For the next couple of months, I am going to be finding new purpose for lots of items I've collected (tea boxes and tins, chipboard backings to pads of paper, gift boxes) and the papers that have been around much too long with my love for them keeping me from using them. I will be crafting up a storm to create items for a fundraiser for Operation Smile. Can't wait to show you what I'm going to create!
Here's something I created already. Hope you like it!
This card features embossing technique (the dotted background), inking (to make the card "sorbet" color as a base around the dots), hand stitching (in "tulip" embroidery floss around the stars) and 3D elements with the letters of the word "teach" popped. The ribbon keeps this card closed, but then it opens as a standard side-fold card. As it measures 6x6 inches and was going to be hand-delivered, I made the envelope out of a coordinating piece of patterned paper. This was a thank-you card for pre-school teachers for my son, so I made an insert piece of coordinating paper for the children to sign so they wouldn't have difficulty writing over the "bumpy" side of the card, and then I adhered it after all the children had signed it. Made three for each teacher, and all the families loved it and each teacher said it was spectacular.
