Giveaway: December Daily Album Kit

Shabby Chic Crafts specializes in designer, handmade, high quality, scrapbooking paper products. Their products include: journaling tags, journaling spots, and embellishments in a variety of themes including holidays, calendar, animals and kids. The company has a special vintage type twist which is very popular right now in scrapbooking. Shabby Chic Crafts is pleased to introduce their new Fall/Winter releases shown above and below. The company also has a blog, where you can get the latest news about their releases. Click here to visit the blog.

Vintage Artisan Notes

Vintage Lace Tags

And Shabby Chic wants to give a lucky person a free December Daily kit! This kit is perfect for making an album to record the holidays, as outlined by Ali Edwards. To enter the giveaway please leave a comment below, telling me if you plan to make a December Daily album. If not, what other project do you think you could use the kit for?

Want more entries?

1. Follow Craft Gossip on Twitter and tweet this: ” Shabby Chic Crafts December Daily Kit Giveaway on @CraftGossip http://tinyurl.com/md4sgs“. Then leave a link to your twitter profile in the comments for a second entry.

2. Join the Scrapbooking on Craft Gossip group on Facebook and then post this as your status update: ” Shabby Chic Crafts December Daily Kit Giveaway on Craft Gossip!! http://tinyurl.com/md4sgs” Then leave a link to your Facebook profile in the comments for a second entry.

Entries will close next Wednesday, September 23rd. Winner announced Thursday September 24th. Good luck to all! And if you’re not the lucky winner you can still grab one of these kits from the store for only $14.99!

Lacing is a great fine motor activity, and most kids go through a phase where they enjoy working with lacing cards. It helps promote focus and is a great quiet activity for kids to do in the car or to fill time in the classroom. And of course knowing how to lace is the beginning of knowing how to sew, which is great for all kids to learn (more on teaching kids to sew here).

There are lots of ways to make your own lacing cards. This one is just a pin but it’s easy to make lacing cards with any shape a child is into using cardboard and a nail to poke the holes. This could be fun for letter and number recognition or spelling the child’s name. Or try this version from Hey Azka, which uses a hole punch to make bigger holes so you can lace with shoe laces.

You can also just do lacing cards with paper, but it’s a great idea to print them on card stock and/or laminate them to make them sturdier for little hands. Homeschool Share has a set of alphabet lacing cards, which are free with email signup. Deceptively Educational has a set of number lacing cards with numbers 0 to 10.

Picklebums has some basic shape lacing cards, too.

Living Life and Learning has a bunch of cute printable lacing cards, including back to school designs, shoes kids can lace and learn to tie and ocean themed lacing cards. She also has tips for making your own lacing cards.

A Rose Tinted World made their lacing cards with craft foam, which makes them a little more durable than paper and you can cut it more easily than cardboard. They used a die cutting machine but you can also cut shapes by hand.

I also love the cat and mouse cards from Seam Whisperer. They also have some spring themed designs. So cute!

If you want to make lacing cards that are more open ended, check out this tutorial form Pretty Life Girls to make lacing cards that are more like geo boards. Theirs are made with wood but you can also do this with cardboard, craft foam or card stock.

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