Pez-A-Doodle Wednesday *...kidstyle...*

As you may have already guessed by the title of today's post, today's cards are not brought to you by yours truly, rather, they are handmade by my little ones. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know that my greatest joy in the world is being my children's mother; they truly make me want to be a better person - - and Lord knows I've got room for improvement *wink* I work a lot of hours, and I do spend a significant amount of time at my crafting table. And about once a week my little girl says "when are we ever gonna get to make some cards". So finally last week I told her that we would spend Friday night making cards.

My daughter is almost 5 - just a couple weeks away - and my son will be 7 next month. They still have a tendency to ruin everything they touch - seriously. So I knew I wasn't going to let them play with a $24 stamp set - no way, no how. But you know what they can play with that is not only affordable to replace, but perfect in the variation of fun sentiments: Studio G (you knew that was coming).

So there we sat at the dining room table, just the 3 of us, about 50+ sets of Studio G stamps, Studio G Glitter Glue, Pez-A-Bling, Glittered Skittles, and my scrapbox.

My kids both now know the first rule of cardmaking: always thread your buttons. I am seriously unnerved when I see unthreaded buttons on a card. So after choosing our patterned papers, and ribbon scraps, we chose some buttons and then threaded them.

The only real thing I helped the kids with was putting down the pane of DP - I didn't do it, but I said pick it up, look at it, center it before you lay it down, and much to my surprise - my little girl's came out way better than my son's. That lil' hello stamp is new Studio G Series 32 by the way - they have some great friendship and simple sentiments in that series.

I do like that they both seem to have the symmetrical thing about them - Pez-A-Bling and the Glittered Skittles in the 4-corners, but I also like the Glitter Glue design that only goes down 2 sides, and the uneven amount of Glittered Skittles on the I {heart} Sunshine card.

Before I joined the Pez-A-Doodle team, I had no idea that Studio G had their own line of ink and Glitter Glue - they do all the matching for you; love that!

Look at those Glittered Skittles right there - notice anything? They've got little watermelons in them! They are the perfect watermelon color - and they have a little watermelon in them - perfect for your summer cards. The I {heart} candy and the hugs & kisses stamps are from Series 26 - the holiday one; be sure you aren't ruling out a stamp set because it's labeled for Christmas or Valentine's or something else - - there's always a simple sentiment that you can use for non-holiday cards and when you can find uses for a $1 stamp set all year-round, you are goin' above and beyond in getting your money's worth.

In case you are wondering - the top 2 were made by my son and the bottom 2 were made by my daughter. I don't know if they'll be on the cover of CARDS any time soon, but it sure was fun watching their creative minds at work.

Have a great day, Girls!