Cooking With Cricut Challenge #84 Teacher Appreciation Day

Last year for Teacher Appreciation Day I made a "Bouquet of Freshly Sharpened Pencils" and it was a big hit among my crafty friends and my daughter's teacher. So I thought I would stick with what works and make one again this year. I did go into a bit more detail this year, though. I had a very pretty bouquet finished when my six-year old told me it looked more like a baby shower bouquet than a teacher bouquet and asked for brighter colors.

This is a very quick, very inexpensive gift idea. The flowers are cut from Mother's Day Bouquet (as are the leaves and circles). The flowers and leaves are cut at 2" and the pink center circles are cut at .75". Simply cut the shapes. Adhere the pink dot to the center. Using a hole punch, make a hole in the center of the flower and stick the pencil eraser through. So simple!

The supplies for this project cost me $5: The bucket is from the dollar bin at Target, 2 packages of pencils, and a piece of foam from the floral section at the craft store.  (This year I stocked up on these $1 pails since I have so many different ideas of how to use them!)

The stamps is from a great set of teacher stamps that I bought from www.papertreyink.com

Head over to Cooking With Cricut and show us what you have concocted for the teachers in your lives! Coming from a family of teachers I can tell you how much they appreciate simple gifts when they come with a personal card with kind words showing that you do appreciate the love and energy the pour into your child!

I am also entering this into a coulpe of other challenge:

Creative Inspirations Paint (inspired by flowers) and Paper Playtime (Anything Goes!)

Cooking with Cricut Home Decor Hop

Welcome to Paper Crafting World and Cooking With Cricut’s Home Décor Blog Hop!  Our Design Teams are so excited to bring you a two-day hop that focuses on projects for your home – that’s right no cards or scrapbook layouts in this hop!  You should have arrived here from visiting Court at Court's Craft Corner.  If you’ve joined us in mid-Hop and would like to check out all the other fantastic projects head on over to Melinda’s Paper Crafting World   (http://www.cookingwithcricut.com) and start at the beginning.

For this hop I had so many different ideas of what I wanted to make, but landed on the one I actually NEEDED at my house - a way to keep my family organized. I spend a lot (probably too much) time on Pinterest and have been looking at how other moms seem to keep it together. I have adapted all the projects I have seen to come up with this for my family.

Here it is in use:

It was pretty easy to make and I love how it looks (and I hope I keep more organized with it!)

I bought the white board for about $10 at Target and bought a roll of their paper tape (found in the bulletin board section with all the magnets and tacks). I used the tape to mark out different sections on the board. The pad of paper is from teh dollar bin at Target as well (I bought several of the same one because I like how it matches, lol). 

The menu portion is a take on a system I had already been using. All of our meal ideas are written on the turquoise tabs. (These are cut from the Wild Card cartridge).  Using magnets I just put up all of our meals for the week right on the board. (The days of the week are circles from Cricut Classic Font, flowers from Mothers Day Bouquet and letters from Calligraphy Collection).

 All of the tabs are stored in these cute little envelopes (also from the Wild Card Cartridge). I have seen people use many different categories to sort their meals. I work in the evening, so my husband has to cook several days a week so I have to sort them by who is cooking (his skills in the kitchen are limited, shall we say!) I used Calligraphy Collection for the labels (on my gypsy, welded the letters together).

I am also a couponer (not extreme by any sense of the word, but I shop at a few different stores each week and have piles of coupons around the house pulled out for when I shop. So, I added a coupon section to my board. There is a heavy duty magnet for each of the major stores I shop at so i can pull coupons from my coupon filer and put them up on the board to grab before I head out shopping. The cut is from Mother's Day Bouquet and I just hand-wrote in the name of the stores on them.

All the words on this board are typed from Calligraphy Collection and I used my Gypsy to weld he letters together.

We hope you’ll link up your Home Décor project for a chance at winning one of our giveaways.  One winner will be chosen by random draw and three others will be selected by the Design Team.  Head on over to Cooking With Cricut  (http://www.cookingwithcricut.com) for the guidelines and the link up. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Head on over and check out what Jamie L. at Scrappin' 2 Baby Girls has cooked up!

I love this Stationary Box!

Well, for my Mother-in-Law for Mothers' Day I really wanted to make her something. I came across this tutorial to make a Stationary Box and adapted it to her taste and what I had for supplies. I absolutely love this and can't wait to make more of them!

I'm not putting any instructions here as they are all explained so clearly in the tutorial. I did make some adaptations, though. I didn't make an address book and put less pockets.

 

It has 6 cards, a book of stamps, a cute little pen and a bunch of clear stickers with greetings on them for her to add to the cards before she sends them out.

 

The box is made using 12x12 card stock. The original instructions use only two pieces, but I used some extra patterns.  I also added velcro dots to help keep the box closed better and they work very well.

The cover is also made of cardstock. I used Mother's Day Bouquet for the flower embellishment (as well as for all the cards). The cover sits on top of the box to help keep it closed.

Bouquet of Freshly Sharpened Pencils

My favorite line from you've got mail "I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address".

I have a fetish for school supplies. I love them. Really love them! The smell of pencils is intoxicating, lol. So, when I saw a friend post this project I had to do it too. It's teacher appreciation week and we're sending this in for my daughter's teacher in the morning.

The flowers are 2 inch flowers from Mother's Day Bouquet and the paper is a combination of random scraps. Then I just used a hole punch in the center and stuck the eraser through.  The projects cost me $2 ($1 for pencils and the bucket was from the $1 bin at Target).

I'm entering this at the Fantubulous Cricut Challenge to make a project with at least 3 flowers.
Also at Cooking with Cricut for a similar challenge that must include purple (I know you can't see it well, but there are at least 5 purple flowers in there, lol!. Also at Amber's Crafts and Stuff where the project is to make a project for a special lady (my daughter's teacher!).