Flowers from my Stash

None of you were any help for naming posts! lol
Maybe I should ask the kids to start naming them for me...oh em gee, that's what I'll do. Of course, that means that said kids will have to be around while I'm blogging. File it as an idea, anyhow.

The current Shopping our Stash challenge, #53, is to use flowers. Easy-peasy! And since Simon Says Stamp is hosting an Anything Goes challenge this week, I'm linking up to them too :) Shopping our Stash ends Monday night, and Simon Says ends Tuesday night.

Supplies: cardstock from Coredinations;
embossed with Cuttlebug folder, sanded, traced with Sakura Stardust pen;
standard circle Nesties;
flower die cut from K&Co

Supplies: flower digi stamp from Squigglefly;
watercoloured with reinkers sooooo long ago;
yellow paper from Basic Grey "Piccadilly;"
orange paper from scrap bin;
sentiment from Kaisercraft; Palette Noir ink;
bamboo crochet thread

The first card is an all-stash star - that embossed piece of paper has been rustling around in the ol' scrap bin for a very long time, with a circle cut out of it. I made a recessed-frame sort of thing by popping that piece up on foam tape over the card base, and then tucking the flower die cut partially into the frame.
As for the second card, the flower is the stash here - my printer doesn't like digis. Well, to be fair, what I mean is that no matter what I do, no matter what sealant, heat gun, whatever, I apply, the ink smudges. So, I thought to myself, after applying a coat of sealant, why don't I emboss over the lines? So I used a glue pen and clear EP to super smudge-proof the image....without thinking ahead that as it melted, the EP would cover slightly more area since I don't have the steadiest hand. I finished colouring, let it dry, and tossed it in the scrap bin for another day when I wasn't annoyed with how long it had taken.
Riley's teacher had her baby over the weekend - everyone is healthy, which is fantastic.
There's no way to follow that without seeming churlish, but I'm going to anyway. It's really difficult for any child to lose their teacher partway through the year. Add several other factors: large, difficult class; last year at that school (as in, many transition meetings for staff between the elementary & middle schools); and less than a month before the end of the year & report cards; and autism? I have no idea how the school plans to compensate for these things, and I know things will fall through the cracks. One small saving grace is that the school was prepared enough to have a substitute already hired & ready to finish the school year (last time, when Connor was in her class, it took nearly 6 weeks to find a permanent substitute.)
Add to all these things the fact that the grade 6 class had some pretty in-depth lessons about procreation this year? Boy howdy, have I been getting interesting questions. Parenting is not for wimps!
xoxo,
Jessi