Teachers Are Amazing

 

Today is the last day of school for kids in our area, I know in the US school goes till the end of May, but int Canada, we most often go until late June.  Our daughter is a teacher, and I know she’s been counting the days as much as the kids have.  This cute set is a retired one from MFT that I had in my Colouring Catch Up basket, so it made for an easy card.  She’s coloured up with Copics, and I added some texture to her jean skirt with Copic Blender solution and a canvas background stamp, as well as hand drawn glasses and polka dots for her top.   

The design has a bit of a mathmatical theme with the background images on the coral layer, and the cute Positively Cut Card Front Die from Concord & 9th.  Easy to use one of the “plusses” for an accent.  

I used that same Canvas background on the sentiment layer and embossed the sentiment in white.  I think any teacher would love to hear words like this!  

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Teachers Are Amazing

Hey Girl

Well, we’ve got all three kids off to school now.  Our youngest started Junior High, and as I imagined  because of his personality, it’s been a great start, which is really fun.  Our middle son is in High School and our daughter is in second year University.  

I actually made this card for our daughter, and I hope you don’t mind my proud mama moment.   A few weeks ago she received notice that she was awarded a scholarship for second year, she found out she’s in the top 2% of her degree program.  With at least 4000 students in her degree at the University she’s at, it’s a huge accomplishment and she worked very hard last year for it.  She studies hard and also holds down a part-time job at the same time.  I just wanted to let her know again, as she’s finishing out week two of year two, that we’re really proud of her, not just for earning the scholarship, but also to see her pursue her calling.  She’s going to be a great teacher.  I’ll pop it in her backpack to surprise her.  

This great set from Power Poppy is called Well Played, Marcy designed it with her daughter in mind, and it’s a perfect set with lots of fun images and love and encouragement in the sentiments.  Inside the card reads “You totally rock!"

I gave it some fun colouring to match the paper by Carta Bella (Hello Again), and mimicked the heart and star on the backpack in the sentiment/embellishments. 

To make the wood veneer heart match the card, I gave it a little touch of R21.  

Now don’t forget...we’re only half way through our Power and Spark Challenge this month to create Gifts from the Heart!  Jump on in for your chance to win!

Here’s the rest of the Bloom Brigade in action....

Christine Okken (you are here)
Cindy Lawrence
Julie Koerber
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan

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Hey Girl

Well Played

We’re here for Day Two of the Color Me Grateful Polymer release at Power Poppy!  Today we’re showing off such a fun set that Marcy designed with her sweet daughter in mind.  It’s perfect for a number of occasions...teens, summer, the beach, it’s called Well Played, and I know you’re going to enjoy us showing it to you, the Bloom Brigade have some really fun and creative ideas!    

I chose this fantastic backpack all packed up for a day at the beach.  Doesn’t it look ready for a girls day of fun with the water bottle, old school walkman and a pretty chevron towel?   I paired the image with some fun papers in the MME On Trend pack adding some wood veneer embellies with some white craft ink on top to give them more of a white washed feel.  

I am slightly addicted to my stitched dies lately....I find myself reaching for them all the time!  I love that it gives you a clean look, but with just the right amount of extra detailing. 

Here’s the Copics I used above....

Be sure to stop by the Power Poppy Blog to see what sweet things Marcy will have to say about this set and the rest of the Bloom Brigade playing along today...

Allison Cope
Christine Okken (you are here)
Cindy Lawrence
Kathy Jones
Katie Sims
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker

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Well Played

Back to School - Giveaway Week

Happy Labour Day Canadians and and Americans!  OH the day is coming....Tuesday brings school here.  There is both excitement and dreading in our house :)  The older the child, the greater proportion of dread to excitement.  LOL!

I'm back with Day Two of my Giveaway week and today I thought I'd start by pulling out a little school-themed creation I made.  I have many friends who have little ones just starting school, a Kindergartener or 1st Grader.  Such a precious stage.  I talked to one of the beginning First Graders today about what she was excited about, having more recesses, and her own desk and school supplies hit the top two, but leaving Mom at home was a bit sad for her :)  

This is a very cute SU set, Greeting Card Kids, and I've paired it with some Fancy Pants Papers - Off to School, colouring with Copics, a strip embossed with a PTI Impression Plate, and Jen's SFYTT for September!

Close-up of the Colouring...BG11, BG13, BG15, R27, R29, R39, E00, E21, E31, E33, Y11, Y23, W2. W3, W5.  

And now to the giveaway!

If you remember a few weeks ago I talked about taking a few days to organize my "stuff" and I went through all my papers.  When I was a SU demo 4-ish years ago, it made sense to have lots of 12 x 12 paper because I was always using it for classes.  But now, it's just too much paper, and I'll never use all of it, so I've cut down these papers and scraps to 6 x 6 sizes and am ready to give it away!  There is a great selection here....

I have enough for probably 5 or 6 people to have several bunches of papers, like getting several 6 x 6 pads of your own.  I'll try to keep "like papers" together in bunches.  

So...leave a comment telling me:

"What does September bring to you this year?  Anything new, exciting, nerve wracking, difficult or joyous?"

I'll draw 5 or 6 random comments Wednesday at 10 PM MTN time.  You'll have 48 hours to get me your snail mail address.  

One entry per person please.  But please pass the word around, I'm happy to give these lovely papers new homes.  

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Back to School - Giveaway Week

Stampbook Saturday - Christine

Today I get to be the hostess at the There She Goes Blog on Stampbook Saturday :)  It's a chance for the TSG girls to be inspired by a card creation and put that into a scrapbook page.  

I love the There She Goes Believe in You set and I went back in the TSG Gallery and found this little beauty by Lisa Henke (you can see it on the TSG Blog if you're interested - its' really cute!)  

Well, I took her inspiration from the card and put it into a 12 x 12 Scrapbook page of our middle Son 8 years ago when he started Pre-School.  He was so little then, so cute, so blonde!   (You can click on any of these pictures if you like to see them larger :)

As you can see I kept some of the same colors and themes and basic layout.  

One fun detail I'll show you is the little pull-tab where the journalling is...  sorry for the glare, it's so hard to get the right light without the camera picking up the gloss of the pictures.  

You can pull it out to read, and push it back in to hide it too :)  

When he saw the page he was like "MUM I had a mushroom cut?!"  I said "OH but you were SO cute!"

I cut the letters out of a SU Sizzix Strip Typeset alpha I think?  And glued them on with a little Quickie Glue pen.  

I used my note book edge punch, some cute twine and mini clips as accents, as well as the Hexagon Nestabilites.  

Thanks for stopping by today...hopefully you're inspired to pull out some photos and put together a page or two.  I know this set is fantastic for school pages!  

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Stampbook Saturday - Christine