The Power of a Card: CAS Blog Four

My parents have always placed an emphasis on making handmade cards. While this sounds nice, I’ve always dreaded birthdays and holidays because of the extra task.

Fairly recently I’ve decided to extend this gift to a few of my close friends. I was surprised by their reactions to my homemade cards, because I’ve always grown up with them from my siblings. But to other people, they can really mean a lot.

Despite the amount of work that I’ve allowed to build up (including an essay from Mr. McCormick that I still don’t know it I’m going to finish), I reached out Mary and John with the idea that we could create some cards for our entire IB class. We all had to adjust our schedule in order to work together.

Not only did this test my ability to get a lot of work done in a small amount of time, but this also forced me to work up the nerve to drive myself (in this case) to the library. This is a big deal to me because of how anxiety inducing driving is for me, but back to the cards.

John and I were able to go to the library on the 12th. Mary was busy, but she made an effort to make some cards at home. We arrived at around 10:15 am and entered a private room to get to work. We made a list of all of the people we had to make cards for and divided them equally among us. Getting started was somewhat difficult because we didn’t know where to begin.

It ended up taking over an hour for each card. We wanted to make each one special and personalized. While I based the outside of mine on different memorizes with each person John decided to draw a special plant for everyone. We even took the time to write personalized messages inside each one.

We didn’t finish until around 3 pm, five hours after originally getting to the library. Not only did we gain some artistic skill, we also gained some penmanship skill and writing skill.

We haven’t delivered any of the cards yet, but I hope everyone likes them. I’m left to ponder the power and ability a personal gift and words have. I truly believe they will be able to positively impact people, even if that just means making someone’s day a little bit better.