Thank You Cards for Teachers

Happy Friday!

This week has flown by! Work has been so busy since I got back from vacation, but I love it! I'm looking forward to a relaxing long weekend though with beautiful HOT weather (up to 35 deg C next week!). We recently purchased a 5-person oasis island float and hope to try it out on Canada Day on a nearby lake. Should be fun!

For today's post, I wanted to share with you 6 thank you cards that I made for a friend. Her kids give gifts/cards to their teachers on the last day of school and she requested some handmade thank you cards for them to hand out - one for a librarian teacher, one for each of their teachers, one for their music teacher, one for the principal, and one for the secretary.
This was a fun challenge! I had some ideas in mind for the teachers, but struggled a bit with the card design for the principal and secretary. However, I'm really happy with the results!

Here's what I came up with:



A bookworm for the librarian

 

For teacher #1

 

For teacher #2

 

For the music teacher

 

For the principal

For the secretary

It was so much fun to come up with 6 different designs. I especially love that owl on the 2nd card above!
 
Thanks for visiting! I will be taking the long weekend off from blogging. Come back on Tuesday for a new post!

FMS #91 {A Thank You Card for a Music Teacher}

It's back to work today! It was nice to have some R&R this past weekend (almost need a vacation from our vacation!). And to top it off, the weather in PG was perfect! Lots of sunshine and hot temps! I spent most of the weekend in the sun, in between laundry loads :)

Today is a special day for my father-in-law. We celebrate his 64th birthday! Because we were away, I didn't have a chance to make him a card, but we did send him a postcard from Yellowstone National Park with an image of Old Faithful Geyser on the front. We are thinking of him and send him our best wishes!

When I got back, I was asked to make several thank you cards for school teachers/principal/secretary. This was a fun challenge! It's still a work in progress but I'm happy with the results so far! One of the cards is for a male music teacher. Right away I thought of the Natural Composition designer paper. There is a sheet with embossed musical notes on it - perfect! I used the simple sketch from Freshly Made Sketches this week and am entering it in this challenge just in the nick of time!

 

I had a bit of a challenge with choosing a colour combo, but it came together nicely! The musical note DSP is sponged with Soft Suede ink to make the embossed images stand out a bit more. I added a strip of Midnight Muse cardstock and distressed the edges. Linen thread and a Pool Party button are added to embellish the card. Finally I added flags, one stamped with the sentiment "thank you".

 

 

What do you think? It's very clean and simple, not my usual style, but I think it works as a great masculine card!

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Made for You

Paper: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Midnight Muse, Pool Party, Natural Composition DSP

Ink: Soft Suede

Tools: Distress Tool

Accessories: Linen Thread, Pool Party button, Pool Party bakers twine



FM103 & SSSC181 {Thank You Teacher}

Unfortunately, it's back to work this morning! It was a quiet Easter weekend without my hubby. Wish I could have been in Ontario to celebrate Easter with family. But, I managed to have a nice relaxing weekend and got quite a few things done. Saturday was spring-cleaning day... I vaccuumed and mopped the floors and did a pile of laundry. Unfortunately, the floors won't stay clean for long -- nice spring weather leads to snow melting and a muddy dog! A skype call with my Dad brightened my Saturday. Sunday afternoon after a nice Easter morning church service, I took a walk with Keta. It was so warm out and there wasn't a cloud in the sky! Here's a pic of me and my puppy :)

Another highlight to my weekend -- one of my cards was chosen as a top pick for two different challenges! Click here for the original post. This card was chosen as a Mashup Glamette for the Friday Mashup (FM102) challenge and an honourable mention at Dynamic Duos!

 

For today's card, I'm participating in two challenges -- a new mashup challenge with Friday Mashup and a sketch challenge from Sweet Sunday Sketch.

The Friday Mashup challenge this week is to create a project using 'lined paper' or create a project that has a distressed appearance or mash it up! I decided to mash it up. I had the perfect idea in mind. When I think of lined paper, I think of school, so I thought of making a thank you card for a teacher. And this sketch was the perfect layout!

 

I used bright designer paper from the Summer Smooches collection. I then distressed some lined paper by sponging the edges with Early Espresso ink and ripping one of the corners. I then placed this on cardstock and punched one of the edges with the Spiral Border punch. I also distressed the edges of this cardstock using the new distressing tool from Stampin Up.

I created an apple core using using the punch art technique and added a small paperclip as a finishing touch.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 



Card Ingredients

Stamps: Curly Cute

Paper: Early Espresso, Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Real Red, Summer Smooches DSP

Ink: Real Red, Early Espresso, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink (Antique)

Tools: Spiral Border punch, Tab punch, Ribbon Border punch, Fancy Flower punch

Accessories: Paperclip