Greetings! Kids are going back to school now. From kindergarten to college, millions are starting a new year. My son is a sophomore in college this fall so there's no need to make a teacher card but old habits die hard! I am feeling nostalgic and I miss my son who has been gone a week now. So I decided to use one of my old favorite apple dies and create a card for a deserving teacher.
I started this card by cutting out 7 apples and pieced a stem and leaf to each one. I made a white A2 card base and dry embossed about 75% of it, leaving the cardstock plain toward the top where I was going to put the sentiment and brads. I arranged the apples over the embossed area and trimmed off the edges where they overlapped the card edge and where the embossing ended at the top. I added a couple Glasses Brads to help fill the space.
Then I cut a Thanks strip and applied it at border where the embossing ended. I cut another one in red and glued just the thanks word to the top of the first thanks die cut. I added Book Brads, Apple Brads, and Sketched Owl Brads. Finally I stamped the You're Owlsome on the front and I stamped "for being my teacher" on vellum. I cut the vellum into a strip and decorated it with green Cut Jewels on each end. I applied it to the card by dabbing glue behind the bling so the glue would be hidden.
