DIY Stickers for Imaginative Play

DIY Stickers Using Clear Stamps Laura Kelly Designs

Help jumpstart a child’s imagination with a set of my Me and My Peeps Therm-O-Web Clear rubber stamps and a Xyron Create-A-Sticker machine! Have you ever noticed how sometimes it takes both children and adults a few minutes to get their imaginations flowing? I’ve found that sometimes a blank sheet of paper and something to color with can be a little intimidating. But creativity and imaginative play are both so …

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How To Use Stamps for Embroidery Pattern

Stick People Family Embroidery

Use the adorable Me and My Peeps clear stamps that I designed for Therm-Web to create darling embroidery patterns and make hand stitched families. The Me and My Peeps clear stamp set is so versatile. While it can be used for traditional card making and paper crafting, there are so many additional ways to put it to good use. This method of using the stamps on acrylic blocks to create …

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BEST Ways to Use Vinyl Stickers

Best Ways to Use Vinyl Sticker Laura Kelly Designs

Vinyl Stickers are a GREAT way to customize and personalize ALL the things! There is just something about Vinyl Stickers that makes me smile! If you’re like me, you have some favorites that you have been saving for just the right place to put them! I feel like this is kind of like saving an awesome outfit for the perfect day, but then you end up growing out of it, …

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Stamped Family Art with Clear Stamps

Stamped Family Art with Clear Stamps and Watercolor Paint

Create darling PERSONALIZED hand stamped family art with clear stamps and watercolor paints! I really LOVE my new collection of craft products from therm-o-web and am excited to share a fun water color painting technique with clear stamps! To create this darling family art ,I used the Me and My Peeps Set! This would be a great way to make stamped family art holiday gifts for friends. Stamps are a …

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Stamped Tissue Paper Kindness Craft Idea

Spreading kindness through the gift of sprinkles in decorative jars is my jam. These stamped tissue paper decorations are perfect and so easy. I have had so much fun using the two stamp sets that I designed for Therm-O-Web. This project is definitely one of my favorites. It is such a joy to spread happy through the giving of little kindness gifts when I am out and about in the …

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Make Your Own Hand Stamped Clothing Labels

Hand Stamped Clothing Labels

Make Your Own Hand Stamped Clothing Labels This is such a great way to add an extra special touch to handmade items with fabric AND also to clothing. Stamping on cotton canvas fabric is easy peasy. Turning those creations in to labels or patches is also super simple and lots of fun too. Using my Kindness on Purpose stamps from Therm-O-Web, I created a bunch of labels to put inside …

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Dr. Seuss Craft For My Many Colored Days

Learn about colors and feelings with this great literature based art idea for kids. I love ALL of his books but this one is super special.  I have a deep love for colors and creativity and this book inspires me.  Through the use of bouncing rhymes with many colors and animals, this book offers an opportunity for children to start understanding feelings and moods and how to express themselves. So …

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Farm Animal Party Favors with Laura Kelly Dies for Ellison Education and Sizzix

These Farm Animal Party Favors with Laura Kelly Dies for Ellison Education and Sizzix are so darling.  This is my first project using my 2018 farm animal release with Ellison Education and I am in love with the way that they work whether using paper or other materials. The pig!  The pig is so much fun you could go HOG WILD making all the things. The horse!  The horse is great …

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Last Minute Ideas to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

Here are a bunch of last minute ideas to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.  Whether you do them all and make a party or choose one and create a little extra fun, I am guessing your family will appreciate your excitement.  After all, it is a lucky day! To make white candy covered bananas, used white Vanilla Candy melts and drizzle the melted sweetness over a couple of banana slices being …

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Fun with Literature

Bill Martin Jr. is the author of so many fabulous books for kids.  I am in love with his witty rhyming method of teaching basic skills and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is one of his best.  It is about the letters of the alphabet.  I created this fun little activity to simply get young children familiar with how letter work together in the alphabet.  By creating trees with the letters …

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