It would great to see you from start to finish working on the cards. I know I would enjoy watching you create.

Great happy mail. That wood card is really cool. AWESOME cards....Love them!

Beautiful spring time festiveness. Love that you left a peek at some of the original card text. Amazing colors...supercool doodling art.TFS!

I LOVE the way your cards came out & they look like they will be beautiful for a journal. So inspirational. Great job!

Yes, they do year round school in New Zealand. I've been and visited their schools.

I love your greeting card project! Messy free form painting like that is my favorite right now.

You always bring a smile, I love the Daddy Van's sound, I know it's coming but it still gets me each time. I love your Happy Mail, both had such unique items and I love it that they're from other countries. I think of you when I hear the expression go to your happy place, you know to calm yourself down and center yourself? I can picture you in a large room filled with things that make you happy, of course, the room is filled with bright colors and all of the walls and the floor is painted with doodles and collages and paint swatches...good heavens you might be my happy place!

Love LOVE Love!!!!

Yes they do have year around schools. Where I live in CA we also have year around school.

Your happy mail is amazing! Never seen it before either! I truly enjoyed watching your altered greeting cards! They look so great! Love the dimensional paint on them too!

Bless you. Making those cards looks like it would be very therapeutic. I would really like to see a process video for sure. The magazine looks wonderful, will have to check it out. Thank you so very much for sharing.

love it...can't wait to see your finished product.

Love those see through things. When we painted the outside of our home we took a regular picture then printed it on a transparency in coloring book mode. It is the same thing, but a bit of a process! Worked great though!

Love the goodies and the last share is a whole lot of happy! =D Janet

Love your greeting card journal idea. Beautiful work Shannon! And great inspiration

HELLO, love how you put all your shapes and your other touches together. This is beautiful art! This is your beautiful art, and I love it! Keep sharing your art with us, I want to continue to follow you, thanks

Shannon, the greeting cards are absolutely gorgeous. Please do a video. Thank you very much for sharing.

Fun happy mail! And I love your altered greeting cards! I love that same kind of messy fun art that looks so super cool in the end! :) TFS! Cathy

Shannon you have given me a ton of inspiration on these. I think I will sew art pieces to mine and pockets/tags/embellishments. And use sewing machine to sew together. Also some plastic sleeves. Yay!!

Shannon...you are one of the MOST creative people I've ever seen. Those cards are gorgeous!!! Please don't cover that beautiful art with Gesso...:-) Here I tossed all those greeting cards over the years when I could have been saving them. I have cut pieces of them to use in collage, but never thought to keep the entire card. The different shapes make them even more interesting. They will make a beautiful artist's book. Love the wood card also. How interesting!

Shannon Green, I found two in an antique shop, I'm so happy you liked it!

I get Frankie, every month as I love it so much. Smith's Journal is the 'male' version and we get it occasionally as well. They both have fantastic collage pages in them.

Love the Happy Mail! Could use some myself these days...Just lost a precious family member, and days are a bit gloomy. Looking forward to next weekend being a quieter weekend, and maybe some play time will help. Your videos always make me smile! Keep on shining, Shannon!

They turned out beautifully. I think I might cut them up and frame them. A whole wall of those up and down a stairway would be really interesting. I think maybe 5x7s. So love the new cards.

Bless you!!! Great happy mail!!! Another interesting idea !!!

Beautiful cards! Pretty colors! Nice happy mail! Tfs Hugs

OMG I so want to see a process video of you making those signatures! I'm in love with them. I too don't draw, not even a straight line, and i think i tend to doodle in the same way, just shapes, which i thought i was the only one, and that it was a bit weird, lol. I know that zentangle looks easy but can't wrap my head around it. This is something i think i could also do, but not sure where, how, to start. Loved the old card idea, who doesn't have tons of those, right, lol... (nice happy mail) TFS ~ L

When I taught school in MO, it was a year round school. They couldn't build buildings to keep up with the growth. It was the 6th fastest growing in the nation at the time. We all taught in different "cycles.

OH My GOODNESS WOW!! I LOVE That Pop-up micro wood art! WOW!! That's a really cool project with the cards. They're awesome. =)

Bless you!! :) love your project share!!

Bless you!! WOW!!! Those see through paint swatch cards are COOL!!! Cool stuff she sent you. =)

Bless you!

very nice happy mail!!

those cards are brilliant!!! i think if theres one thing ive learnt from you is that if it makes me happy, thats good enough for me!!! schools in nz are year round, but they have 4 decent sized breaks thru the year. our summer is in december, so school finishes at the end of the year (just before christmas), and doesnt start til first week of feb. we also have lotsa little breaks, anniversaries, nz holidays, easter.

I found this video from 8 years ago!!! Did you ever do a process video of your version of this? If so, can you direct me to it? If not, maybe it's time! 😜

Don't you do it... don't you DARE do it Shannon!!!!! Don't you smear white gesso on those deliciously colored Delightfully doodled cards of yours!!!! Theyyyyy areeee wonnnderrfull!!!!!! So just get comfy with your fear of white Pages and let em be! Lol I still love you! Chetta They really remind me of Native American Indian blankets!

Wow I see this is an old video but I've never seen it. The strange thing is I've been doing that very thing. The past 2 nights I've been cleaning out my cards. There are a few I can't part with and some I've saved for my art Journals. I never thought of painting them. I will think about that now. I've still got more to go through. 😊

What a great idea!

Hi Shannon, I love those see-through photos from New Zealand. To my knowledge, we don't have those here in the UK, either. I know you must visit the DIY stores to pick up paint swatches, but have you ever checked out the mini tester pots? I recently picked up 10 pots for £1 (about $1.50 US) They were all discontinued colors and were being taken off the shelves. BTW, I found these in a Wickes DIY stores over here, I knew them as a furniture company when I lived in California. The best paints are the vinyl ones as they have something in them that is similar to acrylics, so they seal. However, some of the other paints would work well for junk journaling. I recently saw some chalk paints in a sale and these are great for making Gesso. Thanks for sharing your greeting card alterations x

Well those ARE happy, aren't they? I love watching Robin Marie's 15 minute videos too. I really never thought of doing this with greeting cards, but it's a fabulous idea! I always feel kind of guilty just throwing them away. You know, like the ones you get from your dentist's office. Like I want to keep those. But now I just might! Thanks for sharing!

wow, im now obsessed with that magazine! Where can I get one? You mentioned a website? Do tell! I need to hunt one down!

So yummy. TFS.

Some of your cards had interesting shapes and cut-outs. They look finished to me because some of the backgrounds are beautiful without adding penwork. Ah individual signature would be nice to include in Happy Mail.

There are some public schools in the U.S. that do a "year round" school year. My kids attended one in Kentucky and my cousin's girls attended one in Alabama. In both schools, the kids went for 6 weeks and then had 2 weeks off. Kinda crazy to get on a good routine with that schedule I have to say. They also had a summer break, but it was not as long. They usually got out of school in early June and went back in early August. I have been homeschooling my kids now for 13 years and we do school year round. We have shorter days in the summer (1/2 days or less) and during the summer we only focus on four subjects math, english, spelling, and penmanship. We take our longest break from school during Christmas. Other breaks are scattered out here and there throughout the year whenever I decide I need a break...LOL!!

Do you every sleep? How do you get so much done and done well? Your an inspiration!

Did you gesso cards first?

Hey !!!!! Hold a Frankie in your hand? lol

such lovey emphermra