Neighborhood Craft Night – Teacher Gifts

When I hosted my first neighborhood craft night in October I knew it would be something fun to do on a Friday night, but I couldn’t have imagined how much I would look forward to this “girl time” or what a bond I would feel with these women – many of whom were essentially strangers when we first started. My December travel schedule was a little hectic and with the holidays coming I wasn’t sure I’d be able to fit one in (or if anyone would have time to come) – so when all of my “regulars” not only came but brought three new people, I knew we had something special. This month’s project – teacher gifts! All photos (except the crappy one at the bottom) courtesy of Busy Bee Photography.

We created altered notebooks and post-it note holders using the GORGEOUS Teresa Collins Vintage Finds collection and – of course – my Xyron machines. You can find a quick tutorial on how to create your own notebook (with the lovely Teresa herself) here:

and I created the post-it note holders using two pieces of 3×3 chipboard covered in patterned paper (and we made our own binding using a smaller piece of paper), but of course AFTER craft night I found an ENTIRE Pinterest page with tutorials that were MUCH easier. Live and learn! 🙂

Bizzy – the official mascot of…well…everything. 🙂  She is like the “Where’s Waldo” of craft night!

I got so wrapped up in the fun of it all that I forgot to ask Rachel to take a picture of the post-it note holder, so here it is – in all its low light, crummy camera blurriness. I made it nice and big so you can revel in the awesomeness of the photo. Ha!

Happy Crafting everybody! Can’t wait to see what the new year will bring!

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Neighborhood Craft Night – Teacher Gifts

Learn how to turn a plain notebook into an adoable teacher's gift!

Author: Beth Kingston

Materials

• Notebook
• Xyron Mega Runner
• Xyron 1.5'' Sticker Maker
• Sheets of Paper
• Embellishments

Instructions

• Cut your sheet of paper to fit the front and back of your notebook.
• Add some adhesive to the front of your notebook (using your Xyron Mega Runner) and adhere your paper (from step 1).

  Repeat this with the back of the notebook.
• Run your embellishments through the Xyron 1.5'' Sticker Maker.
• Peel off the Xyron backing from your embellishments, and add them to your notebook cover.