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

Using Multiple Stamps on one card

Hey there. Here is a card that I created using stamps from multiple stamp sets simply because one stamp set did not have the kind of images I was looking for. I found this technique quite fun and I now feel I can get more from my stamps by combining them this way. The overall card is inspired by Jennifer Mcguire's this card.

I first stamped in the sentiment 'Hello' and then positioned the flowers and leaves around it. After stamping all the images with black ink, I started coloring with my Faber Castell color pencils. The alphabet stamp that I used here only has the outlines, so I filled the alphabets using silver pen. Then I finished the card with some gemstones in flower centers. For the border I have used a washi tape in the background.

Challenges entered

Lulupu Challenge #26 - Try Something New !
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
Ribbon Carousel Challenge - RCC90 Washi Tape
Sweet Stamps - # 157 Anything Goes

Diwali Bloghop 2013!

Hi Everyone!   We are very excited to bring to you this Diwali Blog Hop 2013.  All you got to do to take part in this hop is to visit the blogs of all the lovely ladies of this hop. The blog list and hop order is given below.  

I have created this card for the blog hop. It's a CAS card made using stencils. I used a washi tape to make a frame for the stencilled image. The design is colored using Wild Honey Distress ink. 

Why should you take part in this blog hop?

Who wouldn't want to win some exciting goodies!! Yes, Chaitali is giving away 2 sets of her newest stamp set, Henna Swirls, to 2 lucky winners of the hop! She'll pick 2 winners from all comments on all the blogs!

 

The prize is sponsored by There She Goes!!

The hop order is:

• Chaitali - http://cutscropscreativity.com
• Smriti - http://ribbonsetc.blogspot.com/

Sanketi - http://sanketij.blogspot.com/ 

Gayatri - http://scrapawayg3.blogspot.com/ 

Deepti - http://deesartutopia.blogspot.com/ 

Pooja - http://reusingwithquilling.blogspot.com/

Indira - http://arty-sorts.blogspot.com/  --> You are here!

Happy hopping, and wishing all of you a very Happy and Safe Diwali!!

Upcycled Cardboard Box

Hi. Posting the cardboard box that I made for Lulupu blog. Some of you might have already seen it there. I made this cute and large storage box for a friend of mine. She wanted an empty box to store some goodies and gift it to her hubby.

I won't go into the details about it. In case you are interested to know more about how I made it, the details can be found at Lulupu blog here.

The image below summarises how I made the box

Challenges entered

LESSology - #24 Are you a cover girl?