Busy Girl

Whew I've been a busy girl. 

In my other life I'm a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator,

as well as full-time Wife and Mom.

You probably know the deal.

Anyway, I've currently got a big project to do for the display boards at Convention in July.

(that's the Stampin' Up! Convention), so I've been really, really busy.

And I've two weeks until my report cards are due - oh yeah, so much to think about.

I'm not stressed!!!!???

Who am I kidding.

Anyway, I'm sure you're not interested in my complaining.

You're probably wondering why I started this post with a photo of a graduation cap.

well...

One of my most popular posts ever, was this little tutorial on how to make this cute

little graduation cap. 

Click Here

or click on the photo to go to my papercrafting blog and get the free tutorial.

It's pretty easy.  If you don't have the punches that I used, you will get the general idea for

how to piece together you own out of your own shapes.

I realize that many of you who teach south  of me are heading towards summer break and "graduation"  Kindergarten Graduation is my favourite.  I used to teach Kindergarten

and I always had a little graduation ceremony in my class during the last week of school.

We'd make paper graduation caps and sing some farewell songs, and then have

cookies and milk (or tea) with the parents and grandparents.

Always a cute event!

Watermarks for Sale

Something that is big with crafting blogs is watermarking your photos.  It's really simple to do. It ensures that nobody can claim your work for their own.  If you create lessons or tutorials, you can also watermark the text. 

Also, I have noticed that sometimes I will copy a photo to my desktop from someone else's blog because it shows a fabulous teaching idea.  But when I go to share it on my own blog, I don't have the link saved and if there was a watermark on the photo I would be able to easily credit the person who came up with the idea first.

I often put watermarks on my own work.  It's easy to do with Photoshop.

But if you don't have Photoshop, there's a free program called GIMP which is fabulous.

All you need to do is google "GIMP" to find the link.

And if you're a scrapbooker, any digital scrapbook program will be able to use PNG files, which are what I am selling.  Personally I use My Digital Studio and GIMP for all my digital images.

I have come up with a few designs myself.  If you are interested in putting watermarks on your work.  I can add your text to the designs below.  Some of them are specifically for teaching blogs, and others are better for crafting blogs. 

I also offer them in both White and Beige.  You can purchase one colour for $3, or both colours for $5  Scroll down for the Paypal button below and click on the arrow to chose which type of watermark you want.  Once you are in Paypal, please make sure to put the text you want in the 'message to seller' window or I won't know what you want your watermark to say.  Also, please make sure that your paypal is connected to an email that I can send your image to, or message me and give me your correct email.

If you want a customized design I can work with you for $10 to create your own image.

Click on the photo below, or scroll down for more details about each design.

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Get Your Personalized Watermark

white$3.00 USD beige$3.00 USD one of each color$5.00 USD

New FREEBIE product on TPT !!!!

I'm totally excited about this new product I just posted on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

And the best part????

It's FREE!!!!!

This is a SCIENCE unit great for any animal study/ biology unit for primary

AND

It's a great unit for teaching beginning Critical Thinking Skills.

Here's a few sneak peeks at the pages.

There are labelling ideas.



Some Language Arts ideas...

Some Art ideas...

And scope and sequence and making decisions ideas.

Please download this FREE product and please let me know what you think about it.

I have plans to make many more units on this theme and I'd love to hear your feeback.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

FOR FREE!!!!!