Principal Appreciation

This week is Teacher Appreciation week but now that my kids are in the upper grades, we really haven't done individual gifts anymore. The secretary at our school though asked if I could come up with some Principal Appreciation cards from the staff and this is what I came up for the male. Let me tell you that their mascot is Mustangs so I thought this retiring horse would be perfect - and I copied Chelsea's Alphabet panel idea!



See the detail of the "notepaper"? That's from the set, Just a Note and I love it for these kinds of accents. The horse is embossed and the mat is actually Kraft cardstock. I took these photos at night and the color is not quite right. Sorry!



Card Materials: Bazzill blue, Kraft cardstock, Hieroglyph Horses, Just a Note, Background Soup, and clear embossing powder

This retiring set is now on sale...and I was lucky enough to have my card in the catalog last year featuring it. I'm not even a horse person but it's such a fun and versatile set!

This card is for the Sketch challenge over at The Angel Company and it also fits in with:

The Pixie Cottage - sketch or one for the boys
Papercrafts Star - find your own sketch

Featured In the Creative Corner!

eeck! I won in The Angel Company's latest Card to Crop contest so my two items are featured over in the Creative Corner on their website. It's so exciting. I know the layouts are quite simple but the coloring on my sunflowers actually came out nicely...and how can you go wrong with this paper?! I also want to give a shout out to one of my downlines, Clarissa, who won the Packaged Oh So Pretty category...I love it!

all paper and stamps from The Angel Company

Stamps: Tag Tidbits, Just a Note, Flowers and Holly

Accessories: Sands of Time, Bazzill brown monochromatic pack, Mimi Ribbon, Brown Scrappers Floss

Today was a Lucille Ball type of morning...am I dating myself with that comparison? My son was all out of clean jeans and the pair in the dryer were still too damp to wear (at least for winter - if it were summer I'd say they'll dry fast! tee hee)...so, there I stood, with 5 minutes to go, a hairdryer stuck in the pockets to spot dry them...they were carpenter pants so they had lots of wet pockets! After I got him to school, it was time to feed the chickens. The neighbor had brought me a pumpkin bread last week...not like my yummy muffins I blogged about, I'm sorry to say. It was one of those dense, heavy brick like breads - which only got worse as it sat in my refrigerator. Perfect treat for the chickens! As I broke it up for them and threw it into their pen, one escaped (she spotted a worm outside the coop, how could I deny her that?!) but when I went to catch her and put her back in, I got feathers stuck all over my hands from the stickiness of the pumpkin bread! What a mess...and what a morning!

If you are here visiting from my sponsorship over at the Card Patterns blog this week, thanks for stopping by! You can see my take on the sketch and enter my blog candy here!