Sometimes I find parents do not understand that these Early Childcare Educators have a hard job! Taking care of a whole bunch of kids all day long, each child with different needs and demands. As much as I love my kids, I definetly wont be able to take care of 5, even MORE at a time, day after day after day.
So to all the daycare workers all around the world:I couldnt thank you enough for being avaiable and there so that we can go out and make some cheddah.
Here is what I made for the ladies:
I made 12 of these shadow boxes in just about 2.5 hours. So if you calculate that, I only had to spend 13 minutes per shadow box. Not bad eh???
To make the process fly by, I made these in an assembly line style, doing each step of the project 12 times instead of completing one project each time, then another and another.
1. First I cut out a piece of whisper white cardstock 1 3/4" x 4 5/8" twelve times. Using the flower image from the stamp set I stamped just the upper portion to the left, and reinked and stamped more of the image on the right in Soft Suede to all twelve pieces. 
2. Next using my wheel, I inked up in Soft Suede, and rolled the image first on scratch paper and then onto my image. That way it would stamp on softer, repeat with all the pieces.
3. Using the bird image again in Soft Suede I stamped all 12 pieces. Then on another sheet of whisper white, I stamped the bird again in Soft Suede, take a guess, yes 12 times again :)
4. Next, using bashful blue and and bordering blue, I coloured in JUST the flowers on the twelve 1 3/4" x 4 5/8" pieces.
Then on the twelve birds on the scrap piece of whisper white, I coloured the bird and branch using soft suede, bashful blue, bordering blue and cremy caramel.Cut out all twelve birds from the scrap cardstock and set aside for now.
* I got the image and colour inpiration from the talented Amy Celeno
5. On the twelve stamp images, using a sponge dauber I sponged the edges in either Soft Suede or Not Quite Navy.
I cut 6 strips each of Kraft and Bordering Blue Cardstock 2 1/2" x 4 5/8". I used my Eyelet border punch and punched both the top and bottom and then sliced in strip in half for a total of 24 strips of cardstock with the eyelet border detail.
6. Next I stamped my sentiment "gratitude" from the Define Your Life stamp set. Punched out using the Wide Oval punch and sponged with either Not Quite Navy or Soft Suede.
7. Attach the eyelet border strips to the top and bottom edge of all 12 coloured pieces. Cut out twelve pieces of designer paper 4 5/8"x4 5/8" for your mat for the shadow box. I used Bella Blue for this project. Ink the edges of your designer paper squares. Then glue all 12 stamped image strips to all twelve designer paper squares. I did not center the image as I wanted the sentiment to balance of the image, so I glued the images just a little bit more higher.
We are almost done, I know it seems like a lot of steps but I promise it was super fast! Now take all those cut out little coloured in birdies from before and use dimentionals to pop them ONTOP of the non coloured soft suede image of the bird on the main piece. did you follow me there?? eheheh.
Then I used dimentionals to pop the sentiment right below the branch.
TA DA!!! All done in no time!
Here is a close up of the image.
Oh, I totally forgot to tell you the cost of these gifts! Each gift calculated to only be about $1.60 each! Thats the price of the shadow boxes, cardstock and designer paper used! Amazing no?
I hope you all enjoyed, please dont hesistate to email me if you have questions with this project.
Oh, and dont forget tomorrow is the last day to place your order if you want to take advantage of my shopping offer on the right hand side.
Have a fantabulous weekend. I must get off the computer now, I have more gifts to whip up.
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