My UVic reading course started up this week and I wanted to make some welcome cards for my students. I was feeling very uninspired with the supplies I had, so my crafty friend Tammy lent me some fun supplies to play with!

 My reading course is beginning again this semester, and though we were planning to be in person, we were required to pivot at the last minute to online learning. I am hopeful we will be in person soon! In the meantime, I was able to put together these simple cards to welcome each student to our course.

I knew that I wanted to include a book somehow and some nature element on this card. You can see the cards I designed last year for the course here. I used the open book this time from Den Sweet Den and coloured it with my favourite Tombow marker colour. I decided to pull out my Lawn Fawn Stitched Woodgrain Backdrop die and emboss it onto a heart shape from Close To My Heart.

I added in a scripty 'welcome' sign from Little Bundle to complete the card.

Paper: Solar White (Neenah); Kraft (Lawn Fawn); Coldpress watercolour paper (Canson)
Stamps: Den Sweet Den, Little Bundle (CTMH)
Ink: Archival Black, Black (CTMH)
Dies: Basic Hearts (CTMH); Den Sweet Den, Stitched Woodgrain Backdrop (Lawn Fawn)
Markers: 373 (Tombow)

 Here are the cards I made for our nephews to celebrate the arrival of the newest member of our family! Baby Jacob brings the total number of grandchildren on that side of the family to 10: 8 children earth side + 2 babies up in the stars.

 This January I am excited to be teaching my first university course! It will be online given this unique time and is a course about how to teach reading in our local teacher education program. Since we cannot get together in person to explore our class material, I have been putting together a course kit for students. I wanted to create a welcome card for students to go along with their course kit.