A Fond Farewell

So this week is yet again bittersweet. I will officially be starting training for MY NEW JOB! But that means that people are leaving... At the end of the week, we are having a potluck for three teachers who are leaving the center and since I wanted to do another post, I figured I might as well make cards for them! I found a cute card online that wanted me to have Cricut instruments which I do not have so... My solution was to print out the pictures and cute them by hand! Not as neat but works for this girl on a budget! I made three different cards with the same theme! I tried to pick out colors that fit the people who will receive the cards!

 <---- Julie and Allison --->

April

I selected colors for the background and then picked out the card color to match.

Here we go with my print out flower! The previous maker had used a dark green to make the white pop so I did too! I cut out the white flower first then used that to cut the green flower! Once I had finished those two, I cut the yellow part off the printed flower and used that to cut my own yellow tips!

 One thing to note is that the flower is not symmetrical so watch yourself before you glue!

 Then I glued the flower onto the front of the card.

Ladybugs! I free handed this one because I thought printing it to cut would be more trouble than it was worth. 

It turned out pretty well!

The ladybug sitting on it's flower!

Using a green sharpie (or black), add random dots and dashes around the outside of the flower to add some dimension! I thought it might have been something that the Cricut stuff did but it was easy since it's random!

The outside is complete!

Dragonflies for the inside! I free handed these as well!

The text says "Thank you and good luck. You will be missed." It is meant to look like the flight path of the dragonfly!

 These ladies will truly be missed and I can't believe how quickly time has gone! Guess I better go to the store so I can make the cookies for the potluck too!