Teacher appreciation

Its the end of the school year, so that means teacher appreciation time. 

Both of my kids had wonderful male teachers who did so much for them. 

Here are the special cards which I created for them.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: The Greeting Farm Soccer Ian, Paper Smooches Smarty Pants

Coloured in Copics & Watercolour

Paper: Kaiser Craft Class Act

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants, Kaszazz sentiment Learning is a Journey

Coloured in Copics

Box Cards

I think I've found my favourite card style; pop-up box cards! They are super fun to make and make use of all of those freebie magazine stamps and left over papers to make super cute scenes.

Here's some I've been working on recently.

 

Magazine Freebie Stamps: Gingerbread Village, Boho Chic

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Dearie Dolls, Yampuff Alyce and Lila

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Saturated Canary Grow, CC Design Little Bug Emma + Apple Blossom Cardmaking Collection #2

Let's Party!

My son has some twin friends party the next day and I didn't have any boy cards in my stash so I had to put together a couple of quick cards for them. This is one I put together.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Paper Smooches 'Cutasaurus', Kaszazz Chevron Background

Copics: Y17  YR14  YR18

Papers: Cardstock

Other: Mowed Lawn & Broken China Distress ink, twine, sequins.

I'm playing along with:

Crafty Gals Corner #90: Critters
Cute Card Thursday #444: Party Time!
Left of Centre #148: Four Legged Creature
Creatalicious #99: Anything Goes + Song  - Walk the Dinosaur by Was (Not Was)

Thanks Teacher

My daughters teacher finished up for the year and she asked me to make a card for her to give the next day so I had limited time to think about it and put something together. This is what I came up with on short notice.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Paper Smooches 'Smarty Pants'

Papers: Sugar & Spice 'School Days' paper pack, cardstock

Other: White Embossing powder, Dots embossing folder, paper clips, sequins.

I'm playing along with:

Crafters Cafe #153: CAS
Addicted to Stamps #204: CAS
Crafting When We Can #124: Squares (Top 3!)
Alphabet Challenge: K = Kindness
Creatalicious #95: Anything Goes

You Are Awesome!

Happy Anzac Day! For those of you not from Australia, April 25 was originally to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in World War 1. Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance that now commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations. Today is the 99th anniversary of Gallipoli campaign.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.

Today I've prepared a quick clean and simple card using some of my standard dies for the Dies R Us inspirational blog. If you don't already know Dies R Us are starting a challenge blog! Please hop over to our brand new site which will commence on May 1. 

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Papersmooches 'Cutasaurus' stamp set, Kaszazz chevron background stamp

Distress Markers/Ink: Peeled Paint, Victorian Velvet, Pumice Stone, Scattered Straw, Dusty Concord, Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Vintage Photo

Paper: cardstock, kraft

Dies: Spellbinders Grand Circles, Spellbinders Label One

Other: Cuttlebug Dot Embossing folder, rhinestones, Wink of Stella

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Colour Q #238

Art Impressions #134: Anything Goes Masculine

4 Crafty Chicks #191: Embossing

Pennys Challenge #174: One for the Boys

Diva's by Design: Let's go to the movies (movie: Jurassic Park)

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #92: Make your mark

The Pink Elephant #247: Water Colour

Cute Daisy May: Emboss it

Scrapping 4 Fun #15: Use a stamp/digi

Crafting from the Heart #15: Anything Goes