Teacher thank you cards

 

 

As it will soon be end of term here, it's time to start thinking about teacher cards and gifts.

These are some cards I made for the children's teachers but didn't get uploading them.

 

I made matching gifts too which I'll share tomorrow.

 

Thanks for visiting :)

Sarah xx

Christmas treat bags

Good morning everyone,

 

I hope your weekend went well.

It's my turn again to create a project for Creative Craft World's

Christmas Countdown.

 

I like to make the children's teachers a little handmade gift at Christmas,

so this year I thought I would make some pretty packaging for some chocolates.

 

and here they are....

 

They are very easy to make!

 

You just take a cello bag (it's better if you can get one with a gusseted bottom or one with card in it like I have) and fill with chocolates.

It's very tempting having chocolates on my desk and I have to say they are YUMMY!!

 

For this bag, I just tied the top with ribbon and then made some toppers

with snowflakes cut out with my Silhouette Cameo.

Next, I cut two wooden skewers to size and coloured them with Copics.

Then layered the snowflakes with the stick in the middle and finished it with a button and some gems.

The banner with the sentiment was also cut out with the Silhouette,

wrapped around the stick and held in place with wet glue.

 

Regular readers of my blog may recognise this little gingerbread man from HERE.

 

I used the same cutting file and just reduced it in size before cutting him out of kraft card.

I layered two lenghs of Christmas paper together (one narrower than the other) and wrapped them around the bag, with the join at the front.

I covered the join with the gingerbread man, popping him up with foam pads.

The banner was made with matching paper with the sentiment on one side

and the to/from details on the other side along with a matching button.

 



 This 'Merry Christmas' ribbon is available to buy at Next!

 

 The back of the bags

 

The little banner - on one side 'Happy Christmas', on the other it's personalised with the teacher's name.

A wooden skewer, trimmed to size and coloured with a red Copic pen.

 

Supplies list

cellophane bags ~ with a gusset or a firm bottom (teehee...)

I got mine from a chocolate factory.

ribbon

chocolates ~ I used Thorntons Praline melts and Caramel melts

wooden skewers

various Christmas papers

buttons and gems

 

I hope you have enjoyed these little treat bags today,

and if you pop back tomorrow I'll have a link to Lou's blog where she will have a tutorial for a Christmas journal.

 

I'll also have a little project of my own that I made way back in the summer

but I'm only able to share it now, as it had to be kept secret!

 

Once again, thank you for stopping by today,

and I'll be catching up with you all later :)

Take care,

Sarah xx

 

I'd like to enter these in the following challenges:

MIM ~ always anything goes

Crafty Bloggers Network ~ Christmas anything goes

Forever Friends ~ ribbon and/or twine 

 

Card and box gift set for teacher

Good Morning!

I'm back again with the little gift Phoebe gave to her teacher yesterday.

It was really fun to make and is made with a cut file from My Time Made Easy.

Using the Cameo I cut the box from a sheet of 12x12" yellow card and before assembling it I added a 2" strip of Cosmo Cricket 'Material Girl' paper along the bottom. Next I added a strip of 'apple' patterned ribbon.

Following the instructions sent with the file I taped the box together and curled the petals at the top with a bone folder.

It's best to use a really strong double sided tape for the box ~ I use this one.

 I filled the box with sweets and tied the top closed with 3 lengths of Divine twine.

I cut two apples with the Cameo and layered the little pieces together adding some detail with Stampin' Up markers.  Then I glued them to the back and front of the pencil top.

 I added text to the little banner using print and cut with the Cameo and wrapped it around the pencil. This is the text on the back.

I used matching paper for the card, and the Wryn image and sentiment are from Tiddly Inks.

I coloured the image with Copics and then fussy cut around it.

Next I cut a white rectangle from white card, sponged distress inks (Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick) around the edges and layered the Wryn image on top with foam pads.

I added glamour dust to the icing on the cupcake and glossy accents to the cherry on her head.

(although you can't see it in the photo very well!)

I also cut the sentiment with an oval nestabilities die and sponged it with the same distress inks while still in the die.

Before layering the card together, I tied seam binding around the measuring tape paper and popped a red button on the bow.

The card is 6"x6" and the box is just slightly taller.

It's just a simple gift but I wanted to let Mrs Lockhart know that Phoebe really enjoyed school this year ~ and that means a lot to me!

  She has taught primary 3 for quite a few years and then had to change to teach primary 1 this year so it can't have been easy!

Thanks for coming to visit again today!

