Here are a few of the favorites of the kids taking my Card Construction class at the Lincoln Land College for Kids. The spinner card was actually like the one voted as favorite the year before. But the classes this year were all over as far as their favorite cards. I used a lot of retired stamp sets and inks just in case, but I find the kids are usually very good about handling my things carefully... they just might be a bit more fingerprinty than adults. The kids don't seem to mind getting ink on themselves!
The ladybug card is a modified version of a swap I just got at convention this year. The stamper who made it didn't put her name on it, but I thought it was a great way to make a quick cheerful card.
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At my August Stamp-a-Stack, I planned to do 3 of my favorite convention swaps. While I came home with nearly 100 great cards, I remember seeing this color combination of Baja Breeze and Marina Mist with this flower from the Simply Soft hostess set in one of my friend's stack of swaps. So sorry to say I can't give credit to the original designer of the card. I made a couple of slight changes, but as you can see, her card was just beautiful.
Here's the last of the Christmas in July cards, but you may still see a couple of versions of this card before I came up with the right card. A 99 cent box of paperclips made all the difference.
Here is another batch of favorites. The crimper was a fun tool for the kids to use, and they liked choosing their stamps and coloring the beach scene. The orange card used the shaving cream technique. We waited until the last day to do that one, and it was one of my favorites because of the reactions to each and everyone's piece of glossy cardstock being pulled out of the shaving cream. No two were alike!
