3-D paper town

With the current stay at home situation it can be difficult to find new, different, or interesting things to keep kids busy. I stumbled across a set of printable 3-D house templates and tried them out with our daughter. It was an immediate hit and before I knew it, we were on the way to creating our very own 3-D paper town.

An aerial view of our town with the city on the left and the neighborhood houses on the right.

We don’t actually have a name for our town yet, other than it being referred to as “our town” right now. We started by creating fun modern (dream) homes and slowly added things like a barn for a farm, a hair salon for her Nana, a music studio for her Dad, and most recently a school.

The neighborhood with both modern and traditional style of houses, the Niffler Academy, and the pond at the farm.

toddler crafting :: fabric markers

In continuation of sharing our weekly crafting play dates, here is a project that we did at our house when it was our turn to host a couple of weeks ago.  We bought some fabric markers and let each child decorate a shirt and a tote bag to take home.  And while the kids decorated their gear, the mommies decorated little baby onesies for one of the moms expecting a new addition this spring.

digital scraps :: from this moment

A digital scrapbook layout – my first in a very long time!  Since she’s been born, I have already accumulated a ton of photos of our daughter.  I know this isn’t a traditional scrapbook layout using real paper and glue, but I’m hoping it’ll get me back into scrapping.  I already have so many ideas for pages in my head but I thought I needed to at least start from the beginning with the day that she entered our lives before I jumped ahead to the present day.

I used the lyrics from Shania Twain’s “From This Moment” song with the photo of the instant I met our little baby girl. 🙂  What’s great about being a rookie at digital scrapbooking is that you can find a lot of free templates to use online (like this one) where you just add your photo and change the papers (which you can also find for free on some sites).  I like the idea of using strips of different (scrap) pieces of patterned paper on a layout like this so I think I’ll try transferring the idea to a real scrapbook layout (hopefully sometime soon) too.

Supplies used:

Shabby Princess:  Piece of Cake blog template challenge #3
Designer Digitals:  Andrea Victoria Mod Bebe Girl paper pack #3, #7, #9
Designer Digitals:  Maplebrook Studios Colbie paper pack #2, #6
Computer Fonts:  CAC Shishoni Brush (title) and Seraphic Organism