End of Year Teacher Gifts Part II

These are the cards I made to go with the calendars I posted last time. All the daycare people got the flower card and the teachers got the blackboard cards. They both turned out so cute!

I saw the blackboard ideas in one of my old Stampin' Sucess magazines. I altered it & added my own twist to it :)

Ingredients:

Basic Black, Creamy Caramel, Ruby Red, Whipser White, Chocolate Chip - paper; VersaMark, Creamy Caramel - ink; First Day - stamp set; Corner rounder, White embossing powder, Ruby Red 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain ribbon, Round Tab punch, Stampin' Up Billboard Sizzlit strip die - accessories;

To make the red tops of the apple, I punched out a tab in ruby red paper then slid the tab back into the punch from the bottom so that only the top 1/4" was inside the punch. Next I punched again to get just the little sliver of red. The stem & the seeds were just cut with sissors. Both the edges of the black board & the edges of the apples were inked with Creamy Caramel.


This card was also inspired by a card I saw in Stampin' Success.

Ingredients:

Not Quite Navy, Whipser White, Green Tea DSP - paper; Not Quite Navy (craft), Old Olive (craft), Baja Breeze - ink; En Francais, Botanical Blooms - stamp set; Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, rhinestone jewel, Old Olive ribbon, clear embossing powder, distressing kit - accessories;

To get the glossy look to the flowers I stamped them with craft ink & then embossed them with clear embossing powder. I love the way it looks on the handwriting background.

End of Year Teacher Gifts Part I

My oldest son had three teachers last year, my younger son had both a teacher & multiple daycare caregivers & they have a bus driver. Thank you gifts were a bit complicated this year :)

In an attempt to keep the price down as well as give a nice gift, I decided I would make "school year" calanders that started in July and ended in June. I wasn't sure what to use as a calendar base but I found some great 12 x 12 cork tiles at Wal-Mart. I could slice them down the middle with an exacto knife & have perfect 12 x 6 bases for my calenders. I also made cards but I'll share those in another post :)

Here's the calendar

I think it turned out great & even with all the embellishments, I think they cost around $10 each. I printed the month tags from Word & then stamped the month name, some decorative stamps & distress ink on each tag. It's a little difficult to see but 10 of the tags have white circle "reinforcements" around the hole at the top. I really think this little added bit, with the distress ink, made the tags. The big flower to the right was made by punching a scalloped circle, poking a hole to mark the center & then snipping down from each side of the scallops towards the poked center.

July Kit

As usual, I had a lot of fun with this month's kit. I'm always amazed at how much stuff is in one kit! I made a little boy's birthday card and four 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook pages with this kit. Of course, this means I still have lots of paper left so I'll have to get busy & print more pictures :)
The July kit is Cosmo Cricket's Girl Friday from www.createdwithpaper.com.

June Kit

June's kit from www.createdwithpaper.com is BoBunny's Roughin' It Kit. This kit is so cute! The tree paper (In the Woods) is my absolute favorite. I think I've used it on every page I've made with this kit so far :) I was still sorting through old photos (as I've been doing for almost a year now) and decided to try and 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook about a camping trip we went on with my sister & my brother-in-law. Serendipitiously, I got June's kit just after I'd finished the title page for my new album. The video includes two of the pages I made for that album & I'll post a few more after the video. Enjoy!

Mama-razzi - May Kit

May's kit was BoBunny's Mama-razzi from www.createdwithpaper.com. I was super excited when I saw this kit in the catalogue!! You all know how much I love vintage stuff & all the old cameras really got my creative juices flowing. The colours are great for little boys, so no worries about finding the perfect picture & paper combination! I think the new blackboard chipboard from Cosmo Cricket is really cool. The photobox in the video was really quick & easy to make! Enjoy...

Old Posts :)

This was a birthday card for my sister last fall! I really love how it turned out! This black & white paper from Stampin' Up! was soooo great! The Autumn Harvest set is also one of my most favorite.


Ingredients:

Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, Whisper White, Night and Day DSP, Pumpking Pie Prints DSP - paper; Basic Black - ink; Autumn Harvest, Baroque Motif - stamp sets; Corner rounder, black & white ribbon, Stampin' Pastels - accessories;

Mother's Day Card

I was going through a folder of old projects a little while ago & found this Mother's Day card. Isn't it great?

Ingredients:

Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Rose Re, Whipser White, Regal Rose Prints DSP - paper; Regal Rose, Certainly Celery - ink; Baroque Mofits - stamp set; Pretties Kit (half pearls), Certainly Celery ribbon, white rub-ons, Swirly Sizzlits - accessories;