Calendar gifts

You maybe remember me telling you that I had a bit of a mad dash on the evening before the last day of school before the xmas holidays - where I was trying to make wee treat bags for all the teachers. In the end it was a bit of a wasted effort because I couldn't get our great lump of a car out of the drive anyway due to the snow. So... seeing as I had a little more time, I decided to make little desk calendars for each of the teachers - I still have to make another one for the additional needs teacher who is in charge of the Lego Club that Scott goes to (but he's not there til Monday, so I have a bit of breathing space.) 


I decided to give the Wild Sprouts from The Greeting Farm an airing as they haven't seen the light of day in ages and I've missed colouring them.
This first 2 are for Willow's class teacher and the SFL assistant that looks after her...

Annika from TGF, coloured with promarkers.
papers, greeting and card candy are Craftwork Cards, cardstock is core'dinations, lace from stash

Maria from the Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers
Papers are from Panduro, greeting is PI, cardstock is core'dinations


The next 3 are for Scott's class teacher, the assistant who helps him and the SFL teacher...

 Miko from the Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers, 
paper is Echo Park Wintertime, ribbon, flowers and brads from stash, greeting is PI, cardstock is core'dinations

 Jade from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers
Paper is Daisy & Dandelion, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI

Miko from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers,
papers are from panduro, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is from PI


And this last 4 is for Faith's 2 nursery teachers and 2 nursery nurses...

 Odette from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers,
paper is Bo Bunny, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI

 Sassy Suzi from TGF, coloured with promarkers
papers are Craftwork Cards, cardstocj is core'dinations, greeting is PI, ribbon is from Angel Crafts

 Dahlia from TGF, coloured with promarkers
papers are panduro, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI

Nahla from Roll Call kit, TGF, coloured with promarkers
papers are Fine & Dandy from MME, cardstock is core'dinations, greeting is PI


so let's hope the teachers like them. Which one is your favourite?
Oh, and can I just apologise for the crappy pics, it was far too dark by the time I finished them this afternoon to take them in daylight and I couldn't be bothered rigging up the mini photo studio, so I just sat them on my desk in front of my laptop.


I'd like to enter into the following challenges..
Papertake Weekly - anything goes + lace (calendar 1)
One Stop Craft Challenge -  new beginnings (all)

Olive

I meant to make a card with this image last month for the DigiStamp Boutique's monthly competition, but time got away from me in the lead up to our holiday. So better late than never eh? Talking of late, I also used the challenge #60 sketch from  A Spoonful of Sugar, but again, I'm too late to enter that too :)

I also broke into some new stash that I bought a wee while back. If you remember, back to June, I took a wee trip out to Simply Create at Alford for their Sugar Nellie event and to see Judy doing her fab colouring demo's. Well, this fabulous 12x12 paper pad jumped into my basket and followed me home. Its from Panduro Hobby and its the Classic Tilda Papercraft Paper Stack, it has 25 sheets of double-sided paper and the quality is outstanding. Its not cheap, but its well worth the money.

 

I chose one of the sheets that had cameos on one side and white polka dots on pink on the other side, and chopped it in half to make a 6x6 card blank.

Image: Olive with Flowers by Sally-Ann Hancock @ DigiStamp Boutique, coloured with promarkers: warm grey 1-4; blossom, rose pink, cerise, apple, grass, terracotta, spice, apricot.

papers are all Tilda Papercraft Classic Paper Stack, plus grey core'dinations card. edges were distressed with Tim Holtz Distress Tool and the image card was inked with papermania ink. flowers were punched from same paper and card with EK Success retro flower punches them embossed and distressed. Buttons are papermania, pearls are Hero Arts, and the greeting as usual is daisy & Dandelion.