Today is Pi Day and I thought this frog looked much like a professor, or at least math nerd, teaching about Pi.
This is what you need to know about Pi, on this Pi Day:
It’s about circles! The distance around the circle is the circumference.
The distance across the circle through the center is the diameter.
The ratio of the circumference to the diameter for all circles is pi.
Pi is an infinite decimal. It never stops and never repeats.
I’m sure I knew about Pi once upon a time ago, like in high school math class, but that’s as far as it goes…except that when my youngest son was in high school taking calculus, he memorized pi out to 500 digits in his Calculus class! He had a great teacher and this was something the teacher did every year. My son held the record for at least several years, but then he heard someone else broke it! He got a Pi t-shirt, too! He had some system for memorizing that many numbers. I still can’t imagine how he did it! I think the teacher’s young little daughter was there that day and was quite impressed. Maybe she asked for his autograph or something, I don’t remember. He was probably more amused by that than that he knew 500 numbers of pi!
In case you want to get started for next year so you can show off to your friends, here is a website, Pi Trainer, that will help you!
Anyway, I thought this frog from So Hoppy Together looked like a professor or really smart guy who could teach about Pi! The card base is Old Olive with a layer of Basic Black. I stamped the frog and colored him with Stampin’ Blends markers, one of my favorite things to do!
To stamp pi, I happened to think of the Make a Difference Stamp Set which has individual letters, numbers, and a few phrases in it. I managed to get the numbers lined up pretty straight on a block and stamped. I had to go back and put in the extra “1”. I thought it worked out pretty well.
Then I noticed that one of the sentiments in the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set was “You Can Do Anything” and I thought how appropriate for this card! I stamped the words, die cut with an oval framelit die and layered it on a scalloped oval die. Couldn’t resist adding some “bling” with the two Glitter Enamel Dots.
My son is coming home this weekend so I will give him this card so he knows we were still remembering and celebrating one of his favorite moments of high school.
You can celebrate Pi Day by stamping some circles or smart-looking frogs or maybe even baking a real PIE! Or make a Pi card like this one and send it to one of your math friends!
Be sure to shop Stampin’ Up! this weekend coming up. More and more products are selling out, both from Sale-A-Bration and also the Occasions Catalog. The longer you wait, the higher the chance you can’t get something you wanted. The Cupcake Framelits and the Bunny Builder Punch are two of the most recent casualties, not to mention a problem with the die manufacturer possibly creating a quick retirement of certain dies. The good thing is Stampin’ Up! knows how to choose products that are popular with everyone, but sometimes it makes for supply problems. If you have any specific questions about what’s available and what’s not, just ask.