Teacher Gifts

 

My son starts “Big School” in September.  I can’t believe he is going to be 5.  So this week is his last one at his Pre-school Playgroup.  He has been there the past 2 years and I decided to make some gifts for the teachers.

I thought something that they could keep would be nice and so decorated some glass votive’s (tea light holders).  I made fabulous little boxes for them too.  Only I packed them all before I could take a picture of the decorated holders.  Still here are the boxes that they will be delivered in.

The boxes are in Baja Breeze cardstock with a 2.5 cm (1 inch) strip of Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper. attached over one side to the other.  The boxes are from a sizzix die that I have which I ran through my Stampin’ Up! Big Shot.  I really love the versatility of the Big Shot which allows me to use other dies. 

Once the tea light holders were sealed inside the boxes, I tied some of the gorgeous Certainly Celery 3.2 cm (1 1/4 inch) Striped Grosgrain Ribbon.  The tag is made using the Cute by the Inch Hostess Stamp Set stamped in Baja Breeze on Very Vanilla cardstock.  I then punched out this out using the Small Label Punch.  Using the Large Label Punch I punched out the larger layer in Always Artichoke and attached it using Baja Breeze Seam Binding.

Here is a close up of the Thank You card.

The sentiment is from the wonderful Oval All stamp Set.

I am so thrilled with the way this has all turned out.  I hope they like them.

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Elaine x

It’s all about the Garden…

Well I don’t know about you, but I love the garden when it’s in bloom.  All the beautiful spring &  summer flowers that we have!  Unfortunately though Spring and Summer are still a way off, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have flowers!
I love this card!  It’s made using the beautiful Cottage Garden Stamp set (Page 53 IB&C 2010-2011) and the coordinating Designer Series Papers Sunny Garden.

The Cottage Garden Stamp set is a Two-Step stampin’ set, and should be used in conjunction with the Stamp-a-ma-jig to make sure that the dark outlines for the flowers sit perfect to the lighter background colour on the flowers.  Only I couldn’t put my hands on mine while making this card, but to be honest, I quite like the bit of white showing through. 
I stamped the greeting on another piece of DSP and punched it out using the Extra Large Oval punch (No 17, Page 105 IB&C 2010-2011).  I love the versatility of the DSP.
A touch of Gold Elastic Cord (Page 96 IB&C 2010-2011) and there you go, a little bit of  Summer Garden.
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Elaine x