More Back to School Cards with Chalk It Up

By the end of the week my eight grandkids were now all back in school, ranging from fourth grade to ninth grade. As a retired reading teacher I still get excited about the beginning of school. When they were younger they used to read to me, but they all think they're too old for that now! But I can still send them messages of encouragement. Here are five cards all made from either the retired CTMH paper pack, Chalk It Up, and their related Picture My Life cards. The first two use retired CTMH stamps that I've collected for quite a few years.

I love the retired CTMH silhouette stamp of the kids walking to school. I stamped it on a 3"x4" PML card, matted it with the star background paper and mounted it on the 4"x6" PML alphabet card.

The last three are simple using sentiments that are part of the PML cards with a few embellishments-quick and easy!

This last one has a sentiment that's my favorite of the three:

Thank you for visiting! I hope you'll also encourage the students and the teachers in your life as they begin the learning adventures of another year!


I'm sharing this project with the following challenges:

Cute as a Button #37 - Back to School
Hiding in My Craft Room #314 - Back to School
Pink and Main Challenge #24 - School

Five Back to School Cards with Chalk It Up

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I retired from 30 years of teaching eleven years ago, but I still get excited about school this time of year. Today two of my oldest grandsons started back to school. By tomorrow all eight of them will be in school. According to one of the youngest grandsons, he's not ready to go back to school. It does seem to come earlier each year before some of us are even ready to let them go. Here are five of my cards I just made for back to school notes. I had some retired CTMH Chalk It Up paper and remembered I also had a set of  matching PML cards that can fit in scrapbook pockets that are 4"x6" or 3"x4." That helped my cardmaking go really fast! I think I've collected all of the CTMH school stamp sets since 2004, so I used quite a variety of them that I won't name.

Thanks for visiting! I'm sharing these cards with the following challenges:

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge #12- anything goes, twist Back to School
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Back to School
heARTful Stamping August Challenge - Back to School plus stamping
Inky Chicks #86 - use a sentiment instead of an image