Teacher Gifts

For Christmas this past year, I gave my girls' teachers monogram note cards. I had a ton of fun making them! I put them each in a little box that Debbi from Stampin' Addicts shared with me! (Aren't you proud of me? I remembered where I got something from!) This set was given to one of Lydia's teachers, who's favorite color is blue. Marina Mist is my new favorite blue so I just had to use it! The flowers were stamped using the silver shimmer paint. I also got the silver scallop and the circle layer on the cards by punching them from white and then using a finger dauber, colored them silver! 

Stamps: Lovely Letters, Baroque Motifs

Ink: Marina Mist

Card Stock: Marina Mist, Whisper White

Accessories: Scallop, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle punches, finger dauber, silver

shimmer paint, Whisper White satin ribbon, dimesionals

Purple is the favorite color of Belle's teacher so Concord Crush was the color I picked to make her cards! Belle is so funny! She has always LOVED the color orange. As soon as she found out her teacher's favorite color is purple, her favorite color changed! Can you guess what her "new" favorite color is? Yep, Purple!! Oh, to be 4 again!

Stamps: Lovely Letters

Ink: Concord Crush

Card Stock: Whisper White, Concord Crush

Accessories: Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle punches, Eyelet border

 punch, Whisper White taffeta ribbon, Concord Crush ribbon

This last set was for Lydia's other teacher who's favorite color is green. This set is similar to the set I made for Jeanine this last fall. Different colors, of course but the same layout.

Stamps: Lovely Letters

Ink: Old Olive

Card Stock: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Whisper White

Accessories: Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle punches, Scallop trim punch,

Old Olive satin ribbon, Elegant Lines embossing folder

Because this card is hard to see, I took a photo of one out of the box.

I think all the teachers liked their cards. I even got one back as a Thank You note!

Happy Stampin'!

Shelley

Beer Mugs!

We made this card at one of my workshops. My hostess wanted to use the shimmer paint so I made this card and we added the shimmer paint to the foam of the beer mugs. This is a great guy card which aren't always the easiest for me to create. My hubby loved it!

 After I came home, I was looking at this card and thought it would be fun to step it up. I wish that I would have done this for my workshop but life goes on! I really like the way the step it up version turned out. I added sponging to the edges of the More Mustard and Whisper White cardstocks. I also textured the More Mustard panel. Those little things added a lot to the card!

Stamps: Cheers to You

Cardstock: Night of Navy, More Mustard, Whisper White

Ink: Stazon Black, More Mustard, Night of Navy

Accessories: Aquapainter, Shimmer paint White Frost, sponges, Night of Navy 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, Square lattice embossing folder, Big Shot 

So which one do you like better?

Shelley