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 Perhaps you’ve noticed those little rectangular “Box Tops for Education” coupons on some of the products you buy.  They’re on many things, such as General Mills cereals, Betty Crocker frostings and brownie mixes, Pillsbury refrigerated cookie and bread dough, Kleenex tissues, Ziploc bags, even Huggies diapers! 

Our local elementary school collects them, and I’m in charge of getting them ready to send to General Mills.  We receive 10 cents for each one redeemed, and General Mills sends us a check for the amount we earn.

I’m very proud to say our little-ish school of just under 400 students has earned over $1000.00 for each of the last three school years.  I’ve even more proud to report that last year we earned more than any other participating school in our county.  (The year before I became the Box Tops coordinator, we earned just $550.00.) 

This year, we’re on track to earn $1500.00.  Lately I’ve been working on counting the Box Tops we’ve received this month, because the Box Tops school year ends February 28.  So I need to mail them off no later than Saturday! 

And there you have it… that’s why I’ve been only thinking of inking the last several days.

That’s right.  My older son turns 13 years old today.  icard.jpg

My younger son decided to give his brother an iTunes gift card and wanted me to make a card to go with it.  My friend Kathy (a/k/a Wrose) had shared this Valentine idea with my group of friends, so I decided to change it up into a birthday theme.  A shout of thanks goes out to my friend Victoria for helping me come up with song titles for the “playlist.”  I chose Stampin’ Up’s Green Galore cardstock because it most closely matches the color of my son’s iPod.  There’s no stamping on this card; I “drew” the wheelie thing in Microsoft Word and typed up the playlist using the Arial font.

I’m not going to make any smartalecky remarks about having a teenager, or wonder about where the time went, or anything like that.  I just hope my son knows I love him dearly, and that I’m proud of the young man he’s becoming.

Grrrrrr!

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Feb 092009

I’m sorry for the lack of posts lately.  My computer’s XD card slot reader has not been working, which means I can’t transfer photos from my camera’s memory card to my computer (because I have no clue where the camera cable is).  Of course, it would also help if I’d been making some cards and such to post on here, too.  But I’ve been doing more thinking of inking than actually stamping.

friend.jpgHere’s a card I made a while ago.  I don’t remember posting it online anywhere yet.  I modified one of the older weekly sketches from Lizzie Anne Designs slightly… the oval on the sketch was at the bottom of the wide bar, but for my card I felt it worked better at the top of the bar.  I tried sponging some Taken with Teal ink on the card base to add a little bit of shading or something, but it doesn’t really show in the photo.  Cutting out the letters was a bit of a pain, but between my Cutterbees and my Xacto knife, I got it done.

Supplies:
Stamps: Fundamental Phrases, Jumbo Outline Alphabet (Stampin’ Up!)
Cardstock: Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Bali Breeze designer paper (Stampin’ Up!)
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Taken with Teal (Stampin’ Up!)
Other: sponge, lots of patience while cutting out the letters!

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