It's All About The Kids Craft Blogging Event - Day 2 - Graduating from Sticky University

Welcome to Day 2 of the It's All About The Kids Craft Blogging Event.  Today, I want to share a fun papercrafting project, which also works well with some baked goods (e.g. cookies), but also many other treats and handmade items.  And, I also want to share insights with you about Sticky University, as well as encourage you to visit blogs that are sharing a variety of kid friendly crafty projects this week.  After all, it really is all about the kids.....





Tombow is all about crafty goodness with many kid friendly products to help kids of all ages create and have fun.  SewCalGal has been a fan of Tombow for many years and sincerely recommends their products.  You may also recall SewCalGal was a participant in the 100 days of Tombow Campaign, where Tombow celebrated 100 years in the crafting business, by raising money for the Council of Art Education.

Recently SewCalGal was asked to participate in Sticky University, where Tombow was seeking crafty bloggers to create using their new "Xtreme Adhesive".  Participants receive a  "Sticky U Starter Kit", which contains a free sample of Xtreme Adhesive, a Sticky U certificate and a Sticky U t-shirt and mentions on the 
 Tombow USA Blog, the Sticky U Pinterest Board, Tombow’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.  And, for this blogging event, Tombow will giveaway 3 opportunities for bloggers in the US/Canada to join Sticky University and receive a Sticky U Starter Kit for you to create with too!  

While working on my certificate from Sticky University, SewCalGal put Xtreme Permanent Adhesive thru many tests with variety of crafty projects where I used paper,embossed metals, plastic, yarn, ribbons,buttons and fabric.  

 I found Xtreme Permanent Adhesive to be the strongest adhesive in a  dispenser that I've ever used, making it one of my new favorite crafty products.  

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As this adhesive comes in an easy to use dispenser, is non-toxic, acid-free and comes in a refillable dispenser, I'm confident it is also a kid friendly product.  SewCalGal recommends this product for 10+ ages, but it would also make an excellent product for family craft nights with parental supervision.

Of all the projects I created, my favorite kid friendly project was to use my Silhouette Cameo

to cut a bag from cardstock with an acorn motif, using Silhouette's design #48175.

My "kid" volunteer helped to make these bags, as well as the Snickerdoodle cookies that we placed inside to give to neighbors.

We had fun baking Snickerdoodles, while the Silhouette cut out the acorn boxes.

It cut two boxes per 12"x12" sheet of Fall colored card stock paper.

We lightly folded the box into shape.

And we rolled the Xtreme Adhesive dispenser on the tabs, to apply the adhesive.

And we lightly pressed the tabs with adhesive to the appropriate sides of the box.

And quite quickly, we had a very cute box ready to fill with treats!

And here is a photo showing a 3D box where I used Xtreme Adhesive to stick some beautiful handmade clay buttons from South Africa, from  Button Mad (Incomparable Buttons).  The buttons stuck easily, without me worrying about them falling off, yet the recipient of such a box could easily remove them from the paper box, to use these sweet buttons on clothing or other craft projects, in the future.  

While I've made 3D boxes many times before I found that when I filled them with odd shapes, or heavy items, the seams of the box would sometimes open up as the adhesive wasn't strong enough.  With Xtreme Adhesive we didn't have a single box to open up, even when we moved the filled boxes around and delivering them to neighbors!  

Tombow also created a short Youtube video that provides a great overview of this new adhesive:

If you are using a MAC or having problems watching this embedded video, here is a link where you can watch it directly in youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0pvqHUQYi0

Also, Tombow has created a glue guide pdf that provides a great comparison of Xtreme Adhesive to other sticky products (glue tape, liquid glues, glue sticks, and tabs) which is a very handy reference tool when considering which product you may want to use to sticking various materials together.

Don't forget several blogging friends are joining me this week, to help share insights on kid friendly projects.  Here is the schedule and links to all the participating blogs.  Some will also be hosting giveaways on their blogs too!

Monday, October 27th

SewCalGal - Event kick off

Tuesday, October 28th

SewCalGal  

Sarah Vedeler Designs  

Wednesday, October 29th

SewCalGal  

Happy Cottage Quilter

Thursday, October 30th

SewCalGal

I Have A Notion  

Freemotion by the River

Blue Feather Studio/Marjorie's Quilting Bee

Friday, October 31st

SewCalGal

Jacquelynne Steves, The Art of Home  

Hoffman California Fabrics  

Jean's Quilting Page  

Wendy Sheppard/Ivory Spring 

If you are a blogger or non-blogger and would like to join the fun and share insights on projects suitable for kids, tips, or tutorials, as appropriate, you are also welcome to join the fun and add a link to the linky below.  Non-bloggers can upload photos in a Flickr group called "It's All About The Kids".

An InLinkz Link-up

Did I Mention A Giveaway?

This is a giveaway for bloggers that want to join Sticky University, where Tombow wants crafty bloggers to create using their new "Xtreme Adhesive".  Three lucky winners will  receive a  "Sticky U Starter Kit", which contains a free sample of Xtreme Adhesive, a Sticky U certificate and a Sticky U t-shirt and mentions on the 
 Tombow USA Blog, the Sticky U Pinterest Board, Tombow’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. 

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Rules for this giveaway:

1) You must be a blogger that enjoys crafty goodness and want to participate in the Tombow Sticky University program, whereby you will later blog what you create and provide your honest feedback about Xtreme Adhesive.
2) You must reside in the US or Canada.
3)  Winners will be randomly selected, using the random number generator within the Rafflecopter tool and announced on this post Sunday, November 2nd

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