Best Teacher!

Hello & welcome back!

Sharing the last set of Teacher Appreciation cards today!

These cards use pattern papers from DCWV & PTI & Clearly Besotted stamps.

A bit of masking & copic coloring in this card - 

Linking this to - 

Happy Little Stampers Challenge - 29.9

Alphabet Challenge - 15.9

Case this Sketch#189 -15.9

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge/ - 14.9

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For a Special Teacher

Hello Friends!

Another set of Teacher's Day cards today!

Loved the layout of these cards in which I have used pattern papers, die cuts & stamping........all here!

The papers are from DCWV, die & stamp set from Paper Trey Ink (Wonderful words - Teacher) & also Spellbinders (Page Maps - Office Supplies).

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Sharing this at the following challenges - 

Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - 19.9

Going Grey with Scrap Creations Challenge - 20.9

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - 12.9

Tuesday Throwdown#310 - 12.9 - WINNER

Crazy Challenge#230 - 11.9

MMM Challenge#29 - 11.9

Brown Sugar Challenge#214 - 8.9 - TOP 3

Melonheadz Friends Challenge - 11.9

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For a Special Teacher

Hello Friends!

Another Teacher's Day Card share today.

In this card I have used Paper Trey Ink stamps & dies - Wonderful Words - Teacher Mini Stamp Set & Tag Die#3. 

Sharing this at the following challenges - 

DL Art Thankful Thursday#187 - 7.9

Addicted to Stamps #209 - 5.9

Brown Sugar Challenge#214 - 7.9

Tag You're it Challenge#55 - 13.9 - The floral pattern & the sentiment hanging of the tag inspired me in the card design

Crazy Challenge#230 - 11.9

Sparkles Forum Challenge#83 - 14.9

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - 6.9

Happy Little Stampers Challenge - 29.9 (The die cut tag is the focal element as in Asa's card & also the bold sentiment)

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Thanks dear Teacher

Good Afternoon!

September 5th, is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India & I love making cards for teachers. I have been sharing these over the last few days. If you have missed them please go to the posts here, here & here. 

In today's post I share two cards with the same layout with minor changes. 

I have used DCWV pattern papers & die cuts in both. In the first card the copic colored crayons are from the Lawn Fawn stampe & die set - You color my world.

For the second card I replaced the crayons with a fun test tube die cut, which I'm sure any science teacher will love!

Over the last few years I made post it notes & cards for teachers which are in the links here, here & here.

Playing along the following challenges with this card - 

Your Next Stamp#47 - 15.9

Simon Says Stamp Challenge  - 4.9

Die Cuttin Divas#281 - 4.9

Casology#213 - 5.9

Crafty Calendar Challenge - 28.9

Blog Quick Quotes#67 - 25.9

Color Throwdown#408 - 5.9

MMM#29 - 10.9

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For a Fantastic Teacher

Hello Friends!

Back with another Teachers Day card! No pattern papers here, distress ink resist & copic coloring on the die cuts are the highlights here! And don't miss the versatile washi tape on the left.

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted Stamps - Teachers pet & the crayons - Lawn Fawn - You color my World.

Linking this to the following challenges - 

Lil Red Wagon#357 - 6.9

Tiddly in#189 - 5.9

The Crafty Addicts#23 - 13.9

Ooh-la-la-Creations#212 - 10.9

Pile it on Challenge#115 - 3.9

Trimmies Craft Challenge#379 - 7.9

Simon Says Stamp Challenge/ - 6.9

Brown Sugar Challenge#214 - 7.9 - TOP 3

Colour Crazy Challenge#21 - 16.9

Patties Creations #126 - 4.10

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Thank you Teacher!

Hello Crafty Friends!

A quick share of a teacher appreciation card I recently made.

The foil feather stickers here really pop up against the wood grain background, in this simple yet effective card.

Sharing this at - 

NBUS Challenge#7 - 5.9 - NBUS foil stickers

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge - 6.9

Less is More#291 - 2.9

Tuesday Throwdown#309 - 5.9

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Post-it Note Holders

Hi Friends!

I love making bookmarks & cards for teachers. You can see some of my posts on these here, here & here. This year my daughter requested me to make post it holders for her teachers (w/o flowers & stamping!). 

Used some distress inks & stencils for the first one. The flaps of all the post it holder have a velcro closure.

Sharing this at - 

Simon Says Stamp - 14.9

Made good use of coordinating pattern papers in a few - 

#1 is stamped on a wood veneer speech bubble covered with inkagold - 

This one is made in a book-style with chipboards covers.

Sharing this at - 

One Stitch at a Time#245 - 19.9

And this is the last one, the die cut doily inked & misted with distress ink to make the background. The cute pencil embellie was stamped & made from shrink plastic.

I had earlier made easel type post it holders too, you can view that post here.

Sharing this at - 

Simon Says Stamp - 16.9

Fun with Shapes and More#190 - 17.9

Frosted Designs - 30.9

Fussy-and-fancy-challenge-147-back-to.html - 17.9

Wags n Whiskers#161 - 17.9

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CAS Card

Good Morning friends!

Sharing a card made for the Lulupu DT. You can find all the details & a tutorial for this over on the Lulupu blog.

Supplies used - 

Color box Q - Misty meadow

Paper Trey Ink stamp & die - Wonderful words - Teacher

Archival Jet Black ink pad

Doodle bug designs - Sprinkles

Crate paper - Flea market

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circle

White card Stock

Vellum

Sharing this at - 

The paper players#258 - (the aqua colored stamping & a sea of words!) - 21.8

CFC#142 - 28.8

Clean and simple on Sunday#65-vellum.html - 28.8

AAA cards#46 -  29.8

Liastampz#91 - 30.8

Papertake weekly - 25.8

Sir stamp a lot- 31.8

Cagi - 21.8

HIMCR#212b - 21.8

HIMCR#212d- 21.8

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Water Color Thank you Card

Morning Everyone!

