Teacher Gifts
Remember a while ago that I posted about finding great little vintage advertising cards with the children on them? I found a use for them – I’m using them to make teacher’s gifts!
One card says, "Head of the class" and has a cute little girl in a red dress – the other says "Foot of the class" and has a sad little boy image. I color copied the cards at my local copy store, put them back-to-back and used them to make Christmas ornaments (on each ornament, one side has the girl and the other side has the boy):
I added some glitter to the red parts of the images and sandwiched them between two pieces of beveled glass then taped and soldered the edges. I added a few jump rings to hold a hanging chain and some red crystal drops. I also added some "black magic" finish to the solder to get an antiqued look.
I made several more – on one, I tried using a copper patina finish instead of the black magic, used beads instead of the crystal drop, and used a ribbon hanger. On the other one, I reduced the image to fit it between two microscope slides instead of the beveled glass (I had to cut off the words and add them over the image):
I love how these turned out – I hope the teachers like them too!