Teacher Thank You Cards & gifts!

Who else is the homeroom/class mom? I have been the class mom at preschool for the better part of the past 6 years. One of the things that I do at the end of the year is organize the class gift (usually a spa gift certificate) and get the photo album/scrapbook and cards ready. This year, because of the trip abroad, I was CRUNCHED for time. Really crunched! One mom took some photos of the kids class and printed them up for me (HUGE HELP).

Here are the goodies I came up with:


This is a large 5x7 card for the class to sign for the teachers. It is a white base with patterned paper. The sentiments are from Never at a loss 4 words by Kitchen Sink Stamps. I stamped the sentiment with chocolate chip ink on bashful blue paper. Ticket corner punched the corners of the blue, mounted it on chocolate chip paper, added bashful blue brads on all four corners. I used chocolate chip wide grosgrain ribbon (stampin' Up) to the card, added some bashful brads to the edges and then mounted the sentiment atop the ribbon with dimensionals. Such a simple card.
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{supplies}
paper: whisper white, bashful blue, chocolate chip, wild asparagus/my minds eye dp
ink: chocolate chip
misc: brads (SU), dimensionals (SU), ribbon (SU), ticket corner punch (SU)
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This other card is for the other preschool teacher. Again, started with a white 5x7 base, added a strip of designer paper to the side (green), then a strip of designer paper (flower) to the front of the card. I used a leftover scrap of the green designer paper for the main sentiment. Did you ever find yourself in a rut? Try stamping your main sentiment on something OTHER than white. It makes the card look so different! I mounted the green scrap (which I die cut with nestability scalloped oval) on a scalloped cut white piece. It is opposite what I would normally do, but I love the look! I used some brads (which didn't really match, so I colored them with my copic markers) on the two sides of the oval sentiment. Sentiment is from Kitchen Sink Stamps {never at a loss 4 words} I used some celery gg ribbon and tucked it around the designer paper and adhered it with some adhesive.

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{supplies}
stamps: Never at a loss 4 words {kitchen sink stamps}
paper: whisper white, wild asparagus/my minds eye
ink: always artichoke
misc: dimensionals (SU!), ribbon (SU!), brads (non su!), copics (to color brads), nestabilities



Finally, the coaster/chipboard books which I made for the teachers. It was a great help to have one of the moms take/print photos of the kids. I merely cut designer paper to 4x4 squares, corner rounded the edges and adhered it to the chipboard coasters. I used my crop-adile to punch a hole in the corner and tied a ribbon through. All the wording was printed on the computer. I used scalloped punches (mega and giga square) to punch out the cover page and it's coordinating mounting piece. The kids names (inside) the book were printed with the same font/color and merely mounted next to the photo. Each photo was cut down to a 2.5 x 2.5 inch square. The mom took them in front of a blooming spring bush, so the lush green color really looked nice (and universal) throughout the book. I used some scrap ribbon from my supply and finished the book!

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{supplies:}
paper: my minds eye/wild asparagus, perfect plum, whisper white
ink: computer font
misc: scalloped square punches (marvy), corner rounder, crop-a-dile, chipboard squares, ribbon