Handmade Teacher's Day Cards and Gifts

Hi All..... Today I am sharing the cards that I made for my son's preschool teachers... I kept them simple so that I could replicate them quickly. And the Stampoholic tool made it even more easier.... 

I used a mix of stamps for the card....TPC - Travel World, Winnie & Walter - Big Bold You, Just Rite - All Boy, Avery Elle - Christmas Florals and Mini Alphabet Stamp sets. 

Firstly, I heat embossed the globe and the stars with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. Then I stamped 'Thank you teacher' below the embossed image. Added a strip of washi tape below, to complete the cards.

These are the set of cards that I made for the teachers. I also made two more cards in a different design for the helpers who help with changing, cleaning, etc. for the kids at pre- school. Here in Manila (Philippines) they address them as 'Ate' - meaning sister. 

For the second set of cards I replaced the globe image with florals.  I stamped one card in black and heat embossed the other two. Rest of the design is same as the card above. 

If you visited my blog earlier, you would have seen the bookmarks that I had made for Teacher's Day. In addition to that I also decided to make these super cute floral magnets. (More pics on that post page) 

Now on to the packaging part.... I wanted to do something different than the regular envelopes. Also since I had a couple of more things to add, they wouldn't fit inside the envelope, so I decided to wrap them in a piece of wrapping paper (dunno what exactly this type of paper is called). It comes wrapped with a flower bouquet. 

I popped in a chocolate in each of the packets and folded them neatly. Tied them with raffia and added little name tags on top so that the cards don't get mixed up.

I really hope my son's teachers love all the handmade stuff.. I dedicate this post to Jennifer McGuire who I consider as my virtual teacher. I have learnt all my stamping watching her videos. She is really a fabulous person and a great teacher too!

Challenges entered

Paru's Card Making September Challenge - Focus on Words

Bookmarks for Teachers

Hi friends. I made a couple of bookmarks for my son's teachers at his preschool. They are his first teachers and I wanted to make something special for them. I made a few cards too which I shall share very soon.

I used a mix of stamps from PABD - Summer Cooler, Avery Elle - Alphabet Stamps and Maya Road - Ornate Frames, to complete the sentence "A scoop of thanks, sprinkled with love, from Neil". I mounted the sentiment stamps all at once on my Stampoholic tool and that made my work so much easier. I stamped the wordings with Versafine Onyx black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. 

Then I white embossed the ice cream cup image and colored it using Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens. I used multiple colors for the ice cream scoop to give it an 'Ice Cream Sundae' look.

I applied glossy accents in swirly motion on the ice cream scoop and it looks oh so yummylicoius in real life!! Have a closer look!! I also stamped the small sprinkles image from the same PABD stamp set and embossed it with Zing hot pink embossing powder.  

At last, I mounted the white panels on colorful card stock and tied a ribbon on the top.

Challenges entered

PABD Challenge #9 - Color Inspiration

Special Fold Card with Bookmark

Hello Everyone! Today I have a Special Fold Card with Bookmark to share with you. I had seen this kind of card on the internet but I am not able to locate the tutorial right now.

 

Actually speaking, it is a tri-fold card with the third panel being less than half the width of one of the panels. It folds inwards and has a pocket to hold a bookmark.

 

Sorry the pictures are not that good due to poor lighting.

Quilled Bookmarks for Swap

This is a long due post. I had made 22 bookmarks for National Quilling Swap arranged by Gopi Shah. 22 people participated in the first ever quilling swap held in India and we had to make bookmarks equal to the number of participants.

This is the entire bunch. I have made all in same design but different colors and the type of papers used are also very different. Do have a look at the individual pics below. I have grouped them by colors.

I have used papers from magazines for these red ones

 For these I have recycled an old greeting card...

 For these I used wrapping paper on top..

 For these I have trimmed borders from journals and punched them

 For the blue ones I used paper scraps and punched them

 Here again I have used all assorted papers, some are from old cards, some from magazines and sone is from Itsy Bitsy sticker backing.

 Here also I have all assorted papers.

Challenges entered

C.R.A.F.T. - Monochromatic

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - One layer or CAS

Paper Play – Simply cute
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #97 Anything but a Card

Recycled Bookmarks

Hi All. These are some bookmarks that I made using old wedding cards.

The texture of these handmade papers is really nice and I wanted to make use of them.

I have stuck colored papers to hide the text on the cards and retained the golden border on top and bottom. 

 

 Thanks for visiting!

Challenges entered
YNS Challenge #10: Books!
Crafts and Me - #96 use a digi

Corner Bookmarks

Hi. Here are some of the corner bookmarks that I made recently. The PP is from Hobby Ideas

Which one do you like? :)

Challenges entered

Crafting for all Seasons - #33 bright colors

Fab 'n' Funky - #133 Pearls/rhinestones

Ink It Pink - #10 cool colors

Inky Impressions - ribbon

Ruby's Rainbow - Anything but a card

Shopping Our Stash - #63 Monochromatic

Top Tip Tuesday - #8 Focus On The Ribbon
Love to Create - Punches and Dies
Lollipop Crafts - Monochromatic

Glittery card

Hi there! Just logged in to post my last card for the year. It is especially made for Pie Lane's first challenge. I had been thinking about it and finally managed to make something glittery.

Before decribing the card, I want to wish all of my dear blogger buddies a very Happy & Creative New Year ahead!! I had many fabulous moments on the blogland this year: got so many awards, prizes, RAKs, made lotta friends and learnt a lot from each one of you. Thanks a lot for all the love and sharing! God bless you all.

For this card I cut out the colored papers from an old greeting card lying with me. The sentiment is a digi. The quilled flower was in my stash waiting to be used. The butterfly and the flourish is from Pie Lane. And as you can see I have generously used lots of glitter from Hobby Ideas.

 I also made 2 matching bookmarks from the left over pieces and one more card, that I'll be sharing later.

Challenges entered:

Pie Lane Challenge #1: Glittery basics
Drunken Stampers - #80 Glittery Holiday
Sentimental Sundays - must include a Sentiment - Anything Goes
Sparkles Forum - Anything BUT a Christmas Card
Secret Crafter - #166 Anthing goes

Card Crafters Circle – Anything Goes

ICR Secret Buddy Swap - Sent

Finally I get to publish this post after ensuring that all my 3 swap buddies received the swap.

This time the ICR Secret buddy swap was to send three 3" x 3" notecards plus one bookmark/tag to 3 buddies that were assigned to us. Once we registered for the swap we were secretly told about our 3 swap partners. The deal was to to send the swap to our buddy on Friendship day.

Here are the 9 notecards and 3 bookmarks that I made. Oh yeah, we also had to make the envelopes for the cards.

 My 3 buddies were Ujjwal Gupta, Shobana Ravi and Shalini Maskara.

Here are my 3 envelopes, ready to be sent.

 Wat's inside.... :)

 The matching notecard and bookmark.

 Seen here are the notecards, along with the envelopes.

I made the envelope template myself by placing the card on the paper and making the envelope to measure. I made the envelopes bigger by half an inch to fit the embellishments comfortably.