Teacher's notes..

You know it's bound to happen......I'm going to flood you with notebook ideas. :) Today I'm combining the notes sentiment from Take Note, the teacher's sentiment from Teacher's Apple and Karen Lockhart's Pencils stamp...a favorite of mine from Karen's collection of stamps. I've been saving this pencil patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket just for this project. I used my Copic markers to match my pencils in the jelly jar with the patterned paper. There's nothing like that school pencil yellow color to make you think of school and teachers.

I cut my image and embossed it using a Spellbinder's Rectangle Nesties die template. Glossy accents finishes off the pencil jar for a realistic touch. A tied Vintage White/Cream button was used on the word notes in place of the letter *o*. And check out the little tiny pencil above the words. That comes with the Take Note set...so cute! I used an EK Success border punch for the little scalloped edging under the words.

A perfect little gift for all the teachers on your list......Christmas presents solved!!

A little somethin' special for ya: Did you know that Ticonderoga pencils are the best pencils on the planet? Seriously. That's what Josey would say. They sharpen nicely, have smooth writing lead, good erasers.....the best. Get them. Pay a little extra to get *the gooder* pencils. Thank me later when you're not sharpening the crappy pencils down to the nub because the lead keeps breaking. ;)