quick teacher gift - emoji sticky notes

We all appreciate teachers and everything they do for our students. We also want to make sure we thank them, but so often its really busy, not allowing us to make a thoughtful gift. Well, this project has you covered. Its quick, easy, you can make the kids help with no worry, its personalized, useful, and thoughtful! WOW! That's a lot of goodness in one tag! :D

For my We R Memory Keepers design team project this week, I needed to make a teacher gift. Being a former teacher, I am all about sharing gifts that can be used and appreciated. These adorable emoji sticky notes are just the ticket! 

Using the new Emoji Punch Board from We R Memory Keepers, I punched out stacks of fun faces and made little sticky note pads. How cute are these?!?! 

A few other tools made quick work of these tags. Because I know teacher's need a little treat, I hung the tags from jars filled with candy. Trust me, it will be appreciated! :D For all the details, how-tos, some FANTASTIC tips, and how to make this gift totally personalized, see the full post on the We R Memory Keepers Blog.

All the best to your kiddos as they head back to school. Thinking of all you moms who dropped your kiddos off at college for the first time. This is always an emotional time of year-for me too. Here is to a wonderful school year everyone!

Sincerely Yours,

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Essentials by Ellen Holiday 2016 Release Hop + Giveaway

Hello, and welcome to the Holiday 2016 Essentials by Ellen Release Hop! I’ll be showcasing several of the new stamp sets and dies on my post today!

You should have arrived here from the fabulous Kittie Caracciolo. Once you are done entering for a chance to win here, head to the amazing Julie Ebersole!

If you get lost along the hop, please visit the CLASSroom blog for a complete list of all the designers.

Happy hoppin’!

I am SO excited to be sharing some of the beautiful new Essentials by Ellen products being released for the holiday season! Its been tough waiting to share these cards for over two weeks! 

First up is Fat Pants designed by the fabulous Julie Ebersole. Fat Pants stamp set also has a set of coordinating dies! Which, was fantastic news, as the inspiration for my card needed those dies! When I saw Fat Pants, I immediately thought of Christmas cards from the 40's and 50's. Check out how I made this card fill my vision.

Knowing that the Fat Pants Designer Dies cut slightly larger than the stamped image, I knew I could make a cool background by masking! I cut the ornament images from Masking Paper. Then I placed them on my card stock base. Candied Apple Distress Marker was colored on an acrylic block and I used a water brush to pick up the color and start creating a completely washed background. I love how the Candied Apple turns pink when watered down! Oh, and the masks won't work perfectly, but I love the vintage shabby look it created.

After removing the masks, I stamped the ornaments inside the white openings, going with a color palette straight from the 40's. The images obviously fit perfectly. I will be using this idea often!

Once the background dried, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment with black powder. I added stamped stars in the background with black ink. Marker lines were drawn from the ornament tops to the top of the card. And I finished things off with a few clear sequins. 

For my second card, I used Designer Dies Bird Shapes, once again by Julie Ebersole. There are two bird shapes in this set of dies, and I chose to use the larger of the two. I love the look of a dove. When I saw the stamp set, Season to Sparkle, I knew they would be perfect together!

I die cut the bird twice, once from white card stock and once from gold paper. I layered them together, slightly off center. On the white bird, I stamped a small snowflake from Season to Sparkle.

On the card stock base, a larger snowflake, also from Season to Sparkle was stamped repeatedly, to tie in with the snowflake on the bird. The sentiment was stamped and embossed with gold powder. A beautiful Christmas card for sure. One that would be easy to mass produce!

Time to head to Julie Ebersole's blog, but don't forget the giveaway!!

GIVEAWAY:

And, yay!!! I also get to give away an Essentials by Ellen stamp set!  The winner may chose ANY  Essentials by Ellen brand stamp set  (Maximum value $25 USD) currently in stock at Ellen Hutson.com  To enter my giveaway, please leave a comment on today’s post  by Tuesday, October 25th!

