As the clock inched closer to midnight last night I was concentrating on hand cutting a couple dozen leaves. In that moment I realized that I am completely obsessed with giving teacher gifts. Over the years I have loved coming up with recipe books to go with various gifts for the kitchen...or holiday gifts...or even just a little something at the beginning of the school year. I just really, really love coming up with teacher gift ideas.
I didn't come up with this idea though...gift card bouquets are an idea I saw float around the internet at some point and tucked away on the "I want to do that" list. I went looking for it again last week and found a super cute version here. So we amassed small gift cards for both of Mac's teachers...
And then I used my trusty daisy die-cuts, scallop circle punch and dug into the green patterned paper stash...
I ended up covering coin envelopes to hold each gift card. Little green buckets from the Target dollar spot were stuffed with florist foam and topped with a bag of gravel from the craft store. Oh and I used skewers that were painted green by Sean about 10 minutes before midnight (I really went a little crazy with the details on this). The last step was just stamping a "Happy Summer" gift tag (love these alphabet stamps
So what I lost in sleep I gained in having gifts that I was extra happy to place on Mac's teacher's desks today as we were picking him up from school...
