It is only to be expected that they will get better than you. My daughter's cards are looking good. I love her lego card, Pinterest inspired, naturally:
Here is the link to where we got the idea. My daughter was 6 years old when she made this card. I think I punched out the spots, because they are the ones from the Stampin Up Owl Punch, so we would have had 100 owls punched out otherwise! My daughter picked the colours and decided to have three big blocks. The spots are slightly raised using padded double sided sticky tape from Poundland. Honestly I don't work there, but I love the fact that you can get reasonable crafty bits from there. It is probably the first place I go when trying to source bits for a new project.
The next year we finally discovered Harry Potter, and became fans. Well the Husband and I had been fans for a while, but the kids got in on the act too. As did some of their friends. I think this card that my daughter made is pretty cool too:
The idea for this came from here, obviously we just freehanded it and didn't use the template. I found paper as close to Gryfindor colours as I could. I'm sure we'd have used felt tips if I didn't have a sheet or two or the correct colours.
All this crafting is not so much of a problem when we are only sending one card, but when we're both sending to the same person its a little embarrassing when hers are better. Here are the cards we made for my brother's wedding.
Mine:
I was so pleased with this card, inspired by this one, but then my daughter created her own design, which I think is simple, but so effective:
Though it isn't all bad, at least now we're getting even more use out of my many hole punches!
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