Teacher Gift Idea

Good morning my scrappy little friends!   I'm hap, hap, happy today because I woke up to some snow this morning and last night during one of my insomnia moments I was able to complete teacher gift #1.  Yes this is another journal in a box, but a much more revised version.  While at Up the Street Scrapbooking one day I picked up a Spellbinders die set, best scrappin' purchase I have ever made with the exception of my Big Shot of course.  Yes!  You can use Spellbinders in your Big Shot, you just might have to play with them a little but \I discovered that if you put all the tabs on the platform and use the regular cutting plates you get a nice clean cut (I didn't have to add any additional layers).  Then to emboss I flipped the die over and ran through my BS again but this time removing one tab, using a standard cutting plate on the bottom, the embossing squishy thing and then the embossing plate on top (like you would use if using the embossing plates from Sizzix).  So needless to say I die cut twelve of the tabs along with twelve of the text paper labels and then I used my computer to print off the months on vanilla cardstock and cut them with my Word Window punch.  The little flowers were 1 3/4 inch circles punched out and then spiral cut and then re-spiraled into the flower and adhered with glue dots.  The flower centres are 1/2 circles cut from the reverse of the paper and a half back pearl.  Now let me talk about the heart embellishment... how cute did this turn out?  The place card holder pin (that's what I'm calling because I have no idea what it is) came in a kit I bought at Up the Street, I didn't even realize what it was until last night, but I love it and will be tracking down more of them.  So what I did with it is slide the heart and banner into the loop and then pushed the pin through the lace and into the box.  I'm really starting to realize that papercrafting gets easier with the more tools you have, but that gets expensive. 

Supplies...
Colours: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, and I added a little Kiwi Kiss in the banner
Paper: Basic Grey Just the Basics line, left over text paper
Stamps: Smash stamp (for the date), Pennant Parade (hello on heart tag)
Accessories: Big Shot, Spellbinders Blossom Tags and Accents, Word Window punch, 1 3/4" and 1/2" circle punches, Heart to Heart punch, Stampin' Sponges, half back pearls, glue dots, place card holder pin, black lace stolen from my mom's stash (tee hee), Tombow multi-glue
Dollarama: Mead cue cards, "recipe box" 

Phew, that was alot of work!  Of course I have left stuff out, I always do, so if you ever have questions about how I did something or what products I have used by all means contact me, I'm more than willing to share!  I hope the teachers really appreciate these gifts because if they don't they will get a mug filled with teddy bears and cheap chocolates next time *wicked laugh*.  Last night the boys and I worked on Christmas cards for their teachers, will be my next two shares.  I think you will be impressed.  Until then, E.