Thankful Poppies - Final Teacher Appreciation

This week has been a lot of teacher appreciation!  But they deserve it - I'm not sure I could teach a class of 20 elementary students every day.  I volunteered for 30 minutes in the lunch room last week and that was quite overwhelming!!!!

My card today uses a new Hero Arts stamp that I bought with my Christmas money from my sweet husband.  I had seen a card online using this Poppy stamp and I loved it so much I had to go and find it!  Fortunately my local stamping store has a great Hero Arts section so I was able to find it easily.  It is a solid block image which I stamped using blue chalk ink and then colored in with Prismacolor pencils.  My red background was created using a Stampin'Up! swirl stamp (from a set I forget the name of!) using Versamark for a watermark effect.

The only other detail I added was a couple of green gems either side of the sentiment - otherwise it is quite simple so your attention is drawn to the poppies.

I promise I'm done with teacher appreciation cards now!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Stamps: Hero Arts (poppies), SU! (sentiment)
Paper : PTI Smooth White, SU! Brilliant Blue and Ruby Red
Ink : Versacolor chalk ink (sky blue), SU! Night of Navy
Accessories : TCP Green gems, SU! Oval punch

More Teacher appreciation

This teacher thank you card is very simple and doesn't have a lot of fussy design elements, but that is simply because I wanted everyone's attention drawn to the quote in the center (which is not a stamp, I printed it out  on my printer and then lined it up inside the diecut).  This is for Edward's kindergarten teacher - and she truly has been very inspiring and Edward has had a great year just because of her!

This time I did not use my Cricut Lacy Labels cartridge - the main diecut is a Spellbinders die (one of my favorite shapes!)  To add a little bit of detail to the sentiment I added some Hero Arts nailheads in bright red.  The strip at the bottom is made of patterned paper and a dotted ribbon I got at a Creating Keepsakes Convention a few years ago.

Has anyone else been creating Teacher appreciation cards?  What designs have you come up with?

Stamps : None
Paper : PTI Black and Smooth White, Fancy Pants 'To the Moon' DP
Ink : None
Accesories : Hero Arts Red Nail heads, Ribbon from Imaginisce, Spellbinders Die 

Teacher Appreciation

It's that time of year again.... the end of school!  This the first year all three of my boys have been in school and I have been so grateful to have a little bit of freedom during the day!  I am so grateful to all 6 teachers (Thomas is in 5th and has 4 teachers for different subjects) and I have made a card for each of them to express my thanks for all their hard work this year.  This is the first design I came up with and I created a set of 4 similar cards in slightly different colors :

I will be posting the remaining two cards later this week, so keep checking back to see the other designs!

Stamps : Hero Arts (Spring Meadow and Thanks text background), SU! (Sentiment)
Paper : PTI Smooth White and Spring Moss
Ink : Versamark, Versacolor Bamboo, Versamagic Chalk ink and VersaColor
Accessories : EKSuccess small butterfly punch, Cricut Lacy Labels cartridge, Clear embossing powder