School teacher card

As promised, I am back with the card I made for Jess' school teacher. All the parents decided to put in and get Mrs M a gift voucher instead of giving a lot of small gifts. I volunteered to make the card - because "that's what I do" - make cards!.

I knew I wanted to use the Holiday Lineup stamp set (which was kindly leant to me by my good friend Sandra). I really couldn't decide what image I liked the best, and since it was to be from the whole class, I thought a large card would be good. After a little deliberation I decided to make a tri-fold card out of a full sheet of A4 cardstock. The reason behind this was that I could use all three images and we could write our message on the inside middle panel and all the kids could write their names on the two panels on either side.

This is what the card ended up looking like.
I was really pleased with how it turned out. I used the polka dot background stamp with versamark ink all over the front and coloured the images with a blender pen and my inkpads. I mounted the images on different sides of the card, this is what it looked like when opening it.

I was initially going to make a gift card wallet to go with the card, but was really happy with the card and realised there was more than enough room on the middle panel inside to fit a gift card. To place the gift card inside, I used the slit punch to make slits on three sides at the bottom, and then slid the gift card inside them. Unfortunately I didn't take a photo of the inside when it was all done!

It was gratefully received by Mrs M and I am sure that she will enjoy some retail therapy during the school holidays.

Next time ... mmm not sure yet, but hopefully will have time to post something else this week, before Christmas is upon us.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamps: Holiday Lineup, Polkadot background

Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White

Ink: Black stazon, Versmark, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Blush Blossom, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Pumpkin Pie

A very long time between posts

Well things have taken a little longer than I had planned to get back to blogging, what with moving, being sick and all the end of year Christmas stuff going on ... I just haven't had time to sit down at the computer (oh and having lost the camera cable for the past 3 weeks sure didn't help, but I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I opened a box and there it was!).

With christmas fast approaching I have been forced to do quite a bit of creating over the past week, so I have plenty of new things to show you.

The first is the cute little christmas cards we made to put on the candy canes for everyone at school and daycare (57 in total!).

They were very simple to make, but looked really effective. I just made a little 2 3/4" card and stamped the christmas tree and Merry Christmas sentiment from Season of Joy onto it. I then used the slit punch on each end of the back of the card and made a slit, which we then threaded the candy cane through (sorry I forgot to take a photo of that part). The kids then wrote their message on the inside of the front cover and voila, a cute little gift for everyone.

Here is a picture of the pile for Jessica's classmates.



Next time I will show you a card I made for Jessica's teacher using the new Holiday Lineup stamp set.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky