Creative Grace

First time {spattering} with ink

I have loads of cards I need to make for the coming week - the last week of the 2011-12 school year! Yahoo!  I'm really lookng forward to a change of pace and a little much needed down time before my summer jobs start - but first, I must get cracking on some cards.

I wanted to make a special card for the two girls that have worked in my classroom all year - they are moving on to high school (*sniff sniff*) so I wanted to send them off with something special.  I thought this was a good time to try out the "spatter" technique since there's a challenge for that over at Moxie Fab World and I've never tried it before!  I figured the girls would like this since I actually do a blood spatter lab with my students (I teach a little unit in forensic science), I just haven't tried it with ink before, haha! 

Hopefully they will make the connection :)

I added a few black pearls and red twinkle stickers for added pop.  School colors, of course :)  

This fun Moxie Fab World Spatter Challenge ends tonight (got mine in at the last minute - eek!) hurry up and play along if you can.  

baby part 2

It's really astonishing to think about how many people in my life right now are immersed in baby land.  Whether pregnant or just given birth, I'm sorta feeling like babies are taking over the world at the moment.  It's funny how life happens in waves like that.  

So, that brings me to baby card #2.  I liked the general concept of this card I did, so I went with that as a starting place and just changed the colors and stamps.  I did peek at photos the Mom had posted of the nursery to try and compliment that.  I guess that's my strategy for the baby card - go with something the Mom likes.

I still think it needs a nice martini glass... the Mom would also like that, right? :)