Rain Puddles Design

When I'm not posting my traditional cards it's because I'm knee deep in some other craft. Today I'm sharing a simple useful project I ended up making because there were none on the shelf of my local store. It would have cost me more in gas to drive to another store to buy a set of flash cards than just going home and making them myself. I mean what don't I have that would work for making a simple stack of cards? I snapped a shot of the flash cards using TinyPost on my iPhone. It's a fun little app to have. I started with a free template I found at Teachers Pay Teachers by Sara Warren . I started to print and something happened to the lines... I'm not sure but probably user error, so I recreated these flash cards in CorelDraw and added the answers for the reverse side. My mother-in-law reminded me to add a rounded corner so they could be easily shuffled correctly, so I grabbed my Corner Chompers and made an easy (but long) job of rounded the corners....

A couple of weeks ago I was in my daughter's class for art mom duties and I helped make these adorable caramel apples. I started with some photos from the first day of class and then created the right sized apple and caramel shapes. So much fun and they had a blast! They glued caramel to the apple and then added some brown glitter glue to the top, but wait...they first added a picture of themselves to the front. Now isn't that sweet? awhhhhh. Have a great day! Details: Stamps: N/A Paper: Red and brown construction paper Ink: N/A Accessories: Mica glitter, Elmer's glue, popsicle stick

Happy Monday to you all! Did you see the neat inspiration for InStyle Stamps last week? Go check it out and then come back here to read about an unrelated project. I just had to put both in the same post because the project goes so well with  InSpiration Wednesday , . So I decided to try and be an Art Mom for my daughter's Kindergarten class this year. EDIT: I AM the Art Mom for the year. Last Tuesday I brought in to my daughter's classroom a crock pot and a Peel Away (peels, cores and slices apples and potatoes, possibly more than that). The teacher asked the class to each bring in an apple. While the children were in seatwork, they took turns using the Peel Away on their apple and then placed it in the crock pot. I added a few seasonings and when it was time for pick up the room smelled like chunky applesauce. Well, it was suppose to be applesauce but it resembled more of a pie filling. LOL Each student took home a cup to eat at lunch. Th...