My lovely oldest niece Emily came over for a day of card making and companionship. Here is her completed gallery, after approximately 6.5 hours of die cutting, trimming, coordinating, and gluing! Here are two of the unknown quantity of cards I made (possibly six?): Now you know how we both felt about this day. Thank you for coming over, Emily!
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Our family has a lot of summer celebrations on the calendar, so I used the latest MFT sketch as inspiration for a birthday card. The word and polka dot papers have been in the stash for ages--they were in a 6x6 paper pad that I think came from Target clearance! Regular readers of this blog will recognize the versatile Sizzix balloon triplits, here with the star insert to coordinate with the star embossing folder and hint at patriotism and warm summer nights.
The emoji were everywhere today! They meandered through the garden. . . They romped amid the rainbows. . . They even blasted off into space! Here's hoping that their adventures today will keep them quiet for a while. They're cute, but very high maintenance!
My mother needed custom-sized envelopes for some cards she found in her stash, so I was forced(!) to buy paper on the Michael's clearance a few days before Christmas. The A6 envelopes required 8-7/8" squares, so I now have a whole collection of beautiful 3-1/8" patterned paper strips perfect for greeting cards! The Nutcracker paper pad had a lot of little sentiments, so there should be many more fun projects from this purchase.
One chocolate-chip cookie cupcake was enough to make each child full and happy! Emmett in particular was really excited to have cupcakes. We learned all about the wicked King Noah, who also taught all of the Nephites in his kingdom to do bad things. The children thought all of his subjects should have moved away when he told them to pay taxes, and that all the ones who had stayed then should have left when he hired false priests who preached false doctrine. Unfortunately, that is not what happened!
We learned that Heavenly Father sent Abinadi to tell the people to repent. King Noah heard about him and did not want to change his behavior or have the people change theirs, so he had Abinadi arrested. Abinadi taught the king and the false priests Heavenly Father's commandments. We took turns choosing stars that had commandments written on them, and discussing what Heavenly Father was telling us to do. Each child had to explain how to keep the commandment, and then had the privilege of putting the star on the chalkboard. . .because magnets are the most important educational tool in our classroom! We learned that Noah did not heed Abinadi's counsel, and only one of his priests did. Alma listened and felt the Holy Ghost telling him he needed to repent. He begged King Noah to free Abinadi, but Noah refused and threatened to kill Alma as well as Abinadi. Alma ran and hid and wrote down all the things he had learned from Abinadi. Much to the outrage of the entire class, King Noah then proceeded to kill Abinadi. They thought Abinadi should have escaped and taught more people! We talked about how Abinadi had done what Heavenly Father wanted, and that he had taught Alma, who would later teach a lot of other people. We learned that the Holy Ghost can teach us about the truth of all things. We discussed praying and listening for the Spirit. We learned about a boy who was meeting with the missionaries and received a witness from the Holy Ghost that what they were teaching him was true. We talked about being like a star and letting our light shine through our good examples. We listened to an old Primary song that Sister Combs sang frequently as a child. Then we colored a lot of stars and even more stars. |
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