Teacher Gift Card Tin - Warm-Up

My older two kids are finishing up school this week, and I'm finishing up all of my end-of-year gifties. I volunteered to take up a collection from my daughter's kindergarten class, so that the teachers could get nice gift cards instead of fifteen or twenty more candles each. I always appreciate it when a fellow parent organizes a group collection, so this year I figured it was my turn.

Secretly though, I had ulterior motives .... this:



I made each teacher an accordian-fold booklet with sleeves to hold three different gift cards: a favorite restaurant, a book store, and a Visa gift card for whatever their hearts desire. I packaged the booklet in a hinged, windowed tin.



On the opening page I stamped a quote from Make the Grade by Taylored Expressions.





The second page has the dinner card. Sentiment from Clearly Sentimental About Food by My Favorite Things.





The next page has a Barnes & Noble gift card. The sentiment stamp is from I {Heart} Books by My Favorite Things.





Next is the Visa card. Sentiment is from Say Charge by My Favorite Things.

The last page (no close-up) has a message to the teacher and the list of children who contributed to the group gift.

I like how this turned out, however, straight-up duplicating a project totally gives me hives, so for the second booklet, I changed things up quite a bit, and I have to say the second one turned out to be one of my favorite projects ever. Can't wait to show it to you tomorrow, along with the gift tin and the gift bag tags. Is it Friday yet?? I should mention that my daughter liked this one the best. (We're just not seeing eye to eye these days {grin}.)

Speaking of my daughter, if you visited my MFT July VIP Blog Hop post from Tuesday, you need to see this book she made yesterday. I'm showing you all of the pages as proof that the "bare" family does not garden!





Thanks for stopping by!



Stamps: Make the Grade (Taylored Expressions); Clearly Sentimental About Food, I {Heart} Books, and Say Charge (My Favorite Things)
Paper: Prismatics Island Mist Dark card stock, Papertrey Rustic White cad stock, K&Co dp
Ink: Stampin' Up Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Kaiser pearls, Spellbinders Labels Four Nestabilities and Tags Trio, sponge daubers, SU ribbon and punch, May Arts burlap string