simple teacher gifts
well, with our snow stormy weather, the girls' teachers won't be getting their christmas gifts until new years. with our crazy weather and school cancellations, we started christmas break 3 days earlier than planned! anyhow, these are the gifts their teachers will be receiving. this first one is a fun filebox from target, that emma and i altered a bit to customize and jazz it up a bit.
we added the flowers with a rhinestone brad... then added the prima rhinestone flourishes. the top damask is an flocked iron on design by sei. we tried to make it nice and sturdy for use in a first grade class.
the stocking is what torrey and i made for her teacher. we took a piece of large art paper, and traced our stockings and stamped the
damask design in blue (we made two for the front and back of the stocking). next we sewed the two pieces together to make the stocking.
for the top: we took fabric, lined it with fusable cotton batting, finished the edges and sewed it onto the paper stocking. to keep it simiple, we simply cut out the tag with the big shot, stamped it and added the letters. we attached it to the fabric with spray adhesive.
we used
diamond stickles to add a little sparkle to the stamped damask on the stocking. since she was in need of some teaching supplies, we stuffed the stocking full of teachers goodies!
sorry for the crummy pictures. that's what happens when you have lots of snowy days, not much light, and a TON of snow playing. :D
friday i had the honor of going to the mother's day luncheon a in emma's class. they made us beautiful paper hats, with hand made tissue flowers. we dined with our sandwiches and baby carrots. it was the best! then all of the kids read a couple of pages out of their "mom's many hats" books. too cute. emma had some pretty funny pages in there that i got a good laugh out of. gotta love a kid's perspective!
emma and her teacher - who, in my opion, is seriously one of the best teachers on the planet. she literally astounds stan & i every time we see her in action. :)
i'm thinking there should be a new gameshow called, are you taller than a first grader. i think it it were any other grade i'd be a sure loser. the third graders are already passing me up!
i {heart} recess
this week was teacher appreciation. and MAN, do we appreciate the girls' teachers! i made a couple of these little tins for them & filled it with a little gift card. it's really not enough to say the kind of thank you they deserve, but i guess it's the thought that counts. :)
we added the flowers with a rhinestone brad... then added the prima rhinestone flourishes. the top damask is an flocked iron on design by sei. we tried to make it nice and sturdy for use in a first grade class.
the stocking is what torrey and i made for her teacher. we took a piece of large art paper, and traced our stockings and stamped the damask design in blue (we made two for the front and back of the stocking). next we sewed the two pieces together to make the stocking.
sorry for the crummy pictures. that's what happens when you have lots of snowy days, not much light, and a TON of snow playing. :D
i took a few pictures of some quick (and easy to mass produce christmas tags) this afternoon as we're waiting for snow to actually accumulate so we can go sledding. so far no accumulation, but we did do something else cool. torrey was hanging with me, so we did some kids in photoshop lessons. we worked on brightening pictures, sharpening them and saving them for uploading and for print. we worked with levels, filters and blending modes. she knocked my socks off! so all of these photos were edited by torrey the amazing 8 year old!
all tag supplies are by stampin up.
and what makes a snowy day more fun that sweet santa's elf socks? i just think these are way too fun. hope your super saturday is as enjoyable as ours has been so far.
