School Teacher’s Gift | Silhouette Cork Sheets
As the end of term approaches, the question of what to give as a teacher’s gift arises. I hope this quick and easy idea helps. This frame was very quick to make and I think would make a treasured gift from any child.
I have used cork sheets which are 5″ x 7″ thin sheets of cork adhered to a thin fabric backing which has adhesive on. After cutting your shapes you are able to peel them from the backing sheet and add to your project.
After deciding to make a frame as a teacher’s gift I browsed through teacher related designs and found one that was a split apple – perfect for what I needed it for.
I opened an A4 design space and drew an 8″ x 10″ rectangle as that was the size of my frame.
I then added the split apple to this.
The next step was to choose a suitable phrase to be drawn with a sketch pen.
I drew a rounded corner rectangle 4 ¾ ins wide and ¾ ins tall and wrote the teacher’s name inside.
The phrase came with lots if different sized stars dotted about but I only wanted the larger ones as I thought the cork might struggle with tiny ones so copied the larger star and duplicated it around my design.
I removed the stars and apple from the design and changed everything I wanted drawn to blue. Once drawn I used a gold and silver gel pen to colour them in.
Once drawn I used a gold and silver gel pen to colour the letters in.
I changed my design space to 5″ x 7″ as that is the size of the cork sheets and set out the shapes I wanted to cut in cork.
After cutting the shapes I added them to my frame.
I was really impressed with how clean the cork cut. It did have a few cotton strands left on the stars but these were easy to snip off.
I don’t have any school aged children so am going to give this to my friend who is an Art Teacher as I think the phrase is perfect for her job.
– Karen Moss –
