This one is actually going to my daughter's school teacher. (the inside says "you make everything better") My kiddo has had a rough time at school the last few years, but at least this year she had a good teacher. She will tell you that, too. I don't know her teacher super well, but on her faculty page it says her favorite color is turquoise and that she likes cookies. I can do that. I was also drawn to this ribbon and realized the dots are a perfect match, and I think it's because she's one of those people who just exudes light. Bless her. Seriously. She is exactly the kind of person who should teach elementary age children.
Most years I have given my children's teachers a small thank you, and usually it's a short stack of cards for them to use and some kind of treat. We have a lot of cookie places around here, so we got this teacher a gift card for one of them. She also got five cards to use, this card from me, and a picture my daughter drew for her.
Hello again! This is getting very real! My daughter started online training for her mission this week, everything is purchased, we have flight information, just waiting for time to pass! That should mean I get a little more time for new paper crafting soon, too...!
Not at all surprisingly, she loves the calendar. She did forget I was doing this and she was so excited looking thru it.
Here are the next four calendar pages she's taking with her!
December
Happy Friday to you! Another late post... I hope this isn't becoming a thing!
I hope you're looking forward to the weekend, mine will be PACKED.
My family and I are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You may know our church as LDS or Mormons. My older daughter has chosen to serve a mission for our church, and you may have seen our missionaries, wearing black name tags in your town. Missionaries choose to leave home and college and regular life, to serve, and are assigned to serve in a specific location. My daughter will be going to the Lubbock Texas mission, which includes about half of New Mexico as well as western Texas. She will do her training in Mexico City and she'll be primarily working with people who speak Spanish. She is SO excited. It will be a lot of work for her, for the next nineteen months, and it has been some work preparing as well. But this will be a wonderful adventure and we are all very happy for her.
She speaks in church this Sunday, as is traditional before a missionary leaves. That means we're expecting around 75 people (there were 62 people in my house plus the five of us!) to come to our house afterwards, which is fun, but a lot, haha. And that means we've been spending this entire week prepping.
I saw an idea to make a photo calendar for your missionary so they have photos of home hanging in their room. And also it's a bit of a photo album they can show their companions (something like a roommate). Well...I can make a photo calendar! (I used to do these as Christmas gifts for both my husband's and my parents.) I decided to go with 12x12 size for my daughter, so it's not a great photo album for taking around, ha, but it will be nice wall decor that will also be fun for her.
It's sort of a surprise for her, but she still contributed. For example, she selected a huge album of photos she thought she might want to take, which I selected from, haha... And I asked for some of her favorite scripture verses and some of her favorite worship songs and hymns. Also, I *told her I would make her a calendar, rather than print 90+ photos. So it's a surprise she knows about? haha.... yes.
And so! I will split up the 20 "pages" into a few separate posts, so as to not bore you to death, ha. The photos span the last three or so years, mostly of her with different family and friends. She chose the sillier ones- photos I would not have included, but clearly, she wanted reminders of the fun times too. And the nature pictures are, I think, entirely her own photography, which is fun.
...for this year anyway, haha!
This is a very late post for today. I've been trying to catch up on books for my oldest daughter, so right now I have yet another Easter page for you. This one was all about the pretty DP, and some cute photos.
Today I have a bright color combo which I think I really toned down, haha!
I love this wreath idea, where I stamp something tiny and colorful and then layer the white floral wreath on top. This time I found a couple very small flowers and a leaf in The long-retired, wood mount Botanicals For You set. I added a few tiny Rhinestones and it's done!
I used the color combo from TGIF Challenges for this one.
This is clearly the same day I shared yesterday, but for my other daughter's books. It's funny because I forget that rainbow is good for St Patrick's Day stuff- usually I stick to green and gold, ha. But this is the second time this week that this exact DP showed up, so I suppose I remembered twice!
Hello again!
Today's St Patrick's Day layout uses a challenge from last summer to use three sheets of half-forgotten DP. You got it! Altho this DP did belong to my MIL for the first 15 years it existed, ha.
I don't think I've ever used blue on a St Patrick's Day layout, but I don't really know why not.
Somehow or other, it has become tradition that we eat some kind of festive food to celebrate- this year it was mashed potatoes, soda bread muffins, and some green vegetables, specifically roasted broccoli and baked zucchini. This year, the kids also woke up to skittles and gold coins, haha. And it's finally scrapped!
Happy Monday to you!
Today kicks off my little bit of St Patrick's Day layouts. I think this might be the first year we ever took a picture of St Patrick's Day "wearin' o' the green". It was just funny because both green tshirts belonged to my son. My daughter is wearing a Minecraft shirt and he is wearing Legends of Zelda, ha. But, I made a fun layout for them - finally. I actually made a copy for each kid, tho they are basically identical.
I also used a sketch shared by Cheryl a while back, for this fun layout. Single-photo pages are not my forte, ha.
hola! My daughter is actively studying Spanish, and I took five and a half years of German, 30ish years ago, so we've all been throwing out non-English words this week, ha. And that's what came out of my fingers onto the keyboard just now, so hola!
Today I have another layout for our scrapbook month challenges. This challenge was to focus on one or more colors. I chose green for peace and yellow for happiness, to go with these random, imperfect photos of my youngest and my husband. I used three shades of green and one shade of yellow.
Did you get to make anything this week? I think you should...!
Hello again!
Today I have a quick layout (sort of- there's two fussy cut images there, that takes a minute, ha) that I actually made two of- one for each of my daughters. We just had a picnic lunch at a park together one day and I snapped some cute moments, so here's a page, ha!
So, I'm part of a little scrapbooking group on Splitcoaststampers, and this month they had a virtual scrapbook night month with a handful of challenges. This single day trip was scrapped using two different challenges, and still all goes together!
First up, a wordplay challenge, with the letters L-O-V-E.
For this page, I chose Letters, Oval, Violet, Embellishments. ha.
Supplies:
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Alphabet Appeal
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Basic White, Wisteria Wonder card stocks
Accessories: Oval Punch, Subtles Candy Dots, Neutrals Candy Dots
Journaling Font: Janda Elegant Handwriting
Then the second part of the day fit a challenge to try the smooching technique. I used the two purpley inks and spritzed them with water. Then I laid a small piece of white card stock on the ink, and cut out a scallop circle from it. Then I cut that circle in half for the layout.
