Teacher Gift 2011

My son really enjoyed grade 6 this year and a large part of that is because he had an awesome teacher!  So I wanted to share our appreciation by getting her a little gift.  I saw an example of a card like this on Jennifer McGuire's blog and decided it would be perfect. 

The pencil is altered since it actually has a "Sign Here" and dotted line inside it.  I deleted that when stamping and added lines to create that classic wooden pencil effect instead.

The sentiment is created on the computer and I even dry embossed some lines around the edge of each card to finish them off. 

I hope she liked the present because my son got her again for Grade 7!  He is really excited about that and so are we!

Thanks for dropping by for a visit.  Have a great day!

Donelda

Teacher's Apples

You might remember THIS post when I was doing my strawberry week.   Well, here is the card that I mentioned that was a similar layout but made with apples instead of strawberries. 

These apples are very easy to create.  Punch a circle of light yellow cardstock.  Sponge on a few colors of read being sure to leave the "hightlight" part.  Add a hand cut leaf and stem that are also sponged with the appropraite color! 

Truthfully, you could use any fruit or vegetable that you want: lemons, bunches of grapes, oranges, carrots, pears (sorry Susan!!), peaches ... just cut the shape to be appropraite and sponge appropriately!! 

The rest of the card is very straight forward.  The letters are from Trajan Monogram Set (Papertrey Ink) and the sentiment is from Limitless Labels (Papertrey Ink).

Thanks for dropping in. 
Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #93 - Felt - Teacher Apple

It's that time of year, when school is winding down and time to think about thanking our teachers for all the work they did with our children. So, when I saw that the Loonie Challenge this week was to use felt I decided to try punching a piece of red felt.

I heat embossed the apple outline onto black paper. Then I added the blue strip of paper that was punched with my Bind It All (Zutter). I punched a circle out of some grid paper (no name on the paper, sorry) to hold my focal. The apple was punched (Martha Stewart) out of some red felt. The little button came from a set of square buttons (Making Memories I think). Finally, the sentiment - simple and straight forward!!

Stamps Used: Teacher's Apple (Papertrey Ink).

I can't wait to see what the Loonie Girls did with their felt ...

Jewels, Dee, Char, Regan, Wendy, Maria

Thanks for dropping in ... again!!

Donelda

Teacher Gifts

Obviously I made these forever ago but I have just gotten around to posting this.

I made these books for all of the teachers at my son's school and the cards for all of the support staff (educational assistants, secretaries). The books are actaully a journal for the teachers to reflect back on their teaching career. I used Nichole's example HERE as a guide but changed the questions a bit (to make them more Canadian and more relevant). I bought the books at Michael's. They actually have some letters or something under the main image but I knew I'd cover that up with my own creativity!!

I don't normally go so "all out" with gifts at the end of the year but my son is leaving that school and moving on to the Middle School. So, I made one journal for every teacher and left a message on the first page thanking them for making our experience at their school so great. Same with the cards, I made one for all the support staff thanking them for their part. It is really a great school and we will certainly miss the postivie atmosphere they provided over the last 5 years!!

Well, gotta go make a card. Enjoy your day!!

Donelda

Teacher Cards

This card was totally inspired and cased from Alli Miles' card that you can see HERE. If you haven't visited Alli's blog, you definately should poke around there for a while. She is an amazing card maker!!

One big difference is that I don't own a great apple stamp like hers so I had to make my apples. To make these apples, I cut a 1 1/4" circle out of So Saffron cardstock. Then I used my scissors to cut a slight dent in the top. I used a sponge dauber to rub on Ruby Red ink leaving some of the yellow showing through for the apple's highlight. The stem and leaves are also hand cut. The letters are stamped with versamark and embossed with white embossing powder!!

To the card, I added some apple soap and an apple shaped note pad for an end of year thank you gift! I hope the teachers liked it!!

Supplies: Cardstock-Kraft, Basic Black, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi (all Stampin' Up!),lined designer paper (unknown); Ink-Ruby Red, Basic Black, Versamark (all Stampin' Up!); Stamps-Trajan Monogram Ed, Limitless Labels (both Papertrey Ink); Other: white embossing powder, sponge dauber.

Thanks for visiting.

Donelda