We have another fun challenge at Lulupu - Water Colors. Sharing the card I made as part of the DT inspiration. Combined the water color burst effect with the camouflaging die cuts technique here.

Want to know how I went about with this? Hop over to the blog here for the tutorial.

Sharing this at - 

Die Cuttin' Divas#209 - 5.4

Everybody-Art-Challenge#318 - 6.4

Crafting from the Heart - 5.4

Craftin Desert Divas - 12.4

The Pink Elephant#292 - 5.4

Through the Purple Haze - 30.4

Simon Says Stamp - 1.4

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Teachers Day Cards

Good Morning!

A very happy happy teachers day to all you crafty mommies! After all we are the first teahcers to are kids :-). Thank you all for the appreciation for the teachers day cards I posted here. Well  I had saved my fav collection to share today. CAS is not my style at all & it was rather hard for me to complete all these without distress inks & blooms! Made best use of two paper stacks from DCWV - Education pack & Grade school.

So here goes - 

 This card is linked here -

 http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.in/2014/09/53-tic-tac-toe-crafty-sentiments.html (stamp, sentiment, twine)

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.in/2014/09/september-challenge-1-back-to-school.html (16/9) (WINNER)

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-253-back-to-school.html  (FEATURED)

http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-218-cas.html

http://color-me-scrappy.blogspot.in/2014/09/cms-challenge-69.html

The next two cards are almost same. Note how a slight variation in the size of the layers gives a different look. I have been wanting to use a mason jar on a card for long. The school supplies in the vellum jar are stamped & fussy cut. The scale is a washi tape. I love the bright colors & patterns in the apples here.

This one is linked to the challenges below -

http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.in/2014/08/ch59-back-to-school.html 

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.in/2014/09/the-pink-elephant-challenge-tpe266.html (WINNER)

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-229-back-to-school.html

http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-63-back-to-school.html (WINNER)

http://scrap-creations1.blogspot.in/2014/08/going-grey-with-scrap-creations-back-to.html

http://www.trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-275-4th-of-september-back-to.html

http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-226-school-supplies.html

http://craftandsmash.blogspot.it/2014/09/tema-scuola-penne-matite-quaderni.html (28/9)

 http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.in/2014/08/back-to-school-challenge.html

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/challenge-50-anything-goesback-to-school.html 

In the next one the sentiment was built using a combo of different stamp sets & says it all.

Now won't every chemistry teacher love this! A while back I had seen something like this on pinterest & so wanted to use it on a card. The pattern paper is just perfect for this too!

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.in/2014/08/dlart-thankful-thursday-challenge-139.html 

And finally how about this to delight a geography teacher? The map, the planets...................purrrrrrrfect!! 

http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-9-back-to-school.html

http://casethissketch.blogspot.in/2014/09/case-this-sketch-91.html

 

How I wish I can go back to school either as a student to proudly had over these to my favorite teachers or as a teacher to receive these, what say?After this marathon session of CAS cards & loads of use of pattern paper I must confess that I now am a little comfortable running the scissors through my designer papers.................not to mention that I save the tiniest leftover piece!

Cards for Teachers

Good Morning!

Sharing a couple of cards I made for my daughters' teachers(in India September 5th is celebrated as Teachers Day).  You can view the cards & post it holders I made for them last year here, here & here.

Unlike the ones I made then, this time I decided to play around with some school theme pattern papers & go CAS. This is not my style & will eagerly wait for your feedback friends :-).

In all the below cards I used papers from the DCWV education stack. This is such an apt collection for teachers cards. The busy designs do all the work ;-).

Most of the sentiments are from the Teacher's Pet stamp set from Clearly Besotted.

Playing this at -

http://vandicrafts.com/vandicrafts-artistry-challege-week-six-thanks/

http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.in/2014/08/clean-and-simple.html
http://casethissketch.blogspot.in/2014/08/case-this-sketch-90.html

This card is linked to - 

http://alohafridaychallenges.blogspot.ca/2014/08/aloha-friday-challenge-31-school.html

 http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-99-clean-and-simple.html
http://rubysrainbow.blogspot.in/2014/08/ch86-back-to-school.html

This card is linked to -

http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/challenge-81-school.html 

http://www.frosteddesigns.blogspot.ca/2014/08/brand-new-friday-challenge-break-out.html 

http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-136-back-to-schoolfor-teacher.html

For this card I have stamped a few sentiments (Justrite Grand sentiments) on the pencils.

 Linking this to -

http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-222-back-to-school.html - TOP 3

http://sweet7challenge.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-3.html 

http://tagyoureitchallenge.blogspot.ca/2014/08/tag-youre-it-challenge-5.html

http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.in/2014/08/back-to-school-challenge.html

http://thepapershelter.blogspot.in/2014/08/challenge-171-back-to-school.html

The last card is a simple stamped (IO newprint) card.

  

http://acreativeromance.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/a-touch-of-kraft.html

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BEST TEACHER

Hello friends!
Back again after a short absence to share a card I made for my daughters teacher.
To create the BG I made swatches of colors with distress ink on the CS, following which I heat embossed the flowers in clear embossing powder & then covered the entire BG with black soot distress ink. This is the result of the amazing resist technique..........very much alike the crayon resisit technique I used in this card HERE.

Linking this to the ICR 32. 

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