A Hand-Penned Thank You Gift

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Hello there! You may have noticed that I am posting a bit more than usual. Ok, a lot more than usual. For one, I'm finally getting the hang of remembering to take photos of projects before I send them out and secondly, I'm trying to schedule my days better. My youngest heads off to college in a couple of weeks 😭 and I know that I will adjust to an empty house better if I have my days planned out for me rather than just floating along with nothing definite planned to do. Without a schedule, and some deadlines, it's too easy to let time slip away while staring at a screen. So, all of that to say I've been spending more time in my crafty space and trying my hardest to figure out the best ways to photo, edit, upload and all the other things that go along with keeping a blog. I do hope to post more regular than I have in the past and share some fun projects with y'all. 

A couple of projects I worked on earlier this month were Thank You cards and gifts for my awesome customers. Each month I like to send out a card and small gift as a way to say thank you for shopping with me. Here's where having a schedule would have worked in my favor. I wasn't paying attention to dates, realized it was much later in the month than I thought, rushed to finish up the projects, photograph and get them sent out, only to realize my lighting was terrible for photos that day and these didn't come out so great. Ugh! I'm learning a lot of lessons this week. 

I did like the way the cards came out though, and I especially like the little charms. I used the Hand-Penned DSP as the focal point on the card and stamped the envelope with the matching stamp. For the charm I used Staz-On to stamp on some shrink plastic and colored the image with our watercolor pencils. After shrinking the charms found the perfect color beads in my jewelry making stash to finish them off. Some people use these to mark their scissors, especially if they craft with others a lot, but I usually find it gets in my way. I like to use mine as a zipper pull. The one on my purse right now is 15+ years old. Does anyone remember this stamp set? 

Here's to a better "work" schedule for me, more posts in the future and learning how to iron out some of the kinks of having a blog. 

While we don't sell the jewelry findings or shrink plastic, here is a list of the Stampin' Up! supplies I used in these projects:

I hope you have enjoyed today's post. If you decide to place an order through my website, if your order is less than $150, please use the Host Code listed above (on the right), so I can send you an extra free goody. If your order is over $150 don't use the code as you get to pick out the goody yourself when you place your order. 

Till next time...

God's love and blessings!