Friday again, gotta love it!

I have a couple of pictures and a story I want to share with my Unity peeps before I show you my projects for the week.  I am the activity director in a nursing home.  I'm always looking for ways to get kids into the nursing home to interact with residents, and looking for successful intergenerational projects for the 2 age groups to work on.  These pictures are of 11 elementary summer school students and about 8 nursing home residents making greeting cards for Operation Write Home on Wednesday morning.  We were able to make over 40 cards in about 1 1/2 hours of card making.  We had a blast!

And, here's a couple of cards I made last weekend.  It was a rainy Saturday, so I got to play with my new Unity kit of the month (the hexagon border).  I also used 2 Ippity kits.

 I colored this card using TH distress inks and a paint brush.

This flower was colored using my 4 Copic markers.  I tried some shading for the 1st time, and used my gray marker to chane the green on parts of the stem and flowers.  I still have Copic fever.  I've been researching the darn things every evening, trying to find the best deal, and trying to find info on the best started colors.  I got some helpful hints last week (thanks so much!)  if anyone else has advise, I'd love to hear from you.  Where do you buy your markers?  Did you start with a set or did you build your own?  Who's recommendations did you go with if you built your own?  Any help is appreciated!  Thanks for looking at my pix and reading my long post!