Teacher appreciation gifts

Listen up!  {Confessional}........I am a procrastinator.....ugh I said it!  I put it out there for all of you to see.  It is part of who I am and I am constantly trying to better myself in this area but it is one of my faults.  I hope you are going to choose to love me anyway......On the bright side I work BEST under pressure so some of my best ideas come from the 12 hour period before my deadline.

I do have a reason for this confessional.  I am sharing the last minute gifts that I made for the kids teacher appreciation gifts late Thursday night.  I made them from stuff that I had laying around and I think I started at about 11:00pm....see I told you PRO-CRAS-TIN-ATOR!  Anyway I thought that they turned out pretty cute and they were super simple so I thought I would share so if any of you wanted to give it a try yourself you could file it away in your memory bank.

I started with blank cards that you can buy at any craft store.  Or you could just cut from card stock if you really wanted to.

Then I cut out brackets with my Silhouette machine {That I got for Mothers day and am sooo thankful for!} and glued them on with an amazing glue pen from Martha Stewart.  No seriously its amazing!  It is a felt pen and a liquid glue almost like a paint pen you should get one from Michaels.

Then cut out the letters and glued them on.  Super easy and fun.  If you don't have a cutting machine you could always use chipboard letters or cute stickers.

I am really liking the lowercase letters right now.

Switched it up with these and put a scroll design....as I am sure you can see :)

Here are some examples of others that I have made in the past.  It really is such a fun gift to give homemade, personalized stationary.  Give it a try and if you do send me pics! 

Silhouette Bracelet

As much as I love parties I love silhouettes JUST as much!  For Mothers Day I made my Mother-in-law a pearl bracelet.  It is a pearl bracelet that has 2 silver pendants with the initials and birth date of the kids.  There is also another pendant that is double sided with a silhouette on either side.  I am seriously in love with it...I decided to make it on Saturday.......you know....the day before Mothers day!  So needless to say I made a few mistakes but I fixed them and I am pretty happy with it.  Anyway check out the pictures.  I am working on making more to sell on Etsy so if your interested my shop should be up and running Mid June.  I will keep you posted.