DeNami Celebrations and 10 Minute Craft Dash

I am popping in with 2 quick cards today. Actually these cards were designed and created by my daughter, Leah, for DeNami's Celebration challenge and 10 Minute Craft Dash.

For the DeNami Design challenge, I told her the theme was celebrations, so I offererd her my Congratulations stamp as a start. She wanted to use pink and blue, and so this card was born.

 

She used Polka Dot Elephant, Small Congratulations, Fairy Princess Chickie, Girl Chickie, and Ballerina Chickie. She colored them in with her Crayola Twistable colored pencils. Not a bad job staying within the lines for a 5 year old if I must say so myself. She did not even use my stamp-a-ma-jig. She said that she needed an even number of pink and blue elephants so that her card would have balance. I nearly fell over with laughter. She also told me that she wanted to stamp the inside of the card, so she chose a heart from petite fours Heart Stamp set.

Here is the second card that she made for 10 Minute Craft Dash which is also teaming up with CAS-ual Fridays. Although I have a bunch of CAS-ual Fridays holiday stamps, she stuck with DeNami stamps since the wood mounted stamps are much easier for her little hands to use. She still had a bit of trouble with the cling and acrylic block, but she managed to the best of her ability. I showed her all of the holiday stamps I had and she made her choice. When I told her that she was going to make a holiday card, she said that it must have baby Jesus and a present since Jesus is a present to us. Oh how I love my little girl!

She decided which stamps would have red, green, yellow and black ink and positioned them by their ink pads. I hit the stopwatch on my phone and she went crazy stamping. I gave her little updates on how much time she had left to complete her card. You can tell which Berry Vines she had left when I told her she only had 2 minutes left. Her strategy to color outside the lines to leave no vine incomplete made me laugh. She completed her card in 9 minutes and 32 seconds. Whew!

Although this card is not technically CAS, we decided to link it up to CAS-ual Fridays any way. Maybe she'll try a little harder to make it CAS next time.
 

I have so much fun when I am crafting with her. It amazes me that she can create cards so quickly.