Gardener's helper

I promised I would share some photos of some of Daisy's makes from when she stayed with us earlier this week. She adores crafting and makes a bee line for my studio whenever she arrives at ours. 

She also loves pottering around in my garden and "helping" with the watering of my pots.

 She loves finding out about nature and was fascinated to see 2 large spiders in their webs in my garden.

Like me and her Mummy she genuinely loves spiders and called this one Mr Skinny Legs. We watched him repair his web.

So when it came to her first crafty make she wanted to make something with Mr Skinny legs on. I do have a stamp with a spider but remembered I also had a great die so she helped me for the first time do some die cutting which she found magical. There are lots of photos as I like to keep these posts as a record of Daisy's crafting so that she can look back at them when she is older.

For the first time she also wanted to use my stencils. Everything she made was chosen and place by her.

She added other colours through the rose stencil as she thought the underneath looked like grass.

She then added her die cuts including Mr Skinny legs the spider.

her 2nd piece was made from a left over acorn stamp in my bag

but first she wanted to do some more stencilling...... all I did was tape them down, she did all the rest

Daisy then decided she wanted to give it googly eyes..which led on to her 3rd idea...she wanted to make a bus the same as the one I keep her pens in.

so this is what she did...she asked me to draw window in pencil as a guide and then out came her pens...

I can't believe how dexterous she is.... I struggle with these eye and she stuck every set on herself.

So her are her 3 finished pieces.

Mr Skinny Legs

Mr Acorn

The bus

She proudly took them home to Mummy and Daddy. It is so lovely crafting with Daisy and she really has a genuine love for getting inky. Long may it last. So my card challenge entry today had to feature spiders web too and is the first of my Halloween tags I have made. The stamps are Tim Holtz as is the Ornate frame. The webs are Memory Box and the pumpkins Spellbinders. 

I used distress inks and stencils to make the background and lots of textures on the pumpkin with crackle paste. 

I would like to enter my tag into the following challenges;

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Creative Inspirations 2/3 anything goes
Crafty cardmakers autumn
Sweet stampin 1/3 autumn
Deep Ocean goodbye summer
That's crafty 1/3 autumn
Frilly and funkie show us your stamps
Mixed media world anything goes

Enjoy the weekend ahead, we have friends visiting today and the rain we had yesterday seems to have dried upand a good day is forecast. Tomorrow I will be getting inky and perhaps even painty in my studio. Thanks so much for visiting me today.

Back tomorrow as unbelievably it is the last day of September today. 

Bye for now,

Jane x