I am a big proponent of spoiling my children's teachers. They do so much for my kids! I am the mom who collects money and photos at the end of the year for class gifts. I decided this year that I would make a scrapbook for the teacher. I have enough designer paper to decorate Saratoga county, so why not! You can't take it with you - you HAVE to use it, right?
This paper is from my Costco slab. I swear I will use one of my three slabs in full one day. Progress - this used several sheets. What I love about that slab is that there are a few pieces that coordinate so nicely! This paper from the cover is just so fun - it screams happy. Isabella's teacher is just that type: fun, loving, happy.
I took the 12x12 sheets and cut them into 6x6 squares. The covers (front and back) required a little more sturdiness, so I used a piece of chipboard and cut it down to a 6x6 square. I found the 12x12 chipboard on the back of a pack of Stampin' Up! designer paper. Check your designer paper packs - I am sure you have some chipboard SOMEWHERE in your stash!
Does anyone remember the Rubicoil rage (pre-bind it all) of a few years back? I jumped on the bandwagon and purchased enough coils to make a plethora of books. I should do a rubicoil class. Yeah, that's the ticket! So I have the Rubicoil (henceforth called Rubi). I punched the chipboard with the Rubi and created my base for the covers. Then carefully, I punched the designer paper, making sure that it was evenly placed in the Rubi. Sometimes you think you have the paper lined up in the Rubi and it is not fully in and you don't get a nice edge to your punching.
I butterbacked the front and back covers with a mixture of mono adhesive on the edges and scotch quick drying paper glue in the center. I placed the 6x6 designer paper back to back and adhered them together with mono adhesive. Thread the coil through the holes and pinch the end of the coils with a pair of pliers. The inside pages are held together nicely with the coil on one side, so focus your mono placement on the corners and edges so that the pages line up nicely. The font cover and back cover needed a little something more, so I carefully attached the book corners. I actually used my crop-a-dile to set them. Just pinch away with the crop-a-dile - easy peasy lemon squeezy!
I finished the front cover with a title, punched with a nestability die cut. I printed the wording up on my computer and then punched it out. I used the sakura stardust in teal to dot the scalloped border. I had some prima flowers in my stash which I held together with a brad and adhered to the front cover with some SU! dimensionals. They give some lift, but not too much lift! I took a green prima and snipped it apart with my paper snips and used a dab of scotch adhesive to place it under the flower. It kind of looks like a leaf, right? I used some fun ribbon (Mayarts/starlitstudio) in orange/white polka dot and teal/brown polkadot. Tell Cindy you need this ribbon! LOL!
The pages were so easy to throw together. I typed out the kids names and punched them with my SU! punches (some in oval, some in the designer label punch). The color of the paper inside is bold - but for some reason, everyone looked so good in orange. It coordinated SO nicely with the kids clothing. Seriously!
I typed out some fun poems (the 100 year poem, the Roots and Wings statement) and placed them in the front and back of the book.
We are presenting this to the teacher on Thursday at Kindergarten graduation.
My friend Bevie gave me this great idea about personalized chairs for the teacher.
This seemed like a stellar ideas, so I went to the Summer Section at the Tarjay. They have that Whim by Cynthia Rowley collection. (it was 50% off last week - this week 75% off!)
I grabbed the folding captains chairs in the green and blue stripes. On the back of the chair, I used my Sharpie Markers and wrote:
TEACHER OF THE YEAR
2007-2008
Kindergarten
Miss Morse
(I did this for all the teachers) They loved them!
What special things do you do for your kid's teachers?
Post a link in the comment section. I am always looking for new ideas.
This paper is from my Costco slab. I swear I will use one of my three slabs in full one day. Progress - this used several sheets. What I love about that slab is that there are a few pieces that coordinate so nicely! This paper from the cover is just so fun - it screams happy. Isabella's teacher is just that type: fun, loving, happy.
I took the 12x12 sheets and cut them into 6x6 squares. The covers (front and back) required a little more sturdiness, so I used a piece of chipboard and cut it down to a 6x6 square. I found the 12x12 chipboard on the back of a pack of Stampin' Up! designer paper. Check your designer paper packs - I am sure you have some chipboard SOMEWHERE in your stash!
