Just call me Martha

not.  Though I desire to be uber-crafty, I rarely ever get it going on like I should, at least not in the manner of the Crafty Dog.  However, my girls somehow inherited a crafty gene that I had no idea existed in our family.  They can draw and draw and draw all day long.  Not only that, the drawings resemble the ideas that they are based on! Picture that!  

Despite my lack of ideas, I can do things like cut out cards from cardstock AND score them.  It only took me years to figure out how to do this correctly (without wasting oodles of paper), so I am extremely proud of myself (the little things, you know) and like to show off this talent.  Today for the 18th time, I asked Kelsey whether she wanted to make or buy Valentine's Day cards, and she finally decided to make again this year (woot!).  

Now I don't know about anyone else, but to me there is something so sweet about a homemade Valentine's Day card. I figured as long as I could find the paper trimmer and enough cardstock for 20 cards, we were in business.  Lo and behold, I managed both.  We quickly reviewed the card sizes and realized a 4 x 6 card folded in half would be perfect.  They are the size of store-bought cards and since the names were going on the front of the card, no envelope to worry about.

Ten minutes later, cards were cut and scored, and Kelsey was working away.  I realized right as she was about to start that marker on red paper (even black) would be hard to read at best.  Out came the silver letter stickers that needed using and that problem was solved.  I stuck on the letters, Kelsey wrote the greetings and drew hearts on the inside and an hour later (max), we were finished. The card may not turn into a car or have Sweetarts inside (I can hear her friends' parents thanking me already...), but she put more effort into those than I ever did into the pre-made cards (which we did buy Nick, but I only have so much energy).

 

 

Note to self:  Always check previous year's cards to see if they were fancier;  they were.  Oh, well, I tried.  Now to make the ingredient list for the cupcakes....Oh, all right, I really just wanted to post photos of her making the cards as I think it is so darn sweet and, sniff, one day she might not want to make cards and I'll need this post to remind me of the fun we had....

 

 

 

Comments

[Kate]

Well done! And, she has a kid named Jubilee in her class? That's festive.