Just wanted to share....

[jmc_in_disney]

I'm mostly a lurker (and learner!) here, but I wanted to share my most recent project! I'm the PA President at my son's school and this past Friday was our annual Teachers Luncheon. In years past, the PA Board used to decorate the board in the room where the luncheon was held, but in the last few years, the former Pres stopped doing that. I really wanted to go back to the idea of doing a theme and decorations, so I had decided in January that the theme would be "A Garden of Gratitude". I used the Cricut to make 280 flowers, which all the kids wrote thank you notes to their teacher on. Because I had to do so many, the flowers are really simple, but they were fun to do. Each grade level had a different style, so there were 6 different flowers used from WIMG. The tulips are also WIMG, and have the names of all the specials teachers & staff written on them. This past Tuesday I finally upgraded to the Expression so, the signs, title (though the first "A" is hard to see), tulips, sun, clouds and paper dolls (made to look like our principal and secretary) were all made with the Big E, which I love, love, love!

The sun & clouds are from Mickey & Friends, the letters are Plantin' (which I almost didn't keep, but I actuall love!) and obviously the people are from PD's. Everything else is WIMG.

Anyway, this was the final result of 2 months worth of work! I was very happy with how it came out and all the teachers were so touched!

http://jmcmurray.smugmug.com/gallery/4758538_Dfhpj

 

[clairemolly]

Very cute! I love my E also...you will have so much fun with the larger sizes!

Also,

I have only been here since January, but it is a great board!

 

[Kim1964]

What a great idea!!! I hope the staff appreciated all of your hard work.

Yet again, I wish I'd had a Cricut (either one) when I chaired the PTO. There are so many cool things I could done have back then!

 

[aroyer]

That is really adorable! What a great idea.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Adorable!!!

Another reason I'm requesting the big E for my BIRTHDAY!!!!

 

[party of 3]

OMG! how beautiful!!!! you did a fantastic job. i'm sure everyone loved it!

 

[wendydarling826]

Absolutely beautiful! As as a scrapper and a teacher, I would immediately recognize how much work went into this, and I would probably beg for one of the flowers to keep for my own scrapbook!

 

[jmc_in_disney]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! It was a lot of work, but so much fun to do!

Absolutely beautiful! As as a scrapper and a teacher, I would immediately recognize how much work went into this, and I would probably beg for one of the flowers to keep for my own scrapbook!

I think I forgot to mention that part of it - when the decorations come down (we're on spring break this week, so sometime next week), I'll wrap each Teachers flowers in green tissue paper and give it to them so that it looks like a bouguet of flowers!


I think next years theme is going to be "The Washington School Walk of Fame" so there will be lots of stars & film reels to cut out!

 

[Macca1111]

Super cute.