More Crayon-y Thanks

How's your day going?  I'm off to ME to clean our cottage for some new renters.  Before I head out, I thought I'd share another crayon inspired Thank You card.

Went a little bold with the crayons this time.  Not sure I love the red crayon.  I think if I were to do this again I might pick a different shade of red.  I feel like it stands out too much.  Perhaps an apple that was more red instead of the green? 

After looking at this, I'm inspired to make more of these.  The weather in the mornings has been lovely enough- maybe I'll color outside! 

Have a Happy Wednesday!

M

Thank You for a Great Year!

Today is the first weekday day of my summer break.  It was a pretty good year!  Lots of ups and downs, which is typical, and new friendships made.  My work "roommate" and I went through several interesting "roommates" before we got an awesome one!  We are so happy to have her joining our room again next year!!!  I also got a chance to get to know three new teachers.  Oh my goodness, I forgot how much energy I had when I was that young. ;-)  Happily their enthusiasm is contagious and they helped this old dog learn some new tricks!

Thinking about how thankful I am for this past year, these seemed like some perfect cards to share today.  If you follow me on Instagram, you had a peek when I shared these during Teacher Appreciation Week.  The trio at the top are cards I made for an Etsy customer.  The only thing more fun than using crayons is coloring them! 

The image is from Unity, the apple die cut is from Papertrey Ink, buttons are most likely My Favorite Things (but could also be Papertrey Ink), the twines are Twinery via a gal on Etsy, doilies are from the sale bin at Michael's, the sequins are from Taylored Expressions, and the papers are from my stash (either I bought off Paper Issues or got in my local kit club).  The copics I used were ones I pulled to match the papers in front of me.

Since I make WAAAAAAY more cards than scrapbook pages, I have lots of scrapbook-y stickers leftover from the Kit Club where I'm a member.  It occurred to me I could use these to stamp messages like "thank you" (Amuse).  Quite a lightbulb moment there, huh. ;-P  The image is My Favorite Things and I'm pretty sure I haven't ever actually colored this image.  I always seem to just outline this image with a coordinating color instead.  I just love how it pops!!!

Lots planned for this summer!  I'm tutoring 3 (maybe 4) kiddos, 3 trips are planned (2 to ME and 1 to The Cape), a Therapy Dog test (which we will likely fail next Tuesday, but its ok.  We can take it again), a possible class, lots of work on my Etsy shop (goodies to add and some great ideas on stuff to create!), a LONG outstanding project to finish for a friend, and oodles of reading.  A pretty tame summer this year and I am thrilled.  I'm going to need it!  I know what I have going on this autumn already and it will be quite jam packed!!!!

How 'bout you? Any big plans? Any little plans?

May all your plans come to fruition!  After all YOLO!!!

M

One Week From Now...

Is Teacher Appreciation Day!!! Do you have cards ready? This is the other card I made a ways back for a customer. This is yet ANOTHER stamp that had been sorely neglected.  It's perfect for a teacher card though, right?  I colored two of these triple apple images so I could play again later with this image.

That's all for now.  I gotta get busy in my studio tonight.  Vacation is over!  Time to get crafty!!!

Teacher Appreciation Day countdown

Teacher Appreciation Day is May 6th.  That's less than a month away folks.  I looked it up.  You'd think I would know it by now, but honestly it is always a surprise.  😏  I mention this because one of my customers is super on top of things!  This is one of the cards I made for her so she can be ready for the big teacher day. 

Thank goodness she was on top of things!  I've had this stamp for at least a year and it has been begging for ink!!!  It also has me getting in gear to make some more goodies to load in my Etsy Shoppe just for this day.  I thought I might play around with another card with this same palette and one that's more blues, aquas, and greens. 

I can't tell you how great teachers, especially specialists, feel when they get a card from one of their students.  It totally makes our day.  I keep all the cards and pictures in a special spot in my teacher space.  At the end of the year all the memories go in my memory box.  😊 I'm having to move to a dramatically smaller space next year.  I hope I will be able to have a spot to continue that tradition!

Do you celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day?  How do you remember those special teachers in your life?