I better try and get something done before I've to start the school runs ~ the day goes so quick doesn't it?

Hope you're having a good one :)

Take care

Sarah xx

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

MIM ~ anything goes linky party

Scrapbook Sisters ~ anything goes

City Crafter Challenge ~ make a gift

PTT ~ anything goes

Bunny Zoes ~ girls girls girls

Daisy Doodles ~ anything goes

My Grafico ~ bright summer colours

Sentimental Sundays ~ cute and girly

The Squirrel & the Fox ~ make it sparkle

Great Impressions ~ die cuts or punches

Creative Belli ~ anything but a card (everything is old!)

Teacher card and gift

Good Afternoon!

Only a day and a half of school left and then no more packed lunches or homeworks to do

for 9 whole weeks :))

As the children have given their gifts to the teachers, I can now share them here.

This is what Caleb gave to his.

He has had a temporary teacher since Easter as his usual teacher went off on maternity leave.

It's the first time he's had a male teacher and he has loved it. It has also been a real change for me to make a male themed card and present!

 The image is from Tiddy Inks and I coloured it with Copics

Then I cut it out with a rectangle nestie and the blue layer with a scalloped nestie.

The papers are from a gorgeous Me and My Big Ideas paper pad.

 I added shiny card candy to the top of the banner.

The sentiment is computer generated using 'bracketfeet' font.

 This adorable little mouse is included as an extra when you buy the 'genius' digi stamp.

I added the sentiment from a Stampin' Up set positioning it with the stamp-a-ma-jig.

This is a box I made with the Cameo! 

You can also buy the file for other machines or print a pdf pattern and cut it out yourself.

You can buy it at My Time Made Easy.

 I used 2 sheets of Bazzill embossed dot card to make the box and Me and My Big Ideas paper for the t-shirt.

 I added text to the badge using print and cut with the Cameo and cut extra layers in white and blue card.

I printed 'from Caleb' in size 6 font on the computer and used the SU jewellery tag punch to cut it out.

Then tied Divine twine around the box.

 I layered the bottom of the box with tissue paper and filled with chocolate eclair sweets.

Silly me forgot to take a photo of the box opened!

 This last photo gives an idea of the size.  Sometimes it's hard to tell isn't it?

The card is approx 6"x 6" and the box is roughly the same height and is approx 2" deep.

We originally were going to go with a shirt and tie idea but the teacher is young so we thought this would suit him better :)

Now that the workbooks are coming home from school we've been having a good laugh at some of Caleb's sentences until I came across this one....

'There is loads of fluff under my mat' ......LOADS!!!!

Seeing my horrified expression Caleb meekly said,

'Well I had to think of a sentence with the word fluff in it'.....

Thank you for stopping by my blog today!

I haven't got caught up on commenting yet as I've been making a project for a blog hop on 3rd July.

I am excited about it and I hope you'll love my project when you see it too!

I'll be back tomorrow with the gift set for Phoebe's teacher.

Take care :)

Sarah xx

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Daisy Doodles ~ anything goes
Crafty Boots ~ sport
Desmet Designs ~ for the men & boys
Divas by Design ~ die cuts
Paper Make-Up Stamps ~ anything goes (must use digi)
Incy Wincy ~ anything goes
Love to Create ~ anything goes
Cutie Pie challenge ~ one for the boys
Robyn's Fetish ~ no flowers anywhere
Allsorts ~ dies to die for
Creative Belli ~ anything but a card (entering the box only)
Make it Monday ~ anything goes linky party
Simon Says Stamp ~ anything but a card

Daisy with present

Good Morning ~ I hope you weren't rained out this weekend!

We've had such a contrast to the weather on the mainland, it's been lovely and sunny here.

I have another Daisy card to share today and the colours on this one are a lot more muted compared to the last one!

I started with A4 white card scored in half, landscape style.

I covered the front with bazzill kraft card and inked around the edges with seedless preserves distress ink.

The DP is by Fancy Pants and the

image is from digistampboutique . I coloured her with Copics.

 The flourishes are cut with a Sizzix die and the flowers are Prima.

The ticket is cut with a TH ticket decorative strip die and stamped with a Printworks birthday stamp.

The responses I got at home about this card ranged from:

Lydia ~ it's cool Mum...

Richard ~ it's not your usual style....

Caleb ~ I like anthing you make Mum...(he doesn't like to offend...)

Phoebe ~ Who made that card?  lol

It's for a teenager so I hope she likes it!

Thank you for visiting today and hello to my new followers!

