Bananas For You!

It's the week of Valentine's Day and, in an effort to be crafty and creative, I decided to design my kids' Valentine's Day cards on my own. Celeste will be giving out infant banana cookies to her classmates, so I wanted to incorporate a monkey into her design. I googled around for Monkey phrases that were appropriate for Valentine's Day and settled on "I'm Bananas for You!"

I also wanted to keep it girly without going for the pink and red, so I chose a yellow gingham pattern and a teal polka dot pattern. Then I played around with a few fonts until I liked the result. I'm a font addict and seem to hoard all kinds of unique fonts, so any chance I get to use them is a win for me. The monkey was edited from a free printable I downloaded on Google only because my hubby didn't get a chance to do a custom monkey this time around. (We do have elephants, birds, dogs, cats, fish and a few other custom animal illustrations.)

Here's the result for Celeste's Valentine's Day printable:

I set it up to print four-up on an 8.5 x 11" piece of card stock, then cut them with a paper cutter. Hopefully next week, I'll have pictures of what they looked like all put together with the banana cookies and ribbon. 

Next up: Adrian's Car Valentines. 

Link to purchase on Etsy.