Fun "THANK YOU" Cards

Isn’t it always nice to say Thank You to someone that you care about with a personalized card? These cards are as simple as just fun patterned paper with stickers - then adhered to a thicker cardstock.

This summer I have had so many friends and family members help me out with various things. They range from really simple acts of kindness all the way to going the extra mile and inconvenience to themselves.

Some of them have been waiting quite sometime for me to say thank you others it will seem like it was just the other day - all the same I love and appreciate you all.

The other day – I got in the zone and created so many cards. I just sat there with sweats on and the rain pouring outside with a couple of really good movies going in the background. Great atmosphere for card creating - huh?

Any how now I have to get these sent out! Thankfully, I have the cards done. Anyways, I thought I would post a few of my favorites. Perhaps they will give you ideas or you may want to comment on them and give me ideas, either way – ENJOY!

Homemade Custom Placemats

Creating homemade custom place mats for each member of your family is a fun way to connect. It is a lot of fun for your kids to choose their themes and items they want on their place mats.

Let the fun begin – what I like to do first is name placement. Then you can add the stickers around. Sometimes on the back of the place mat I put the alphabet or numbers as a border. I even use shapes (i.e. circles, squares and triangles) as well as colors – thus creating a learning mat.

I use a lot of my scrap booking items - stickers, die cuts, pretty much anything. It is also fun to use a picture of the person (I made place mats for my primary class one year. I just took a photo of each one of them, printed them off and created a place mat which had their name, photo and stickers of what they liked.) It turned out to be a nice surprise for them as well as their parents. This is pictured below -

My kids have used their place mats for play dough and painting. Mostly we use them to sit as a family for meals. It is a lot of fun.

It is a simple – yet fun gift to involve your kids in making for someone special.

Try it – let me know what you think!

12x12 Graduation Momento Card

Graduation day has come and gone. Hooray!! In the weeks leading up to our daughters graduation from high school - I found myself pondering just what I was going to do for her in the way of a card. I definitely wanted it to be something special - a sort of a way to show her how she had changed over the years. Of course, all those school photos that had been taken of her from kindergarten to present. I could finally put them to use - some of the older ones haven't been hanging in the house for what seems like forever. I used my favorite program - photoshop and created this card. I placed all the photos and labeled them with the grade and year it was taken. Then I used some scrapbook paper and finished the front off with heart shaped fasteners and silver alphabet stickers for her name.

The inside of the card I wanted to drive home the real point of how she has grown - how appropriate to use her baby photo from the day she was born and her most recent photo in her cap and gown. My husband and our other two children each wrote our own little message on paper and stuck them to the card. I used a wonderful scripture on vellum to add a little more meaning to the page.

Basically, I wanted Kayla to have a good starting point for the scrapbook she can now create for herself.
I am pleased with the finish product - what do you think?