A Wise Teacher

Design By Tami Mayberry

Materials

• Card stock: ivory, olive green
• Printed paper: coordinating double-sided plaid
• Antique-finish ink pads: brown, light brown
• Metal embellishment: "inspire"
• Mini copper round brad
• 1/16-inch hole punch
• Envelope template to fit a 7 x 5-inch card
• Paper adhesive
• Computer font (optional)

Cut a 7 x 10-inch piece of ivory card stock; score and fold in half. Ink edges with light brown ink. Cut a 6 3/4 x 4 3/4-inch piece of double-sided paper; with plaid print face up, fold lower right corner up. Punch a 1/16-inch hole in folded corner; insert brad to secure. Center and glue to card.

Use a computer to generate, or hand-print, a teacher-theme quotation on olive green card stock. Trim a 3 1/4 x 4 1/8-inch rectangle around quotation; ink edges with brown ink. Referring to photo for placement, glue to card. Glue metal embellishment to lower right corner.

Use envelope template to trace and cut an envelope from double-sided paper. With plaid side face down, score and fold envelope flaps; glue side and bottom flaps together.

Sources: Printed paper from Chatterbox Inc.; ink pads from Ranger; metal embellishment from Darice; Coluzzle envelope template from Provo Craft.

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