"Back To School" card for teacher friends

I finally put a really busy few weeks at work that were filled with long hours of working into the night and most of the weekend behind me, and got some time to relax, drink wine, finish some books I'd started reading, and paper craft. In case I haven't mentioned this before, I enjoy paper crafting and specifically making cards,  but I do NOT claim to be a great at it, a Pro or anything close to it.  It's a lot different that my profession and I find it to be fun creative outlet.  Now that I got that out of the way....  I have several friends who are teachers and were heading "back to school" this month so I wanted to make a cute card to wish them a great school year ahead:

Cards I made for a handful of friends that are teachers. 

 The card could also be modified and sent to an older student.  I really had fun making this card because I got to use 2 things I'd been wanting to play with

1) Stampin' Up Blendabilities Markers.  The red color I used on the dress and the apple was the Cherry cobbler assortment, and the color for her skin and on the chalk board I used the Skin tone assortment.  Like I said before, I am by no means, a pro at crafty coloring, but I do enjoy it!

 2) I also got to use my "Jen Girl" stamp set from the ANGIEgirls collection by Angie Blom at Unity Stamp company.  Here's the link:  http://unitystampco.com/shop/jen-girl/    If I had a magical bottomless bank account for stamp shopping, I would own the entire Angie girl collection.  They are so cute!  The "Jen Girl" set I used for this card actually has 5 separate stamps in it which makes it pretty versatile. My friends loved the card and the thought.  I antiqued/distressed some of the cards and not the others.  I think I preferred the "antiqued" look on the background, but I know it's not everyone's cup of tea.   I didn't have any scrapbook paper that had letters/writing on it, so I literally ripped a few pages out of an old, about-to-fall-apart dictionary I had laying around.  The cute pencil ribbon is from Michael's.   I absolutely love the feeling of sending a handmade card to a good friend and hearing how it made there day to get a surprise among the bills and junk mail.