Mother's Day Activity

My friend asked me to help her come up with an idea for the girls in our ward at church to do for Mother's Day Activity. I made two of each of these books you see pictured.

Here's what I came up with. I made these books using my Cricut Expression. I used the Cricut Design Studio to weld together the letters from 'Opposites Attract' and the rectangles from 'George and Basic Shapes'. Then I cut them out in chipboard, spray painted them, added the letters cut out in cute paper, and finally bound it with my Bind-It-All.

I gave the girls a bunch of embellishments, ribbon, flowers, brads, etc. And they decorated the books and put pictures of themselves in them, and wrote nice notes for their moms. I didn't get to see the books when they were done but I heard that they were really cute and the girls had a great time decorating them.

And finally...

The last of the books. I had no idea it was going to take me anywhere near as long as it did. I hope the teachers all enjoy these books, filled with notes from their students.

And some more...

Here are more of the books I made. I also made some cute tags for each of the Faculty, and some signs, but I forgot to take pictures of them. Overwhelmed much? Yes, yes I am. But I am glad to help out our teachers, they work so hard and do such an amazing job.

I am in love with my Bind It All. Love. Love. Love.

More of da books.

Here are 5 more of the books for Teacher Appreciation Week.

Phew, that was a lot of cutting. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my Cricut Expression?!

What a day!

Ok, so here are 5 of the books from today. I will post more later if I have the time. I spent the majority of my day at my kids' school, and the highlight for me was watching our great teachers get silly and beat the candy out of a pinata. That was so fun!

As far as I can tell the teachers all liked the books I made for them. I hope they do anyway.

Thanks for looking!