Teacher Cards

If you read my blog....you would think I am crazy about Valentine's Day!  Actually the opposite is true, I have really never been crazy about the holiday but for my kiddos I usually try to go all out:)  Brett who is in 5th grade, is not crazy about giving his teacher a gift this year...I am sure I will be dropping that one off..but Andy is super pumped!  The gift I have not gotten together yet but that is the easy part...we had to get the card together first.  These are very similar to the Christmas cards I made for both teachers. 

I started out by cutting the layers for the cards.  I LOVE this size of card....I have created this card for so many things...birthday cards, invitations, and thank you notes.  It is a fun size, doesn't take much paper, and can be used later as a magnet or placed on a memo board.  The card is cut at 4x4, the second layer is 3x3, the third is 2 1/1x 2 1/2, and the fourth is 1x1. 

 The above picture does not show the first layer of paper...the base layer is pink.  The second layer I have stamped around the edges with pink.  Each piece of paper I sand paper across at least once and distressed the edges with tea stain distress stamp.   Next I used a printed piece of paper and attached with double sided sticky tape.  On the one inch square I used a Creative Memories stamp from my collection.  At the bottom I half-stamped the paper with another stamp from the collection, on the one inch square, I distressed the edge with pink instead.  Spray glitter was used on the entire card after it was taped together.

 I will print out something for the back of the card and of course will use a font from my favorite place Kevin and Amanda.  They have the best fonts on the web, so check them out!!!

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Hearty Crayons

I have to start this post by telling you the story of "the lady in Hobby Lobby"  so that is what we will call it....The Lady in Hobby Lobby!  After an exhausting search for plaster of Paris through every single aisle and back again...I finally asked a sales associate for assistance.  Needless to say, I suppose my age really showed when I asked for this product.  She gave a half-hearted look through a few aisles and said..."guess we don't have that!"  Back to looking again..I was finding this plaster of Paris!!!!  The lady in hobby lobby that was in the same aisle when I asked the sales associated for assistance finally broke down and asked me..."so what are you going to do with this plaster?"  Politely, I replied...."making chalk for my son's Valentine's bags at school." and to this she replied, "wow, you must have A LOT of time on your hands!"  and then proceeded to insist that I could go buy a big bag of chalk for ninety-nine cents on the next aisle over!  If you know me...you realize this did not go over well with me:)......then I found out she was making candles,  she then asked for my assistance in picking out the supplies. How could I be upset with a fellow crafter....I guess:)  This was over a week ago and I am still mentioning it to my husband everyday, this story really doesnt have a point except to tell you that instead of chalk, Andy and I made large heart crayons for his classmates....too much time on my hands, whatever!


This project turned out to be a cheaper solution and was way less painful than looking for plaster of Paris:)  Andy and I took out all of his old crayons, unwrapped them and broke them into pieces.  You would not think this would be lots of work for an eight year old since they are pros at breaking things...but after about six crayons, he was tuckered out and needed to watch t.v. and lay on the couch!  I already had this silicone mold from last year, the hearts are large....but they do sell smaller ones that would work great as well.

I suggest filling each to the top, it does take quite a few crayons for this project.  I had a helper...if it were only me making the crayons...I would have stuck with one color and added in one contrasting color.  We put the silicone mold on a cookie sheet before placing in a 200 degree oven for about fifteen minutes.  

When taking these out of the oven....please be extremely careful, they will be in liquid form and VERY hot!  It will take several hours for them to return to solid form....pop them out and you are done.  Super easy project.......once I get the entire goody bag together I will be posting more pics....

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Trash to Treasure

My husband and I eat almonds like there is no tomorrow, needless to say we are left with these empty containers after all the almonds are gone.  I have kept wondering what I could use the empty containers for and thought...what about my craft supplies!  After scraping off all of the label that would come off with just my fingernails, the goo gone came out and it came off with ease! 

The lid was a green color....I knew this would bug me so I painted the lid with a spray paint meant to cover and stay on plastic, this was used as a primer. Later painted a cream color with regular spray paint and sprayed with spray glitter.  

I measured the area where I wanted paper placement and began cutting paper to fit the area.  The paper used is from Canvas Corp  After cutting the paper, I rounded the edges with the Creative Memories corner rounder, lightly sanded each piece, then antiqued with a Tim Holtz distressing pad(tea dye).  

The Canvas Corp glue works great for stacking the papers, this glue makes it stick....and stick well:)  It also will not wrinkle the paper when it is drying.  Normally I like to let each layer dry just a bit before placing another layer on top. The middle of the layer is two round circles that were cut out with the Creative Memories circle punch.  The top circle was stamped with a circle stamp that reads "from the heart".

To finish off the top of the project, I found ribbon that was used in my tassel project, and hemp cord from Canvas Corp.  A chipboard embellishment that I found in my supplies was dyed to match the ribbon with a stamp pad.  Letting the chipboard dry, I tied the ribbon around the top and heated up the glue gun!  Then attached the chipboard with hot glue.  

Below is the entire finished project!

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Gift Card Holder

While digging through some of my scrapbooking supplies, I came across this template to make a card/holder/envelope.  I started with pink paper, traced the template and cut out the shape. 

 

I measured the inside to cut a square, used double sided sticky tape to attach the paper to the inside of the card.  This is the inside of the card and can be used for the personal message.  

On the outside of the card, I stamped a smaller card with a stamp that reads "always loved", it resembles a postage stamp and I love this entire stamp set.....I threw away the packaging but I'm sure it was a cheap set from Michaels.  After stamping, spray glitter was applied, punched a hole in the top of the small card and tied a ribbon to the top.  The small card was attached with double sided sticky tape to the larger card.  It is the perfect size for a gift card, throw it in, and send off to your Valentine:)  This one is going to my mother!

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Creative Genius

It turns out I am not the only creative genius in the family!LOL  Andy made Jon and I this bowl for Christmas, he was just now able to bring it home because it had to be fired first.  Well he brought it home yesterday and asked me if I could blog about it...so, I am!!!  If you see him, please let him know how great you think his bowl is:)))