Teacher Thank You!

Welcome to June!! Can you believe it is already June?!!   Look what I made for my child's teacher. It is that time of year again...the end of school. I always try to come up with something special for my children to give to their teachers to show how much we appreciate them.  As you probably already know I have 5 kids and so that can add up pretty quickly. 

So I decided to recycle a box I had around the house. I re-covered it with some fun, brightly colored papers and added a ribbon from my stash. I stamped out a vase of flowers from the French 50's Cafe set from Sheena Douglass' - A Little Bit Scenic collection. I figure what is more perfect to give to your teacher than some flowers - right?

I colored the image with my awesome, ridiculously reasonably priced Spectrum Noir markers. And then I cut a piece of coordinating card stock and the image out with some dies. I layered them and then attached them to the lid of the box and then topped it off with a yellow flower.

I filled the box with some chocolates and then to take it over the top a bit, I made a gift card holder out of a mini paper bag. I used some matching patterned papers and ribbon to decorate it. I stamped out "thank you" in the corner. I found a fun "chalkboard" tag in my stash and layered a fussy cut apple and button onto it and adhered it to the bag. I pulled out one of the cute little clothes pins I have in my stash and went over one side of it with some Versamark ink, then I added some Stampendous Red Dragon embossing powder and heat set it. I wanted it to be sparkly red and it is!!

All there was left to do was to pop a little gift card into the bag and I used my little clothes pin to make sure the card doesn't fall out. I just clipped the card to the side of the bag. Isn't it cute!! I just love how it turned out. I can see me making a ton of these little cuties.    And with 5 kids, it looks I will have to!!  lol

Last day of school is Thursday.  My BFF and her family are coming on Thursday to visit for a nice long weekend!!  Then they leave and my aunt and uncle and some cousins are supposed to arrive the same day and stay for a week.  Then it is my son's birthday.  Next I go on vacation with my hubby and another couple to Oregon and then back home and immediately get in my RV and drive to Oklahoma with 3 of my kids, 3 dogs, a bird and a bunch of stuff!!  Phew!  This month is going to rush by.

Is your month going to be busy too??  I am hoping to get a bunch of scrapping done this next weekend while Denise is here visiting to help tide you all over whenever I am gone this month.  I can't wait to scrap with her!!  So nice to get to scrap together.

You guys know how much I love Crafter's Companion and how much I am trying to grow the Challenge blog so I hope you can find time in your busy schedule to join in on this month's Sunshine/Yellow challenge on the Crafter's Companion Challenge blog. You could be the lucky winner of a $30 gift card to our online store!!

Until next time...happy scrapping!!!