Are We Nuts?

As we continue to celebrate our fearless Classified Staffers, each grade level breaks up the week and gives them mini treats every day! The 4th/5th grade teachers are in charge of Wednesday, so we have been prepping our present! 

I used a rubber band to hold the mini stamps together in order to make my stamping much quicker. Step one was to place the word "NUTS" on the tags in a bright orange color.

I then hand penned the remaining words in a bright blue ink, "We are NUTS about you!" The perfect saying to go with our gift! 

Using baker's twine, the tags were attached to the trail mix bags.

A huge shout out and thank you to my teaching partner, Rory, for tying so many little ribbons for the sake of my crazy craftiness! He was very patient, only about 36 bows... :) Thank you RORY! For tying bows and enduring me! 

Final product, boxes of nuts for the people that put up with us nutty teachers!

Thank you very much!

I am a little slow on getting these up, but I created pennant style thank you cards for my students who gave me gifts at the end of the year.  I choose cards in bright colors (from a precut mat stack book) and then selected both pattered and solid paper for the pennant flags that complimented the card colors.  I then free handed small triangles from the paper.  I used the first one as a guide for the rest so they were somewhat similar.  The first card I created was the green one, featuring the brown trim, but I was not thrilled with the result so I opted to string the flags on an invisible line! Once each card was glued together, I labeled the flags with brown Sharpie, mixing up the fonts for each card.  I let the cards dry under a press so as to keep the pennants from curling on the edges and voila! A cute and simple card! These would make adorable birthday cards, baby announcements or shower gifts, party invites, you name it!

Notice the different fonts.

Finished pieces.

All together, notice the brown trim on the green card. Decided it was too bulky and didn't sit right. Perhaps some thick thread would be more appropriate in the future. Or a hand drawn line. Next time...