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May

Teacher Appreciation Gift Card Holder

May

Hello Friends! Amy here from The Happy Scraps today. One of my very favorite things to create is Teacher Gifts. I love letting the teachers that my kids have know that they are very much appreciated. Sometimes it’s as simple as giving a gift card. Today I’m sharing with you how quick it is to make a cute gift card holder, the perfect way to say Thank you to those teachers that do so much!

I grabbed a piece of the Spring Fling Party Time Cardstock and cut it into 4″ x 6″. I picked out the Thank you from the Spring Fling Foiled Vellum Quote Cards to use with it.

I pulled out my sewing machine and stitched around three sides of the vellum.

It created this fun pocket, the perfect size for a gift card.

Using the Spring Fling Scattered Daisies Cardstock, I cut a circular spiral, so I could create a 3D flower.

I used a brown ink pad for the edges.

I started on the outer edge, and rolled the flower until I got to the center. I placed an adhesive dot in the center, and stuck the rolled flower down to it, to secure it.

Using another adhesive dot, I attached it to the front of the gift card holder.

I added a couple more flowers to it from the Spring Fling Puffy Sticker Flowers.

The last thing left to do was place the gift card in the pocket. Once I had it all finished, I decided that I wanted to use the brown ink on the edges of it as well, so I added that.

Not only is it perfect for holding gift cards, but it looks cute without anything in the pocket as well!

For the second card holder, I picked out the Spring Fling Patchwork and Spring Fling Lace papers and cut the Patchwork paper down to size for a pocket. The Lace paper was also 4″ x 6″ like the one above. I inked the edges of both papers.

I stitched the pocket on, stitching on three sides as well. I pulled a sticker from the Spring Fling Sticker Book, and used cornstarch on the back of it to take the sticky away. Then I mounted it on the card front with dimensional adhesive. Using a little bit of pink twine, I tied it around the label.

The gift card slide in the side of this gift card holder.

So whether you’re looking for a Teacher Appreciation gift or an End of Year Teacher gift, a gift card is always a great idea! Give them one for their favorite store, movie theater or restaurant. I’m sure they will love it!

Supplies:
Spring Fling Party Time
Spring Fling Scattered Daisies
Spring Fling Lace
Spring Fling Patchwork
Spring Fling Foiled Vellum Quote Cards
Spring Fling Sticker Book with Gold Foil
Spring Fling Puffy Stickers – Flowers
Pink Twine
Brown Ink
Scissors
Sewing Machine
Dimensional Adhesive
Adhesive Dots

Easy Teacher Gift

May

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Hi friends, Becki here, to share a quick gift that you can put together for your child’s teacher within just a few minutes. Today is the last day of school for my kids. I’m so excited for the lazy days of Summer but before Summer begins I want to make sure the teachers in our lives know how much we appreciate them. I put together a gift for each of my kids teachers with some refrigerated cookie dough and some supplies from the Home Grown collection.

I gathered a few supplies and got started. It only took me 20 minutes to put these gifts together.

I created a tag to go on the gift first. I used the frames from the photo garland kit to create the tags. To create the sentiment I used Thickers and printed the rest of the sentiment by printing on the patterned paper with my printer.

I laid out the Thickers on the frame and measured it so I knew where to place the printed text.

After I got the tags finished with printing, Thickers and a few other stickers. I covered the tubes of cookie dough with patterned paper.

I punched a hole in the tags so I could attach them to the cookie dough with a piece of ribbon.

I’m so thrilled with how these turned out! My kids are so excited to take these to their teachers today.

Thanks for stopping by the Pebbles blog today!

Supplies:
Home Grown Photo Garland 732818
Home Grown Thickers Coral/Ivy 732822
Home Grown Layered Flowers 732815
Partly Cloudy Patterned Paper PHGP-32805
Home Grown Puffy Bee Stickers 732814
Family Rules Patterned Paper PHGP-32807
Home Sweet Home Patterned Paper PHGP-32804
Family Time Patterned Paper PHGP-32800

Teacher’s Gift Box with Bow Tutorial

Apr

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It’s Mendi here today with a quick and easy gift idea for the special teachers in your child’s life. I love creating handmade gifts for my own kid’s teachers and I thought the Wooden Recipe Box from Pebbles Homemade collection was the perfect object to alter for this fun present.

I think personalizing gifts with the Teacher’s name is always a nice touch and it was easy to achieve this using the darling foam thickers from the Homegrown collection. I adore mixing my fonts and THIS cutting file was the perfect way to achieve this. I think it’s pretty cool that it covers all the acronyms you might need.

The colors in Pebbles Homegrown collection are a perfect fit for a school themed project. I love how well the colors compliment the school supplies that I added to my box and it’s a wonderful bonus that a basic box like this is able to serve so many different purposes from a recipe box to a phone/address box to a basic container to hold a multitude of different office supplies.

To embellish my gift box I created a simple 3-D bow using a tool you might already have in your stash: The Envelope Punch Board by We R Memory Keepers! I have included simple instructions below with a step-by-step picture tutorial.

Step 1: Cut (2) 6″ x 1″ strips. Line up the strip at the 3-inch mark on the punch board and punch notches from both sides of each strip.

Step 2: Adhere two sides of bow (wrong sides together) with liquid adhesive. This acts as a lining for your bow as well as adding stiffness to maintain it’s shape.

(Note: You can also reverse step 1 & 2 punching out the center after the 2 strips are adhered together).

Step 3: Line up the center of the bow at the 3-inch mark, punching each side on both ends.

Step 4: Gently curl each end toward the center. I used a pencil to gently curl it.

Step 5: Adhere the ends in the center with a bit of liquid adhesive or hot glue. I chose to staple the center afterwards for extra stability.

Step 6: Cut a 4.25″ x 1″ strip for the ribbon tails. Center the strip in the punch and notch each end as shown.

Step 7: Line the strip at the 2-1/8″ mark and notch each side of the ribbon tail in the center.

Step 8: Add liquid adhesive or hot glue to center of bow and adhere bow portion to ribbon tail.

Step 9: Thread twine through button using an embroidery needle, add a bit of glue to center of button and wrap button & twine around center of bow, knotting on the back.

Step 10: Use finished 3-D bow to embellish your favorite DIY or Home Decor project.