Mijts Blog

My current definition of BLISS: R&R in Brisbane – unlimited fresh fruit and vegies; a weekend on the Gold Coast with hockey friends (despite the lack of sleep!); lunching with friends; popping over to the city on the ferry – SHOPS!!; reliable fast internet; a late afternoon round of golf; etc; etc………….

Over the past few weeks I have spent two afternoons a week at a local Primary School making cards with them to sell at their forthcoming fete. I printed some shapes and pre-cut pieces for the younger children to make the following cards:

This simple design using squares was a favourite with the older kids and the parent helpers.

The little kids just loved the santa which I designed in Word using ovals, triangles, circles etc. – and all age groups wanted to do the paper-piecing reindeer!

I also used shapes in word to print onto cardboard some stars, trees and baubles for them to trace and cut out to make these cards:

For the last session with each group I took along all the remainder of my patterned paper and cardstock scraps for them to create their own designs – and they came up with some fantastic creations – unfortunately i have no photos of these as our camera has gone bugger up again!!

When I was cleaning out my papers I found a couple of sheets I bought some time ago in a pastel green with snowflakes on it – and I had triangles etc on the mind from the kids’ cards – and I created this card and made 8 of them using the two sheets of paper, some gold paper, cardstock scraps, some rhinestones etc!
NB: Having to scan to get images at the moment and colours etc not quite true!