thumb prints to the rescue

Thanks to my husband's family who lives out of town I am getting better about thinking of holidays and birthday's early on to get cards in the mail on time.
This week I've been thinking about Mother's Day.
I don't buy cards, typically I make them or I have my kids make them. This becomes challenging when you have multiple cards to send out. I want everyone to get special mail! It's so fun!
I have many wonderful women in my life, only one of which is my mother. I wanted to think of a way to show my appreciation to these aunts, grandma's, friends...as well as to my own mom and mother-in-law for Mother's Day.
I came up with this simple idea.
I got out the paint and I painted the little thumbs of my little ones
Then I had them press their thumbs on a piece of white card stock
First we all did red, then we all did yellow
That was it! It was easy and even Emmett was able to participate without painting the whole house.

After the kids went to bed I got out my black sharpie and drew on the thumb prints to create lady bugs and bees.
Get it, "lady bugs" for all the special "ladies" in our life.

That's it. I cut out enough for 12 cards from only 3 sheets of card-stock. I glued the white cutouts to orange card-stock and made sure they fit into the envelopes I already had.
Project accomplished.

I just realized that this same idea would be super cute next year for Easter. The thumb prints could be the eggs and you could draw a basket or just leave them in the grass....