Danielle is the “Star Student” this week! So she and I had a lot of fun this weekend working on her star poster. She is very into High School Musical, Camp Rock and Hannah Montana. Since she spends a lot of evenings singing along and knows most of the songs we decided to make a music star themed board. Of course we used black to accentuate the coolness factor!

We made the guitar by tracing hers on Cricut’s 12 x 36 white card stock. The fun part was decorating it with Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, and High School Musical stickers. We went to Target to get the stickers and I was surprised to find acrylic stamps for Hannah Montana and High School Musical! I snatched the last one of each up and made sure Danielle understood that these were MY stamps, but that she could use them for this project. The stamp sets at Target are larger than the ones pictured below. They have a lot of great stars, flourishes, hearts, and music graphics that are very versitile. They do not have the large character stamps pictured below.

I helped her stamp them in black and she worked on coloring the details the rest of the weekend. The huge gemstone sticker “knobs” were the perfect finishing touch, too cute!

The stars were cut with two Creative Memories star shapes. There are a total of twelve cut out with DCWV’s glitter card stock in pink, purple and silver. They made great mats for the photos which were cut and embossed with Nestabilities. Of course you’ll see that two of the photos are not of her. As we were leaving Target she saw greeting cards with John McCain and Barack Obama on them and she just HAD to add them to her star board. If she’d seen a Sarah Palin card then she would have insisted on adding her as well. I bet there are not very many Kindegartners with these “stars” on their board! Obviously we’ve had (FOX) news on pretty frequently in our house the last few months!

Danielle wrote all of the photo captions herself with a white Inkssentials gel pen, my FAV. Of course it took us a while since I had to spell (almost) every word! We disassembled two bows which she picked out at Target and I punched holes on the sides of the poster board. She got a lot of practice tying knots. And finally I let her fill in all the blank spaces with stamped silver stars.