Stamp with Michele

Girl Scout Events coming up but no stamps to match their themes!

I was invited to assist with 2 afternoons in early December for the Girl Scouts.  There are suppose to be 50 attending each day.  I will have 10 at a time to work with.  The problem was that I found out they had a theme & I didn't have any stamp sets that would work for the themes. 

The first days project came to me quite easily.  I ended up using punches.  You can't see it real well but I stamped snow flakes in the background with versamark.  So here it is: 

 

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The 2nd days project I had to play with quite a bit.  I would love to here any comments or ideas if to possibly make it better if you have any.  It also uses snowflakes in the background & I will probably stamp "be merry" on it also where I currently have "joy" stamped.  I think that will be better for the younger kids.  I used some ideas I found from other stampers to assist me with this card. 

                                                 Artwork © Stampin' Up!

4H Project

I was asked a 2 or 3 weeks ago to do a project with 15 girls & boys ranging from 4th grade to high school.  This is for a 4H group in La Porte City, IA.  The chipboard wall hanging seemed to be a hit with the Girl Scouts so I decided to do this same project for this group but changed it to a winter scene. 

These chipboard pieces can be used for so many different projects.  You can make a little brag book or scrapbook, a picture frame, an ornament or even a box with them.  I have put a snowman on the middle piece for this group but wouldn't the childs picture have looked adorable on there?  I just thought of that this weekend so it was too late to contact the leader to have them bring a picture with them.  Oh well, maybe next time. 

Girl Scout Projects

I was approached a couple months ago by a friend to see if I would want to come up with 6 projects to be done in one afternoon following the Girl Scout manual.  The goal would be for them to earn a badge.  One night at opening stamping a couple of my friends (thanks Linda & Sandy) assisted me in coming up with these projects. 

One week ago I stamped with the 7 girl scouts to do 6 projects & the mission was accomplished.  It only took the girls 2 hours.  Good job girls.  I think they really enjoyed themselves. 

The first project was to use an object from nature to ink & stamp.  I picked out leaves that had fallen in my mothers yard & kept them in the refrigerator with a moist paper towel around them in a zip top bag.  We brayed So Saffron ink over the leaf & layed it ink side down on white cardstock.  We then brayered over it with a Spectrum pad.  Another project was to take one of the prints made & make it into something else so we took this paper & added some ribbon & cardstock to make it into a card.

We made a bookmark that I somehow misplaced so it is not in the picture.  We did dry embossing of flowers & hearts on some naturals cardstock to put on a purple base.  We then punched a hole in the top & attached a ribbon on the top.

Stencils were another project.  We made our own stencils from circle punches & then placed them on Night of Navy cardstock & sponged Craft Yo Yo Yellow for the moon & Whisper White for the snowman.  We took the Whisper White stamp pad around on the edges of the Navy cardstock to make it look like a blizzard & then stamped the small snowflakes around on the cardstock.  This was attached to Whisper White cardstock to make a card. 

The most challenging project was the wall hanging.  There are so many possiblities with these.  I tried to keep it very simple for the girls by having them just stamp 3 different leaves in 3 different colors each on a different chipboard coaster.  They sponged the same color around the edges of the chipboard.  We used the Crop-a-dile to put holes in the chipboard & then used grosgrain ribbon and Sticky Strip to attach the pieces together.

The last project was a very simple Christmas card to be used for a service project I believe.  I used this same card for my make & take at my fall expo events this year as it had to be something quick & easy.  They used the background Tres Chic with Lavendar Lace ink on Lavendar Lace cardstock & then used Elegant Eggplant over it for the words "Peaceful Wishes" & the branch.