Fingerprint flowers and Butterfly thumbs...a new canvas!

I'm back with another fun little art project that you can do with your kids (or on your own as well).  Its been a little trend in our house lately that the days my daughter is home with me we do some kind of 'art' project.  I call it Homeschooling Art Class 101...lol!  There's so many fun things you can do with a little bit of paint, a blank canvas and a few tiny fingers and thumbs!  Here's what we came up with!

I've created a little step-by-step video tutorial to show you just how easy and FUN this is to do!  Both my daughter and I are very proud of it and think its pretty cool that the flowers and butterflies are made from our finger and thumb prints!  We have lots of homemade paintings with hand and foot prints from the kids but we've yet to do something like this!

 Here's the video! I hope you like it! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!  Have a great week!

Polymer clay....yay!!!

Woo hoo, my first post of 2012! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's! This isn't my typical 'card post', but I had to share some stuff I've been doing with the kids over the holiday break!

So my daughter and I were surfin' You Tube for crafty stuff and we came across a sloo of videos on how to make polymer clay charms. She was SO excited about all the little tiny cakes, icecream cones, dolls, flowers, cupcakes etc...that she asked if we could make some. How could I say no to that sweet little face and a possible shopping trip? We got lots of inspiration from watching Here, Here and Here (for starters)...My favourite blog I've found so far is JOOJOO! Her art is simply amazing! Anyway, this my first attempt at making polymer clay charms...I've dabbled with clay in the past but not to this extent! Its alot of fun!

I've since picked up some tips on how to NOT get fingerprints on your finished piece! My daughter thinks this looks like one of her retro 'Fisher Price' people...
I like the 'unglazed' look better!

So in the middle of taking pictures, Olivia came up and said 'can you take a pic of these ones?'...so here are the ones she chose to post:

She made the Mickey Mouse deco piece and my son made the kleenex box and hamburger...

I have a bunch more but will have to save them for another post. I promised the kids I would dedicate a whole post to their mini masterpieces!

I will be posting some new cards next week! Stay tuned!!! Thanks for stopping by!