Teacher Gift Packages

I've made some card sets for my children's teachers and wrapped them in the Chevron Bags with a little Christmas tag!  I used the stamp set from the November paper pumpkin kit. They are all ready for my children to give tomorrow!  Stay tuned to see what card sets I made!

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Personalized Notecard Holder

I love making these personalized notecard holders for teacher gifts, birthday gifts, and thank you gifts.  They are perfect for any occasion!  We made these notecard holders at my stamp club last night with the Good Morning Sunshine DSP and Jumble Alphabet - both of which are part of Stampin' Up! May Scrapbooking promotion - which you only have 2 days left to get in on!

Here are the directions:

Note cards:

• 4 - 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card base
  
• 4 - 5 1/4" x 4" Whisper White cardstock
  
• 4 - 1" x 4" piece of designer series paper
  
• 4 - Scallop Squares (punched out) and 4 - 1" x 1" pieces of whisper white cardstock

Note card holder:

• 8 1/2" x 10" piece of cardstock for cover
• With the 11" side going across the top, score it at 5 1/4" and 5 3/4"
• With the 8 1/2" side going across the top, score it at 6" and 6 1/4"
• 5 1/2" x 4 3/4" piece of cardstock for the cover
• 5 1/4" x 4 piece of designer series paper for cover
• 5" of ribbon
• 2 brads to hold the pockets together
• Chipboard Scallop Square covered with dsp
• 2x2 piece of whisper white (for the cover - stamp initial on)

Start with Cover and fold on all score lines.  Cut on the 5 1/4" and 5 3/4" score lines from the bottom up to the 6" score line and trim off the tab in between to create the inside pockets.  Use brads to hold the pockets in place.  Wrap ribbon around the holder in line with the brads and adhere a glue dot to back of the brad and place ribbon over the brad to hide it.

Stay tuned for some annoucements next week!

Teacher Apprecation Gifts

Well this week I caught a bad cold and my head is so stuffed up I feel like it is going to explode! I can't take very many medicines since I'm still nursing, so I just have to tough it out and lay in bed all day while my play peacefully on the other side of the house. Ha! Life goes on even when you're sick, eh?

I did manage to sit down last night and make some teacher appreciation gifts and cards since today is the last day of Teacher Appreciation Week. I chose a monochromatic scheme of soft sky for my oldest's teacher and barely banana for my kindergartner's teacher. I embossed the heart and thank you saying from Simply Said in white and added some ribbon.

I also made these cute little post it note keychains that I saw on Angie's blog chick n' scratch. She has a great tutorial on how to make them. I personalized them by stamping a letter from Lovely letters on the front. I love monogramed gifts!

I decided to make one of them a little different and used my current favorite set, Live Your Dream. Have a great weekend everyone!

Teacher Gift

I have been working furiously on gifts, especially gifts for my son's teachers. They both have great teachers this year and I really appreciate all they do! This one is for my kindergartner's teacher, Ms B. I made the tote that I saw on the On Stage Magazine. Then I put three cards that we make at our last group meeting inside.

For the tote, I started with a 10 1/2" x 8 1/2 piece of Designer Series Paper from Notations No. 2 and scored vertically at 1 1/4" from each side and horizontally at 4 1/2" and 6". I cut from the vertical edge on the 4 1/2" and 6" score line to the 1 1/4" score line and then folded the sides up together. The sides overlap, but do not meet the edges.

Clear as mud? That's what I thought...so, I drew up a template:

I punched out some tabs with the Round Tab punch and added some strips of dsp to create the handles. I ran a piece of wide olive grosgrain ribbon up the middle and hung a mini envelope (that I created with the Mini Envelope Template) with some gold cord.

Then I stamped "b" on old olive and cut it out and placed it on my mini envelope and stuck a little thank you note inside.

For the cards we used Apple Cider dsp, Office Accoutrement, the round tab punch, the spiral punch and the scallop punch.

I hope she likes it!