... my boy heads off to his very first sleep-away camp.  He'll be gone for two weeks!  I know he'll be fine... he'll be busy enough that he won't have time to miss us.  Its those of us who are left behind that I worry about

I'm hoping he'll write and to help that along... I made him some custom postcards for camp.  He's eight, so writing isn't really much of his thing.  I figured a big blank sheet of paper might be too daunting but a postcard would be managable for him.  I first went to the postal service's site to see what the rules and regulations are for postcards, picked a size and started working on them.  Given that I started this project a little late and have a lot going on, I opted to use pages from the Sportsmania mini album by Emily Merritt and Tiff Brady at wearestorytellers.com.  Oh wow.... did these help speed the process up!  I dropped in my photos, and after merging the layers, I dragged the album page onto my postcard sized canvas, added text and embellishments and flattened.  Super quick and easy!!  All that's left to do now is to have them printed on cardstock at the office supply store, cut them out and I'm done!

Here are a few of the ones I did...






The background papers and alpha came from the Sportsmania kit by Emily Merritt and Tiff Brady at wearestorytellers.com.  The foam stamp alpha is by Emily Powers at wearestorytellers.com.  And the fonts are arial and AL Old Remington.  Please excuse the spelling of camp with a "k"... the camp name starts with a "k" so any reference they make to camp or campers starts with "k" as well. 

Now... let's just hope he writes!! 

Tracie