Does anyone remember the Rubicoil rage (pre-bind it all) of a few years back? I jumped on the bandwagon and purchased enough coils to make a plethora of books. I should do a rubicoil class. Yeah, that's the ticket! So I have the Rubicoil (henceforth called Rubi). I punched the chipboard with the Rubi and created my base for the covers. Then carefully, I punched the designer paper, making sure that it was evenly placed in the Rubi. Sometimes you think you have the paper lined up in the Rubi and it is not fully in and you don't get a nice edge to your punching.
I butterbacked the front and back covers with a mixture of mono adhesive on the edges and scotch quick drying paper glue in the center. I placed the 6x6 designer paper back to back and adhered them together with mono adhesive. Thread the coil through the holes and pinch the end of the coils with a pair of pliers. The inside pages are held together nicely with the coil on one side, so focus your mono placement on the corners and edges so that the pages line up nicely. The font cover and back cover needed a little something more, so I carefully attached the book corners. I actually used my crop-a-dile to set them. Just pinch away with the crop-a-dile - easy peasy lemon squeezy!
I finished the front cover with a title, punched with a nestability die cut. I printed the wording up on my computer and then punched it out. I used the sakura stardust in teal to dot the scalloped border. I had some prima flowers in my stash which I held together with a brad and adhered to the front cover with some SU! dimensionals. They give some lift, but not too much lift! I took a green prima and snipped it apart with my paper snips and used a dab of scotch adhesive to place it under the flower. It kind of looks like a leaf, right? I used some fun ribbon (Mayarts/starlitstudio) in orange/white polka dot and teal/brown polkadot. Tell Cindy you need this ribbon! LOL!
The pages were so easy to throw together. I typed out the kids names and punched them with my SU! punches (some in oval, some in the designer label punch). The color of the paper inside is bold - but for some reason, everyone looked so good in orange. It coordinated SO nicely with the kids clothing. Seriously!
I typed out some fun poems (the 100 year poem, the Roots and Wings statement) and placed them in the front and back of the book.
We are presenting this to the teacher on Thursday at Kindergarten graduation.
My friend Bevie gave me this great idea about personalized chairs for the teacher.
This seemed like a stellar ideas, so I went to the Summer Section at the Tarjay. They have that Whim by Cynthia Rowley collection. (it was 50% off last week - this week 75% off!)
I grabbed the folding captains chairs in the green and blue stripes. On the back of the chair, I used my Sharpie Markers and wrote:
TEACHER OF THE YEAR
2007-2008
Kindergarten
Miss Morse
(I did this for all the teachers) They loved them!
What special things do you do for your kid's teachers?
Post a link in the comment section. I am always looking for new ideas.
6 comments:
Thanks for explaining how you put your book together. I made one last year for my dd's kindergarten teacher and am putting together this year's book. My book is basically your book - I just used coasters for the covers.
What I did last year and this year was to ask the kids to tell me their favorite part about their grade or why they liked their teacher. I typed up this info and put it on the page facing their picture.
I do love the idea of the chairs. I may have to give that a try!
I love this idea, we don't see so much of this in the uk. I know I am a teacher with 4 kids of my own.Maybe its time to change lol.
Great blog.
Kes
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OMG! This is what I need to do for Meg's teacher! Show me your Rubi! Teach me the secrets of the Rubi! ;)
One of the things that we did for teachers this year was a little treat/gift each day along with a cutsie saying. They loved it and were so surprised to get something each day.
M: Bucket of tootsie rolls - "Thanks for your ROLL in my education!"
T: New (NICE) teacher scissors - "You're a CUT above the rest!"
W: A bag of Reisen's candy - "There are so many REISEN'S why I love you as my teacher!"
TH: Golf balls - "This year has been a BALL! Thanks FORE being a great teacher!" for the teacher who loves to golf, and for the other, a large bags of many kinds of M&M's - "Thanks for the MANY MANY things you've taught me!"
F: A pack of handmade cards (I used the teacherBella stamp) - "Take NOTE! I think you're great!"
Then at the end of the year, we bought them each a g/c to a favorite pizza place and made a card that said, "Anyway you SLICE it, we think you're TOPS! Thanks for a great year!"
This is an adorable book and such a lucky teacher! You got a "Shout Out" for Scrapbook Saturday over at Card of the Week.com.
You can check out the original post at http://www.cardoftheweek.com/2008/06/scrapbook-sat-1.html
Beth this is really a sweet idea.
PS. I've tagged you as one of my favorite blogs. See my blog for details
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