Teacher project

Hello my crafty friends!! I finished up a project I made for Lil Tony's speech therapist. She has been so wonderful this year and I am sad it is coming to an end. Not only will she not be his therapist next year but she won't even be at the school, she is moving back to Illinois. I am happy for her because that is where her family is. Straight out of college last year she moved to Virginia to work and she really has had no one here. She will be very missed though!!!!

Anywho, I used May's kit to make this project and I really like the way it turned out. I will first give credit where it is due and I found the candy holder from Handmade from my heart and I found the flower pot idea from May Arts blog.

I really wanted to use Echo Park's Summer Days collection and other products from Artful Delight's May kit.



***EDIT: Took new pictures, what a world of difference a little sunlight will do****
I am totally not happy with the photos but not only is it rainy and gloomy here but I can't find the cord to my camera to upload the good pics I took. So sorry.

I really like the way this turned out and the gloomy faded pictures don't do it justice.

The original flowers from May Arts blog used some ribbon for the leaves but I didn't have any so I used twine. Also one on May Arts blog used wooden dowel rods for the stem but I used pencils and I covered them with the twine. That way they can be functional. They certainly wouldn't be a daily pencil but something she could grab if she needed to write something down real quick. The flowers are SVG files that I bought from My Grafico. The "#1 Teacher" was cut with my Cricut and the George and Basic Shapes cartridge. The box is filled with Hershey's chocolate nuggets. And the teacher's name is spelled using the alpha stickers from the Summer Days collection kit which was included in Artful Delight's May kit. (sold out)

The green leaf attached to one of the flowers says "Thanks for helping me grow this year." (which was also scrap lifted from the May Arts blog flower pot)

I used a pot that I bought from Michaels for 0.99 and filled with some glass balls to hold the pencils in place. I used some of the stickers from the Summer Days collection to decorate the pot.

I really hope she likes it!!

Well that's all I have for today, be sure to stop by tomorrow, I will have a project to share from my DT using Artful Delight's June kit.

Happy Crafting!!

So this is what I have been doing.

So this week has been a bit crazy. I am beginning to feel overwhelmed. We are going out of town on Sunday for a week to visit my family. I haven't seen most of my family in 7 yrs, I am so totally excited. And you know when you go on vacation you want your house in order before you leave. So I am frantically trying to get everything in order. Laundry and dishes done, clean the house, organize everything and make sure I pack.

We are leaving at 10pm Sunday, it will take 12 hrs to get to Illinois. We chose to make an overnight trip of it since we have 4 kids and the 2 toddlers may not take to sitting (awake) in a car for that long. This way they can sleep most of the way. I hate that they will be sleeping in the car seats but again, not sure I can handle them awake for the whole 12 hrs. LOL!

Tomorrow is Nicki's (my 13 yr old) last day of school since we will be leaving Sunday. I made each of her teachers a little gift. She has 10 that she wanted to give them to. I made little post-it note covers and gave them a Hershey candy bar.(don't mind my MESSY craft desk in the picture) I used pattern paper from Sassafras to cover 4x4 coasters. I bought them from several months ago and finally found the perfect thing to use them on.

I used my Bind-it-All and some 3/4 inch silver O-wire to bind them together. Then I just adhered a Post-It note pad inside. I ran out of my Tombo Mono Multi Glue so I had to use my Crystal Effects. Worked just as good.

I used my Cricut to cut out a circle and scallop and then used my Lovely Letters Alphabet stamp set from Stampin' UP! and put the last letter of her teachers name on it. We bought some Hershey candy bars and took the outer wrapper off. I cut some cardstock and used my scallop punch on the edges. Using my Cricut again I cut ovals and scallop ovals and stamped a sentiment on the top. The sentiment is from Basic Grey, I'd Pick You.

Voila, there is 10 gifts for Nicki's teachers. Today and tomorrow I will need to focus on getting my Father's Day cards made. I need to make one for my dad and my brother. I usually only have time to make one card a day. I would like to make a bunch of cards and be able to have one pre-posted everyday but I won't hold my breath. LOL! That seems like a lot to get done on top of everything else I need/want to do.