I’m finally getting around to posting my final teacher project. This one was for my youngest’s teacher. I made a gift package with her favorite candy, a bookmark (which I forgot to photograph), and a photo frame with matching card.

I don’t think there is anything tricky or special about making the card, so I’ll move on to the frame.

I started with a plain wooden frame (got it for a buck or two at a craft store). I painted it with white paint that I tinted with Tempting Turquoise ink refill. After that dried, I used the frame to trace the inside and outside edges onto some pattern paper. Once that was cut out, I used modge-podge to glue it in place. I wrapped the frame sides with yellow ribbon. I pulled out some paper flowers from my stash, die cut some leaves – adhering them in place with glue dots. To do the ‘family’ letters, I backed some black paper with sticky paper then die cut the letters.

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The end of school has come and gone. It was quite busy as my oldest “continued” from elementary school. And I was room mom for my other kiddo – so I helped with the end of year party. I’ll just say I’m glad (as always) that May is over! Of course, so much got pushed off until after school – that this week feels like just more of the same!

Enough whining. On to the good stuff – the photos! This year I did acrylic sticky-note pads, favor bags filled with chocolate, a paper clip bookmark, and a Starbuck’s gift card.

I snapped photos of the individual pieces of one of the sets, and the other sets are photographed as a group.

Here’s an “open” shot of the card. I used the Double Slider Tutorial at SplitCoast for creating the cards.

Here is another ensemble. I do believe that PTI’s Wisteria is now my favorite color!

My final ensemble. This teacher has a “wild animal” theme in her classroom, so that is why I decided to do her gifts with animal patterns.

And, because I felt so very clever when I thought of this…here is a closeup of the two sides to the bookmark for the ‘animal’ ensemble:

Below is a quick list of supplies, but if you have any questions, just ask!

 
I picked up a gift card for my kiddo’s teacher. I wanted an interactive way to give the card. My kid helped me come up with this idea and I’m really happy with how it turned out.

My kiddo chose the colors – because purple is the teacher’s favorite color and yellow looks good with purple 🙂

You can’t see it in the photo, but the card base is embossed with PTI’s musical impression plate (again, the teacher likes to sing).

This was actually pretty simple to pull off.

The striped paper is popped up with foam tape (placed to just allow the gift card in – so that the top aligns as it should). The gift top is a folded piece of card stock with the gift card adhered to the inside back with repositionable tape.

 
Hopefully the second photo shows how the ribbon works. One piece is attached to the back of the present bottom, and the other piece is attached to the back of the present top.

I finished off the inside of the card with a little row of presents (because you know, kids don’t write a whole lot, lol).

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My oldest kiddo has a wonderful teacher this year – someone who really looks out for the kid’s best interests. This past week was the end of a semester and I wanted to do something special for the teacher.

Our school is a PBIS school – where they focus on positive behavior. One of the elements is filling a person’s bucket with positive thoughts. The aforementioned teacher once mentioned to me she’d love for someone to fill her bucket with chocolate 😀 So naturally I needed to give her a chocolate filled bucket!

I found this awesome bucket in the Target dollar spot. Since it tapers, I could not figure out how to wrap paper around the bucket, so I just decorated it with die cut stars. I embossed the large star with the sentiment.

Of course I needed to add a card. I used more die cut stars. I recently purchased some good real sewing pinking shears. I used them to cut the mat. The main panel is old scrapbook paper that I have no idea where it came from. I stitched the two together. The sentiment is stamped on vellum. The final touch was spritzing the card base with Shimmerz.

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Today was the first day of school. But a few days ago was “Meet the Teacher” day. I made these gifties for the girls’ new teachers.

I started with a cleaned-up hot chocolate can, covered it with paper and embellished it. I added some decorated pens & pencils. Since I sharpened the pencils (for immediate use), I wanted to protect the points in the can. Thankfully the interior circle of the can was a perfect fit for a Spellbinder die – so a quick die cut of craft foam and the inside is soft.

In addition to pens & pencils, I added a skinny note pad and a card. The card is a wacky size so it would fit in the can.

The final bit in the can is a questionnaire where I ask the teacher stuff like ‘what is your favorite color’, and ‘do you like apples’. I’ll use the information when making other gifts throughout the year. If you are interested, you can download the questionnaire (PDF).

As for supplies, the stamps are all PTI (except the frame on the card – that is MFT). The DSP is all retired SU stuff. If you want to know something specific, don’t hesitate to ask.

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