# School Is Cool

Next week the kids will be going back to school. As you can imagine both the parents and the kids have mixed feelings about this. 
My neighbour's 4 year old will be starting junior kindergarten. She is excited and nervous all at the same time - understandable right?!  

My card today features Mary J Teacher Angel from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. The card colours are not traditional school colours but I wanted to try something different.......and I didn't have school themed paper in my paper stash - gasp! so I had to step outside the box and challenge myself to find a way to use what I did have. 

I coloured sweet Mary J with alcohol markers and fussy cut her. I chose my lined background paper - appropriate for school right?! and used the school background stamp to create my patterned paper. A letter edge die helped on the edge of one piece to keep my school theme. All the edges are inked with matching ink. Next I designed and printed my sentiment on my computer and cut it out with a fishtail banner die. It is hard to see in the photo but I added some clear sparkle pen to her wings. Some simple twine and matching gumdrops finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Mary J Teacher Angel, School Background - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: Computer

Patterned Paper: Wood and Notebook - Simple Stories 

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Misti, white gel pen, clear Spectrum Sparkle pen, My Creative Time die, fish tail banner die - YNS, twine, gumdrops - YNS

Spectrum Noir Markers: FS1 FS4 TN2 TN4 IG2 IG3 IG4 CG4 DG3 JG6 EB6 EB3 EB5 TN1 EB1 EB2

                  

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