An Altered 'E'!!

The letter 'E' is my most favourite letter in the whole alphabet!! Why, you may ask? Well it is the first letter in several of my favourite words....English, which is my favourite subject (being the bookworm that I am).....England, which is where my parents are from......Evening, which is my favourite time of day.....Ecstatic which is how I feel when I make a really awesome card or scrapbook page....Eggs, which are my favourite breakfast food....but mostly it is my favourite letter because it begins the name of my effervescent and enchanting daughter's name: Emileigh Elizabeth!!! Heehee! Like you couldn't guess!!

So today's Technique Lover's Challenge on SCS was to make an altered item for a teacher as an end of the year gift. Well, Emileigh is in high school now and has several teachers, so we don't do that ritual anymore. So instead I decided to make Emileigh a little gift since she had a great midterm report card recently.

I got this wooden 'E' at Target recently in the clearance section for 49 cents!! Can you believe that?? I chose some super funky paper by My Mind's Eye (I think that's who makes it...the back of the paper doesn't say....don'tcha hate that??!) and found some paint and mod podge that I had forgotten about and went to town! I painted the back and sides of the wood with ivory craft paint and then mod podged the whole thing. Then I cut out the 'E' template in the patterned paper and sponged the edges with close to cocoa craft ink. I adhered it with mod podge again and coated the cover of it too. After it dried, I sanded the edges and added some yummy ribbons, Prima flowers and a rhinestone brad!! I really like the way it turned out.

When Emmy came home from school, she came into my craft room, saw the 'E' on my table, looked at me kinda sideways and said oh so sweetly, 'Is that for meeeeee?'. Makes it all worthwhile, ya know???