Making Greetings

Iam in love with these new - well, new to me - scrapbook greeting cards kits by Basic Grey. Each kit includes everything you need to make 8 cards, plus extra pieces to use to embellish the insides or to use on any project of your choosing. All of the pieces are numbered so they are so simple to put together. Maybe a little too simple for those of us who love to get the creative juices flowing, but sometimes it is nice to not have to think and for perfectionists like my daughter, it is so beneficial in reducing the stress factor. Remember the old paint by numbers sets? Well, this is basically scrapbooking by number. There are even black-and-white detailed instructions and the packaging is a full color display of all the completed cards. So no mater what your style: like to read and follow instructions, like to follow a color sample, or like to just figure it out buy punching out all of the numbers - this card set seems to work for everyone.

I was lucky enough to be able to take a class with a close friend at a local Archivers. While putting together our cards, I thought what a fun activity it would be to do with our two teenage daughters. Well, we have not been able to work out the timing on that, but I was able to set aside a day during our break this week - a wet and blustery day - and do a kit with Sierra. I had another kit I got at the clearance scrapbook place for under $2, so I set Chloe up to work on that one. Of course, she ran with it and used all of her extra pieces to make several cards of her own - she is just bursting with creativity. We all had a lot of fun. There is nothing better than being creative and encouraging it in others. Plus, there was ice cream as a reward for all of our hard work.

The kits are $14.99 at Archivers. If you use there 30% off coupon, which why would you not, cuz they email them to ya almost every week, it runs about $1.31 per card excluding tax. I know I pay way more than that when I get cards, and let me tell ya, we have a lot of cards to get.