Thank You, Teacher

Addicted To CAS Challenge #144 is up and running with code word: APPLES. ATCAS Design Team Member, Anja of Scrappietoo is challenge host.

The incredibly wonderful and talented Ksenija is Guest Designer. Her work is Fabulous. I am always inspired by her creativity. Please stop by Ksenija's blog to say hello. You are sure to be inspired as you visit!

Don't forget, as always, Happy Little Stampers is our Sponsor,

and Kylie is generously awarding the winner  a $20.00 gift certificate to the store!

Please remember that this is a CAS challenge. Here is a definition to remind you:

For my card, I used an image and sentiment from the Teacher's Apple stamp set from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the apple image, fussy cut and mounted it on a die cut made with Paper Smooches Notebook Basic die and patterned paper from Authentique's Curiousity Collection.

Please head over to the ATCAS Challenge Blog and see what Ksenija and the Design Team have come up with to inspire you. Join us in the gallery to share your creation, and for a chance to win!

Fourth Grade Memory Book

Each year, for the last four years, a friend of mine and I have worked with the kids in our children's classes to make memory books for their teachers as an end of year gift. There are two classes and 2 teachers. I have twins, so our family always has both teachers. Emile distributes the card stock to the class through our kids, and she makes photo collages from the year's activities for the book. I make the cover. The kids write, decorate, draw, attach photos - whatever they wish to do to contribute a page to the memory book. We decided that this would be our final year doing this. We are so glad we gave it one more go. One of the teachers was a brand new teacher. She did such a wonderful job with fourth grade. The kids loved her and she did so many great projects. As I read through the kids' memory pages, it was so evident that she really made an impact. The other teacher is a seasoned teacher. This was, however, the first time she received a gift like this from the hearts of the kids, and she loved it.

I forgot to take a picture of it at home, so here is a quick shot of it that I took with a colleague's camera. I CASE'd THIS creation from Theresa Momber using Back to School from Gina K. Designs. I stamped the globe and microscope images and used the masking technique to place the globe behind the microscope. I stamped the books image, cut it out and popped it up with dimensionals. I used Copics for coloring. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Techer's Apple. I really love the way this came out, and I am so glad Emile and I did this one more time. The teachers were both very touched by this gift of the heart. The children were very proud of their memory book. It was a great way to end a very happy fourth grade year!