Desk Note pad / Card holder

This cute little notepad/card holder is one of the projects from the upcoming class this week. I made some of these when school started for my daughters teachers. You can see those ones here.   

These can hold cut up printer paper to use on your desk as scratch paper, or they hold a nice set of cards and make a great gift. 

I will be posting a tutorial on my blog when I get it finished. Yes, I said that last time, but I remembered to take pictures in progress of this one so it should be up within a week.


The cute little "notes" stamp is from one of the previous My Paper Pumpkin kits. Every month MPP has exclusive stamps in it that are not available anywhere else. There is a really great deal on the MPP subscription right now. Get a set of SU In Color Markers FREE when you sign up as a new My Paper Pumpkin Subscriber. The kits are also getting bigger starting in February so the value is even better!

First Day of Kindergarten

Today was the first day of kindergarten for my youngest :(   I was not ready for her to go but she was very excited. So last night we spend the evening making a small gift for not only her teacher but the other kindergarten teacher as well.

I made these little notepad holders using stampin' up! cardstock, design paper, and a few small stamps. 

I used the recently retired storybook design paper for the top and used stamps from last years Ronald McDonald stamp set for the flowers, frogs and birds stamped on the cut up printer paper. 

Here are the gifts all packaged and ready to go. As you can see on the blue one I forgot to do the little half circle cut out. I used the new bow die to pretty up the package and the chalk talk framelits for the tag.


Sorry they are not very clear pictures, sent them from my phone as a small file and didn't think about the sizing issue until now .


I got the idea from googling teacher gifts and patterns from StampwithBlythe as well as splitcoaststampers. However the instructions from SCS were for a small square box and Blythes were missing the cut out. I will be preparing a tutorial for the boxes this week and post it as soon as it's finished.