pam is giving away a bunch of goodies over on her blog. She is super creative so be sure to look around while you are there!

A Bottle of Primas and a box of Glue Dots Later...Here is Miss Emma's 1st Mini Album!

You go girl! She was picked as a Best of the Blogosphere over at Card of the Week!

She was in a creative mood this morning and asked if she could do an album. I picked up a bunch of Colorbok Crayola chipboard albums for $1 at Michael's recently and am trying to tell myself I don't need to hoard! She has been bugging me to make more crafts lately and my room is still in shambles and so I've been stalling. She especially has been asking for the glitter! On this project she did 95 percent of the work herself. I cut the pictures out for her (although she picked out all of the pictures, decided where in the album she wanted them and how I should trim them) and cut and tied the ribbons on for her (although she picked them out). Poor girl can't tie her shoes very well yet, although she's reading at an early 3rd grade level - go figure! She did all of the painting, blinging and decorating. As you can see - she's even wearing some of the paint :-) Maybe I'm just biased, but I think she rocked the mini album...especially for only being 6 years old!

Supplies include:

Chipboard Album: Colorbok Crayloa

Paints: All Plaid, except purple Making Memories

Gems: Darice
Flowers: Prima

ABC Stickers: Doodlebug

Glue Dots

Size: approx 6x6

(click on pictures for a better look - I also included some of her during her creative process. Ignore the disaster in the background!)

Here are a couple others things she made last night on her own. (She gets more done in 2 days, then I've made in weeks...lol) The layout/drawing is for one of her boyfriends, Nathan. She had asked me if she could have a bottle of Primas leaves. I wasn't paying attention and said, sure. Half of them ended up on the layout, but I'm trying to be ok with that :-) I'd had them forever and hadn't used them, so it was a freeing experience! I'm actually hoping I get to keep the layout, as I want to hang it in our scrap room. She also decorated a baby wipe container so that I can hold some of my trinkets. (The polka dotted curtains are what I picked for my scrap room.)

Another Miss Emma Creation - Altered Photo Box

Not too bad for a 6 year old I say! When she draws or does craft things, she has a vision - I"m jealous! She had a bunch of my other products in her sights for the box too, but I was a mean mom and wouldn't let her use my new stuff :-) But don't worry, she has a pretty sweet scrap set up courtesy of Mom. She was so funny because as soon as she got it done, she wanted me to take a picture and post it on the internet. She is meant to be in print someday!

She knew how to use everything - the brads, glue dots, adhered the ribbon etc. The only thing I helped with was poking the holes for the brads, since I wouldn't let her use the piercer. (The red flower didn't photo the best, but it looks cool IRL).

Go Emma!

When Your Mom Has Ample Supplies....

.....you can make your Webkinz a hat! I don't have scrap things to share this week, so I'll share some of Parker and Emma's recent creations. Bones (the Basset) was needing some headwear the other day. Sophie (the leopard) not to be left out...had to have one too. She kept cutting up the glitter foam paper and when each piece wasn't quite right she kept throwing it away...gasp! We attached the plastic cups with some stretchy jewelry string. Of course the hats lasted all of about 10 minutes, because if you keep taking them off and on they fall apart. Emma has made a variety of hats for Sophie and she often sports a hair bow or a Barbie skirt. Poor Parker keeps begging me to make Bones some clothes, but alas I don't sew. Hey grandma????

Miss Emma's Card Creations (She's 5!)

I was upstairs working on some cards when Miss E came up for a looksy. She LOVES my scraproom. Unfortunately with my room being so tiny and I have stuff piled everywhere there isn't much room in there for her to create. She does make stuff from time to time, often involving jewels and my glue dots! If and when we build on, when I get a larger scrap room I want to make sure there is plenty of room for a kids area. She made these cards all by herself. Actually it's one card decorated on each side. She did everything herself, with the exception of stamping. She picked out the stamp and ink, but I stamped it for her where she told me to. Not only does she like to scrap, but she loves to draw. And in my opinion she's pretty darn good at it. I'll have to post some drawings sometime. I can't draw at all, so not sure who she gets it from? She got into some of my good stuff - I tried not to flinch :-)

Products used are: DCWV stickers, Daisy D's Chloe Marie border sticker, Clearsnap ink, Suzie Scallop stamp from Apple Blossom Studio, Paper Studio gems (she's into bling like her mommy!) Card base is from DMD and size is 5x7.


On this side she used Scrapworks Shimmer Shapes and also added some Daisy D's Chloe Marie border sticker and a Paper Studio gem. DMD card base size 5x7.