Christmas is THIS MONTH!!! Rather than run around the last week and get something impersonal for the kids teachers I chose to make a few thank you note cards. A pretty note card is always nice to have on hand. It makes it twice as nice if it is personalized AND hand made. The only thing I had to go out and purchase was the envelopes. Everything else was in my craft stash.
Supply list:
- Printed Cards
Click HERE if you would like to use my interpretation of this thank you card
- Envelopes
- Flat back rhinestones
- Craft bond
- Fine glitter
- Rotary cutter
- Fine paint brush
- Straight edge
- Butter knife
- Paper cutter
- Gross grain ribbon (not pictured)
Here is the craft bond that I used. Elmer’s Craftbond 4-Ounce Adhesives Spray Glue
It is aerosol spray. Be aware that it has a wicked over-spray. Don’t spray anywhere near carpet, the couch, any fabric in general or any place you don’t want dirt stuck. My husband heard me shaking the can and sort of freaked out. This stuff was banned from his architecture studio due to the over-spray. I think he was having flash backs.
Here are the envelopes I found at Office Max. Note the size. These will accommodate a 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of paper cut in half horizontally to make 2 cards.
Hello glitter. We have a love-hate relationship. I love your sparkly sparkels but you get EVERYWHERE!! No matter how neat I am with you and how much I clean up with wet towels I find you for weeks all over my house!! On the counters, in the carpet, on the babys’ head. Poor baby boy. But you are a super fine glitter and that makes you fabulous. Plus I used a 40% off coupon available for download at all times from A.C. Moore.com. You just got prettier.
Use your straight edge to cut the paper in 1/2 width wise.
Be very careful with the rotary blade. It is not called a blade for nothing! I can’t tell you how many fingernails I have nipped when I was not paying attention. So glad it wasn’t a finger tip!
I am using my paper cutter for this next step. You could have used your paper cutter
in the previous step but the blade in my slicer is too dull and I am to cheap frugal to replace it at the moment. So using what I have I pulled out my rotary blade and cutting matt. Nice crisp edges for me!
Using the BACK edge of my butter knife I score a crease in the top of the note card using the cuting groove in the paper cutter. Once again there is a specific scoring blade
that goes with this paper cutter
but I am too cheap frugal to get one. Especially when I have a butter knife that does the exact same job!
Look how nice that crease is going to be!
At this point you could be done with your thank you card. But I wanted to bump up the glitz on these cards so I am going to add some fine glitter and a rhinestone.
I created a ‘bowl’ with a piece of foil. You could also use disposable bowl for this step. I would advise against using a bowl that you will be wanting to use for any other purposes….like eating out of…as I am not real sure you will ever be able to get the sticky out of the bowl.
Next I CAREFULLY sprayed a small puddle of the spray adhesive in the foil. Don’t make the puddle too big as this stuff sets up quickly and you won’t be able to use it if it dries too much.
Using a small brush ( this one is a size 0).
[I will never be a size 0.]
Using a small brush, carefully add adhesive to the thickest part of the letter.
Add the glitter.
Tap off the excess. I like to flick the back of the card with my finger. Save the excess for the next card.
Lookin’ good!
Next use a bit of adhesive to add your flat-backed rhinestone. I chose to put this one on the dot of the letter. But you are welcome to put it where ever you want.
These are teacher gifts. Each teacher is getting 5 ‘Thank You’ cards and 5 with their first name on them. A single initial would be nice as well. Or you can do some more reasearch on each techer and do a monogram.
A monogram is laid out using the first initial of each name like this: First Last Middle.
It is common to have the last initial to be larger than the other.
A set of initials can be first and last OR first, middle and last initials.
These cards are created using a black ink. If you are a font junkie and want to create your own I used:
Edwardian Script set on 150 pt. for the capital letters.
Futura set on 30 pt. for the lower case letters.
Stacking the cards, I added the envelopes and a gross grain ribbon. Teacher gifts are DONE!
Or so I thought.
I had this flash to try to match the ink to the glitter. So I did a few sets with matching lilac ink.
For those of you who are all matchy-matchy on colors my RGB numbers are:
R: 167
G: 141
B: 242
So here you go. A side by side comparison of the black with lilac glitter and the lilac ink with the lilac glitter. The jems are all different colors as it was a multi pack that I bought. I liked to mix it up when it comes to the gems.
