Personalized Thank You Cards

I think Thank You cards are an incredibly important thing.  I was raised sending Thank You cards for every gift I received.  Sadly, over the past year, I have fallen short on the Thank You cards.  It makes me sad and I really want to get back on track with them.  I also want to make sure our boys are raised knowing the importance of not only saying "Thank You" but also taking the time to write Thank You cards.  I have seen (and received a few) fill-in-the-blank Thank You cards for kids and thought they were a great idea for starting this habit for kids.  Since Robby obviously cannot write or even scribble on a piece of paper to express his gratitude to everyone who gave him a birthday present, I wanted to come up with a way to incorporate him in the card, even though I would be the one filling them out.  So, I decided to make my own fill-in-the-blank Thank You cards with his handprint!

I got this big stamp pad at Michael's and got his handprint on a piece of paper (much easier said than done, let me tell you!)

I made a template in Word for postcards.  I have a big box of postcard paper so I'm always looking for ways I can use them!

Then I scanned his little handprint, saved it as a .jpeg, edited it just a tad, and inserted the image into the document.

I had to shrink his handprint down a little so it would fit correctly.  I think I want to make these each year until he can write his own, so I will probably do them on half sheets of card stock in the future so it can be a full size hand print.  I imagine grandparents will enjoy them enough, they will want to keep them from each year!

Here's the finished product:

I also printed the return address on the back of each card, just to make addressing them a bit quicker.  I thought they turned out pretty cute!