What does one do with a single sheet of white paper with gold stripes? Find some Spellbinders dies that are the right size to fill in the blanks!
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Two of these used up the last of the "love" paper (see other cards here and here). The background is from the Lawn Fawn Knit Picky 6x6 pad, a possible future target of the Use It Up campaign. The birds, having been glued together with an excessive amount of scrapbooker's glue (having forgotten, as usual, to use a double-sided adhesive sheet before die cutting), are mounted on the card with foam squares for a little extra depth and interest, as is the little heart.
While trying to find the silly Valentine's paper I bought for $2 at Michael's last June, I came across this 6x6 Gold Glam paper, bought on clearance at JoAnn several years ago. Most of my paper stash originated on a clearance display, or one of those Michael's Hot Buy tables on 70% off day (especially when there is an option to stack an additional coupon on top). Most of my paper stash was bought with the best of intentions, because it filled some gaping hole in the collection. This pad, and its 12x12 big brother, are no different, except that they taught me, through sad experience, to stick to only one size of paper pad for any given design, because both sizes is just waaay too much paper for my purposes. This pad is more than halfway gone, so I have formed a bold resolution for January: use up the rest of it! If this works, I may be emboldened to use up a few more paper pads, or at least to resist buying (m)any more in 2020! Here is the first official card of the decluttering scheme. Actually two cards, because both of the "love" script pages were still in the pad. The gold words are really pretty, but I had struggled to find a way to soften the effect of the stark white background. There are vertical and horizontal strips left over for more cards. The original plan was to have three small hearts instead of one, and use it for the MFT card challenge, but the card looked much better this way. It's okay--I never win that contest anyway!
I hope not. . .because that's what I was making today! One example to start with, inspired by MFT's Sketch 417:
The children were unanimous in their opinion that the applesauce bars tasted good, but a chocolate treat would have been better! We have Fast Sunday next week and a special broadcast the week after, so Bennett recommended that we eat brownies in three weeks. Sister Combs did not make any promises! We took turns reading clues about a mystery person. The children figured out very quickly that they were reading about Jesus Christ. We talked about many of the wonderful things that He has done for us. We discussed how much Jesus loves us. Everything that He did was done because of love. Then we pondered how we can show our love for Him. We talked about three ways to demonstrate our love:
Our coloring page will help us share what we learned with our families. The children were supposed to fill in the fourth box with another way to show love for Jesus Christ.
We had a little extra time at the end, so the boys played a church matching game and the girls did some extra artwork. The children hope that their three missing classmates will be back to enjoy the fun and learning next week! Preston's Mom taught the class today. The children learned about ways that Jesus showed love for others, including when He blessed the Nephite children. They also talked about how they can be loving and kind to their friends, family, and classmates. Next week, we will spend the entire second and third hours preparing for the Primary Program on September 20, so we will not have a CTR lesson.
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