Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Thanks Teacher Bookmark



Tracy over at Craft Junkie Too asked us to create end of school teacher gifts.  This is what I came up with.  I cut the bookmark from the Plantin' Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge at 7 inched wide (turn the fit to width button on your Expression and then set the dial to 7 inches.)  

The apples were cut from the Country Life Cartridge at 2.42 inches - but you could just cut them at 2.5 - I used a Gypsy.  For the apple on the left I added some Glossy Accents to make it shiny.  The apple on the right I added some Xmas Red Stickles to make it sparkly.

I used some foam Thickers to spell out "thanks."  I had to fiddle with them a lot to get the placement right, but I think it came out kind of fun and still easy enough to understand.

Along the top I tied some pretty green and white ribbon and added some self adhesive green bling from my stash around the circle opening.  

For the finishing touch I went around the edges with a red gel pen.

To be honest I'm not sure how well it would work as a real bookmark because of the depth of things like the Thickers... but I still think it's very cute.  Be sure and stop by Craft Junkie Too today to see what the other gals created!!

7 comments:

1 Stacy said...

Amber,
This is super cute, I like the touch of the gel pen
Hugs
Stacy

2 KardsbyKadie said...

Amber: LOVE your teacher appreciation gift - How FABULOUS are these. Would be a great gift to make multiples of. Might just have to CASE this idea for all my grandkids teachers. Thanks for sharing! Kadie (your fellow design team member)

3 Craftyhomemade said...

Amber, super cute bookmark. Love the glossy on the apple.

Indira

4 Unknown said...

This is adorable - what a great idea to add the gloss to the apple!

5 abusybee - DoubleClick Connections said...

Great book marker!

6 Unknown said...

Super cute! TFS!

(fellow CJToo DT member)
craftin-on-my-door.blogspot.com

7 Tara said...

Great job! I love the apples (maybe it is the teacher in me lol)
Tara