This week just gone as part of the Senior Education Training process I had to organise just under 300 interviews for Year 10 parents and students. This meant using a team of heads of department, deputies and senior teachers to help parents and students go through the subject selection process and also their SETP- Great process great results but my gosh agggh the organisation. We interviewed through to almost 8.00pm every night last week - so tired.
When I sat down yesterday to plan the thank yous to the helpers I realised I had 25 people to thank for their involvement in the process. I wanted to do something nice but I didn't want to have to spend a lot of time or money on it too.
I flicked back through my starred items on google lines and found these two gems
Firstly this sweet hello card from Kirsty Neal of Ginger and George
It didn't quite fit what I was after so I edited it a bit to make it a "Thanks" flat card and printed 4 to a page
and then trimmed and rounded the corners
I could then write a personal note on the back for each person
Next I found these fabulous envelopes.made by Cathe Holden over at Just Something I Made- all gorgeous colours
but I knew I didn't want to print 25 full sheets of colour on my inkjet cartridge so I chose a couple of patterns that worked well in back and white and printed them on my laser printer using normal copy paper. I increased thor size - one per A4 sheet
trimmed them up
and glued them together following Cathe's instructions
I pounched out some little serrated circles using my martha punch ( thanks for the thousandth time Gigi! ) to create a litle seal for the back and to add a pop of colour .
Then tonight I filled them with the thank you note, a kit kat and a coffee sachet which I figure will be a nice treat for morning tea tomorrow. I wrote each persons name under the thank you on the label so I can easily distribute
I love that people share such great projects on their blogs which allow little things like this to come together so easily for others . I'm going to make a concerted effort to try to do this more myself as well. Thank you Kirsty and Cathe!
