Thanks for Being a Great Teacher

The theme for the current Lawn Fawnatics challenge is to create a scene.  With school ending here on Monday and my new Village Heroes stamp set from Lawn Fawn in hand, I decided to make a scene with a school theme.  I colored up the school bus and schoolhouse from the Village Heroes set with Copic markers and added in some trees and a car from the Happy Village stamp set, too. The colored images were cut out with my Scan 'n Cut machine.  After creating a background on a light blue card base featuring a green stitched hill and a simple black street below it, I played around with the arrangement of the images before settling on what you see here.  The images were adhered with foam tape for dimension.  To fill in the scene, I cut a pair of shimmery white clouds with dies from the Plane and Simple die set and made a sun to tuck beneath them with a small yellow pinking circle die cut.  The "thank you for being a great teacher" sentiment, created with text from the Village Heroes and Thanks a Bushel stamp sets, was stamped just above the dip in the hillside.  A narrow strip of red gingham patterned paper was adhered to the bottom of the cardfront to bring in some more red to go with the sweet schoolhouse image. It doesn't really fit with the scene, but gives the design a finished look.

Materials Used:

Happy Village, Village Heroes, and Thanks a Bushel stamp sets, Plane and Simple dies (Lawn Fawn); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); markers (Copic); Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, and Basic Black cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Bright Buttercup cardstock, Pure Poppy patterned paper (Papertrey Ink); Crystal Stardream metallic cardstock (The Paper Cut); pinking circle dies (Spellbinders); white gel pen; foam tape