Sunday, June 3, 2012

Learn and Play -Cascading envelopes

Wow - May was a crazy month!  I was so happy with all I got done on National Scrapbooking Day and the week following but then I didn't have a chance to make anything the whole rest of the month!  It was the last month of school and I am so happy to say now it is summer!  I am looking forward to staying home with my girls and getting my yearly dose of stay-at-home mommyhood!

To end each year, I make the group thank you card for our daycare sitter.  She is a phenomenal lady and we like to get her a gift for taking such great care of our kids all year long.  We are all teachers and she is a teacher's wife so the school year only schedule works great for all of us! I have made a word book and an exploding box in the past.  This year I saw something called cascading envelopes and wanted to give that a try. Here is the final product:

There are five envelopes, one for each child plus a final envelope for the parent thank you.  I decorated the envelopes by adding the phrase "Learn and play at Tara's" down the fronts of the envelopes.  I used the DCWV Animal Crackers paper stack for the background papers.

Learn from Out of Character at 2.75"

& from Letter Envy at 2"

Play from Out of Character at 2.75"

@ from Letter Envy at 1.75"

Tara's a mish-mash of letters from Out of Character, cut between 2" and 3"  The shadows are hand cut.

In each envelope, there is a thank you from the child. On one side is their picture (my daughter pictured here) and on the other side is their thank you along with a drawing from them.

The back side of the envelope looks like this:

When the whole thing is folded up and wrapped with Trendy Twine, it looks like this:

And from the side:

One thing I learned a little too late is that the thicker your project, the more envelopes and embellishments, the farther apart you should glue your envelopes.  I really would have loved to have my first envelope seem farther apart so it doesn't bow so much but live and learn. :)

She enjoyed it and I hope you do too!

11 comments:

  1. Oh, my goodness! What a fabulous project! You have found a use for "Out of Character"!!! How cool is that! Love everything about your cascading envelope project!
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  2. This is SO creative! I love it.
    Great choice of papers too. But, I'm sure none of the children are ever wild animals for her. He he!

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  3. Wow, what an amazing project. I love all of the fun colors you used. Love the use of the twine too!

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  4. Very creative and Tara now has all her kids and their thank yous in one cute package!

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  5. WOW!!!!!!!!! I saw something like this from SEI and wanted to make one now that you've made this I can see how it's done and scraplift it.

    GREAT JOB I love the details and the pretty paper.

    Enjoy your summer.

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  6. Thanks for a fun idea for my son's teacher! Your gift will be a treasured keepsake. It's wonderful!

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  7. What a great project for a wonderful caretaker. Hope you are starting off your summer good.

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  8. Great project! It's wonderful that each child has their own thank you card with their picture. This is a gift Tara will surely treasure!

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  9. Sounds like she is a real gem!! Well, you made a fantastic project for her! Using Letter Envy and Out of Character together gets you a GOLD STAR!!! Great colors too!

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  10. You did a great job on using those carts, I look at them both and just say yuk. Maybe I should look again

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  11. Terrific job - I love your cascading envelope and how each child had an envelope to his/her self. Wonderful and thoughtful gift!

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