There is also a crazy good Grand Giveaway in the CLASSroom!  To enter, be sure to leave a comment there, also by 

Tuesday, October 25th!

ALL winners will be announced at the CLASSroom on Friday, November 4th! Please check there on that date to see if you are a winner and for further details on claiming your prize!

thanks for stopping by!

kimberly

Supplies for Hold On To Your Baubles card, affiliate links used:

Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Fat Pants by Julie Ebersole

Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies, Fat Pants by Julie Ebersole

Ranger Distress Marker, Candied Apple

Ranger Distress Ink Pad, Candied Apple

Ranger Distress Ink Pad, Peacock Feathers

Stazon Solvent Ink Pad, Jet Black

VersaMark Ink Pad

Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, Black

Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, 4 mm Cupped, Sparkling Clear

Inkadinkado Stamping Mask Paper, 5x7, 12 pk

Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush, Broad/Flat Brush Nib

Supplies for Peace card, affiliate links used:

Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies, Bird Shapes by Julie Ebersole

Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Season To Sparkle by Julie Ebersole

Bazzill Specialty Paper, Metallic Gold Matte 5pk

Delicata Ink Pad, Golden Glitz

VersaMark Ink Pad

Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, Gold

Scrapbook Adhesives 3-D Foam Squares, Small White

watercoloring video tutorial at The Classroom + a giveaway

Today I am thrilled to be the guest designer on the Ellen Hutson blog, The Classroom! I have a great video tutorial for you about water coloring heat embossed images. Its an easy, yet elegant technique that will help your Christmas card making along, because I know I am not the only one still working on finishing their cards! Please tell me I am not the only one! :)

The images from the set, Mistletoe & Holly, lent themselves perfectly to this technique. Such a gorgeous set of holiday images designed by Julie Ebersole! This set is a classic, one that I will hang on to for a very long time. Look at those fantastic images! They make me want to head right back in my office and stamp more! 

And now for a chance to win! Yay for prizes! Leave a comment on this post from now until 

Saturday, December 19 at 10 pm central. I will draw the name of one lucky commenter and you will win the prize above! How great is that?! 

thanks for stopping by!

kimberly

Supplies available at EllenHutson.com:

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copper thanks; Ellen Hutson Pin-Sights Challenge

I am thrilled to be joining the Ellen Hutson Pin-Sights Challenge this month! Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge is a monthly inspirational challenge based on a Pinterest Inspired photo that is located on the CLASSroom blog. 

The best part about this challenge is, you get to play along! A random challenge participant will receive a $50 gift certificate to the Ellen Hutson store. To be eligible, you must must use Essentials by Ellen products and you must use the photo badge as inspiration.

The colors of the challenge photo (above) totally inspired me to get creating! I made a huge list of everything I noticed in the photos, from colors to texture, to even design! Its amazing how much a photo can get your creativity flowing!

To create the background, I trimmed a piece of cherry wood veneer paper. I added two colors of Distress Stains in blues directly to the paper. Two coats seemed to cover better. In a couple of places, I even left a puddle of the stain for more depth.

The flowers are Essentials by Ellen Wild Garden Designer Dies, designed by the fantastic Julie Ebersole! They are so pretty! I cut them from MFT Stamps Tropical Teal card stock and also Sweet Tooth card stock. Watermark ink was applied to the white images and then covered in copper embossing powder. Each image was heat embossed twice to add more coverage. The flowers and leaves were arranged around a copper heat embossed sentiment. Fancy Thanks is a set of stamps from Essentials by Ellen and Julie Ebersole also! A few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh finished off my card. For a direct link to all the supplies used, please use the list at the bottom of this post.

I hope that you are as inspired as I was! To enter this challenge, visit the CLASSroom blog and enter your project using the InLinkz link up at the end of the post. You have until December 1 to enter! Cannot wait to see how you are inspired!

thanks for stopping by!

~kimberly

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