You're very welcome:)

Take care

Sarah xx

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges :

Make it Monday ~ anything goes

Little Claire ~ Spots and Dots

Sentimental Sundays #100 ~ Cards for kids

Opus Gluei ~ use flourishes

CI Paints ~ flowers

SSDS ~ Birthday

Love to Create ~ buttons and flowers
Digistamp Boutique ~ April anything goes (with DSB image)

Teacher Gift and handmade bag

There's a lot of photos....

Covered chocolate bar

Covered Notebook

Close up of raised leaves on the card

Altered Bag

Scrunched Flower

Caleb's teacher has been off school for a couple of months and we didn't think she would be back before the end of term but he came home from school on Friday and said she would be there on Monday!

I didn't have a gift for her (and because Caleb likes her so much) I had to rustle this up very quickly at the weekend. I didn't have time to make a bag but I had some plain brown paper bags and altered one with matching papers. The back of the bag is the same as the front without the flower.

I used the same paper and die cuts that are listed in yesterday's post :)

Take care and thanks for stopping by today!

Sarah x

End of Term ~ Teacher Gifts

It's hard to believe it's the end of June and that also means end of term here in Northern Ireland :) Yippee!

These are the cards and gift bags I made for Phoebe's teacher and Nursery assistant. 

bag cut from template

bag cut with the Craft Robo

 
The paper is K&Co Carolyn Gavin Greenhouse collection (I love all the little pink apples!)  The sentiments were all computer generated.  The die cuts are made with Sizzix and Cuttlebug dies cut with the Cuttlebug and the little bag above is cut out with the Craft Robo. The card to match was cut out using the Sizzix bigz clear scallop die. The scrunched flowers were made using the nestabilities blossom dies. - I don't know what I'd do without my Cuttlebug!!

Stamps used ~
Penny Black - little girl
Wendy Vecchi - alphabet
Inkadinkado - ticket

Thanks for stopping by today ~ Check back tomorrow for Caleb's teacher's gift.
Sarah x

Clean & Simple FTL87 sketch

A quick card today!

I'm always full of good intentions when it comes to making cards on time but usually end up doing it at the last minute  :(  not good for stress levels!

So just for a change I thought I'd  be really organised (lol) with Teacher thank you cards for June using this lovely sketch from Clean & Simple 

The red apple is darker in reality!

Supplies
White card
DP - DCWV school stack
Stamp - Imaginisce
Brilliance Inks
Chipboard apple - Sizzix original die / paper pieced
White gel pen
Nestabilites circle/scalloped circle dies
Scoring lines scored using Scor-pal

Thanks for visiting today :)
Sarah x

Belated Happy New Year! + Teacher's cards and Gifts

Hi!  I haven't had much time lately to update this blog.... Hope you all had a Great Christmas and will have a Very Happy 2010.

We had a lovely Christmas although Phoebe had a perforated ear drum a few days before it, but seeing her presents cheered her up :) 
We've been confined to the house for a couple of weeks with all the ice and snow but DHL were still able to deliver a parcel today....it was Sizzix dies from the mega sale sizzix.co.uk had over Christmas, so I have some lovely new dies to play with :)

Before Christmas I said I would post photos of the presents/cards I made for the teachers, so here are some of them.  I stamped the clear bags with various snowflake stamps using Stazon white ink (I originally used Elzybells white ink but it was taking too long to dry and smudged easily so I went back to using Stazon).  I made the sour cream cartons with double sided paper, sealed each end with tape and crimped them with a Woodware paper crimper.  Then punched 2 holes in the top and tied a label on with ribbon.

I'll be back soon with some photos of the Desktop Calendar we made at a class in December.

Ps. The sour cream containers were filled with sweets :D

Teacher thank you

I can hardly believe Caleb finishes school tomorrow for the summer holidays!

This is the card for his teacher. I cut out the heart with the Craft Robo and pricked the card all around the outline. The sentiment is printed on the computer (teacher's pet font) and cut out with zig zag scissors.

I made a matching box with a few wee treats inside.

The second card and box is for his classroom assistant. The whirligig flower was cut with the craft robo (template designed by Sylvia Femle) and layered. I used the negative of the cut outs to sponge ink through to make the background.

Notebook

This is a covered notebook I made for Lydia's teacher last year. I punched the flowers from the designer paper and triple embossed them for a glossy effect and to make them more durable. I did the same with the word 'notes' which were cut with the cuttlebug (I think it was the 'Olivia' dies)