While writing up yesterday's post I realized that there were several new project kits that I hadn't seen before and I thought I would take the time today to share just some with you that I found interesting.  If you follow the links below you will be able to see all of the new kits by searching in the American Girl Crafts section of the online store.

Saige's Dog Sewing Kit

Saige Inspired Bracelets & Rings

Wrap & Bead Belt Kit

Easy Stitch Headband & Bracelet Kit

Scrap & Stuff Books

And then I noticed that they also had the mini Scrap & Stuff books for your dolls as well!  Kind of interesting...it would be fun to see what's in this kit.

There you have it!  These are just some of the things that I noticed were new the other day while looking at the American Girl Crafts kits.

American Girl Crafts Creative Card-Making Pad

The other day I was helping Zoey get ready to go to a friend's house (who happened to be celebrating her birthday) and upon getting the gift that we had gotten her ready we realized we had neglected to get a birthday card.  No worries!  Zoey could make one using punch outs from her Creative Card-Making Pad from American Girl Crafts!  I thought I would share with you what she ended up making so you could get a little glimpse of what the kit all entails.

She chose the yellow patterned card and punched it out of the pad and folded it.

She chose what birthday punch out she wanted to use and punched that out and adhered it to the front of the card using the 3 dimensional adhesive that is also included in the kit.

She then got busy writing her sentiment on the inside of the card.

We also had one of the American Girl Crafts sticker pads so she chose some of those for the inside of the card as well.

Here are some of the stickers that are included in the sticker pad that we have.  There are some pretty cute ones!

Once she was all done with her writing and with the stickers she flipped the card over and wrote her name in the "Made Especially for You" box.

Here is the finished card along with the punched out and assembled matching envelope.

Quick, easy, fun and CUTE!

American Girl Star Album Memory Book

Our little scrapbooking session was a hit!  We had so much fun...for those that may have missed my previous post, I made two little scrapbooks for Zoey and her friend Gracie to fill with photos and stickers and things to remember their visit to the American Girl store together this past summer.  I chose to make a star album because I thought it would be cool to have it fold out in a star...since American Girl has the star as part of their logo.  

I used patterned papers from the American Girl Crafts collection of papers that are sold and manufactured by EK Success.

Here is the book folded open and tied...pretty neat huh?

I made the covers of the books the same for each girl and let them do whatever they wanted to the insides...for the complete directions to create the basic star album itself check out the site Scrapbook-Crazy.  I created the album by following their directions with the exception of not using the 6 pieces of 8 x 5 3/4 inch pieces of cardstock.  We didn't need that much paper and it allowed the inside pages of the album to be a bit bigger so the girls were able to put more things on them.  If you aren't familiar with scrapbooking, to create something like this using a simple paper trimmer such as this one would really make this project easier.  I like using adhesive runners for my scrapbooking projects but any adhesive that is a favorite would be just fine.

I put out a basket of ready to go photos for them to use making sure that I had duplicates of all of them so each girl could get and use what they wanted.

Here is a close-up of the chipboard alphabet stickers from the American Girl Crafts collection.  They are adhesive backed so the girls just needed to peel off the backing and they were good to go!

I also pulled out some little sticky gems and then along with the alphabet letters we also had some little hearts and butterflies and things for them to use.  I cut some star journaling spots for them to use using my Silhouette Cameo die-cutting machine.

Here the girls are getting busy with their books!  I also gave them a sheet of paper that had a whole bunch of cute and fun quotes from the same paper pack by American Girl Crafts to cut and adhere to their book pages as they wanted.  A quick and easy way for them to have a little "journaling" on their pages!

It was fun listening to the girls talk about their memories from visiting the American Girl store this past summer as they scrapped.

Here are some peeks at the pages in their albums at various stages of progress...I LOVE THEM!!!

Zoey looks a wee bit crazy in this photo (perhaps it has something to do with how little sleep she got at this sleepover????) but the girls had SO much fun and I am thinking that we may need to schedule some fairly routine scrapbooking sessions with these two!  It was a great way to spend part of an afternoon. 

NEW American Girl Craft Books, Kits and Mystery Series Books!

I happened upon some exciting news regarding American Girl releases while doing a search on Amazon today.  I stumbled upon some items that have a pre-order option for February 26, 2013 which means there are some new things coming down the pipe for AG lovers!  Check out these fun finds and share if any will be on your list...

Doll Boutique Crafting kit has a pre-order date of February 26, 2013 on Amazon

I can't wait to see more pictures of what's included in this kit!  We love the Doll Dining and Doll School kit so much!

Stitch and Send Card kit has a pre-order date of February 26, 2013

I also found some Historical Doll Color & Craft kits.  I can't wait to see these in person to see exactly what they are all about.  Here is one featuring Julie Albright...

Julie Color & Craft kit with a release date of February 26, 2013

and one featuring Kit Kitteridge...

Kit Color & Craft kit with a release date of February 26, 2013

and one for Rebecca Rubin.

Rebecca Color & Craft with a release date of February 26, 2013

And then some new release mysteries...

Traitor in the Shipyard a Caroline Mystery with a release date of February 26, 2013

The Haunted Opera a Marie-Grace Mystery with a release date of February 26, 2013

Lost in the City a Julie Mystery with a release date of February 26, 2013

Do you see something that peaks your interest?  I think we're intrigued by the Doll Boutique kit and it will be fun to see what the Color & Craft books are all about but I think for the rest we can wait and get copies from the library!