One of my customers was telling me recently how hard it was for her to find any school related embellishments for her scrapbooking. I told her that I always make my own embellishments.

I decided to do a few for her to get her going.

The apple is a 2 1/4″ circle with the top and bottom cut out slightly with just a curve of my scissors. The leaf is from the sunflowers dies. The ruler is diecut from a retired bundle called Nailed it. The scissors I drew by hand on scrap paper and then cut them to how I wanted them. I used the retired bird punch to punch the centre of the handles first, then cut around that. Did you notice the little screw on the scissors?

The screw is a stamp also from the Nailed it bundle.

The paintbrush I handcut and then used a corner rounder punch to do the end. The top of the paintbrush is from the bird punch. The crayons are just a strip of card, measuring 7 x 1.2 cm. The top of the crayon is punched out using the top of one of the retired gleaming ornaments punch duo. Then I just trimmed a narrow slither of each side, so that it looked more like the tip of a crayon. The letter and numbers are from the Playful Alphabets dies.

I think the bright colours work really well on these embellishments. I used Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Gorgeous Grape, Pacific Point, Smokey Slate, Pear Pizzazz, Flirty Flamingo, Highland Heather, So Saffron, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso.