sweet gift idea

I made this for my father's birthday back in February. It's all his grand children's hand-prints in the shape of "I love you" in sign language. Right after I gave it to him we found out there will be another grandchild born this year. We are so excited!

Teacher gifts

Why does this ALWAYS sneak up on me? I am never prepared for teacher gifts for holidays OR the last week of school. Yes the easy route for me would be to give them flowers (since my hubby is in the flower business) but somehow I even forget to have him bring me home some flowers. Luckily this week I was prepared with some gifts on hand. I like to keep a cupboard stocked with random gifts I can grab in a hurry. Whenever I see things on sale I get them and put them away. Today I grabbed some hand made soaps (not by me...someday:) and these cute little window boxes I got from the container store. Yes I finally live near one which I am so psyched about. Anyway not really homemade but at least I was prepared! If you have good ideas to stock up on let me know!

card gift box

I am going to show you how to make this cute little gift box that holds 3x3" cards. I made this Valentines one for my daughter's kindergarten teacher. You can see below I was very busy. I made 5 more as gifts.

They are fun because the person you give them to has three cards they can pass out. I did a few different 3x3 cards. These above and the others at the bottom of the blog.

Cut your box at 5 1/4" by 9 1/2 "

Score on the 9 1/2 inch side at 1", 4 1/4", 5 1/4" and 8 1/2" then on the width score at 1" on both sides. Fold all your score lines.

Place your paper horizontal like above. With scissors cut the one inch vertical lines in your 1 inch crease one both sides. You can see the ends really well in the picture above.

Using double sided sticky tape place your tape in these places seen above. PUT THE TAPE ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE BOX. You can tell that my box curves from the folds. Fold the box into its final shape and glue.

 

Here is the final product.

Decorate your box anyway you like. Then make your 3x3 cards by cutting a piece of card stock 3"x6" and fold. Design and your finished.