Back to School! Create Easy Projects for Students with Stampin' Up!

6 September 2011

Back to School! Create Easy Projects for Students with Stampin' Up!

Posted by Taylor

As a mom of an university student in her final year, there really isn't much to buy once we're past the books, and tuition. We have accumulated plenty of school supplies so I have chosen to help her with clothes mostly.

BUT - being the crafter, I couldn't help but present her with a little offering, now could I?

I did decide on note pads, some cool looking pencils, sharpener, binder and gum - yes, the gum is a must! Oh and so is the hand sanitizer - egads!!!

Now established facts - she loves owls. Stampin' Up! has an OWL PUNCH.

Not too far of a stretch here, lol!

So I began with the colour of the blue binder , and the black pencils and was soon scrapping and punching, sponging away at making owls whilst watching another episode of Poirot on my laptop.

The binder has a spine insert - so I used the paper insert as a template and our new SCORING TOOL and scored a 3x11 strip of black cardstock. With the use of 'markers' the SIMPLY SCORED scoring tool makes a breeze out of creating folds in your paper - you no longer have to squint and stare to make sure you have the correct alignment AND you can repeat the same marking on another piece of paper - not bad when you have a gazillion folds to make for wedding invitations for instance!

Voila! I scored my newly-made spine insert! On to stamping!!!

With our BFF STAMP SET and WHITE CRAFT INK [ to stand out against the black cardstock] -- I stamped in a haphazard way and glued on two of my owls and before you know it, I had my newly-decorated spine! It's cute and edgy - just right for someone her age.

Now I'm on a roll - so what else could she use? I decide on a A CORNER BOOKMARK! These are like making a giant photo corner - again, using the SIMPLY SCORED board, I scored a couple of folds and in a matter of minutes, I had created my bookmark! I shall do a separate post on creating a CORNER BOOKMARK - so stay tuned!

Also with our ROUND TAB PUNCH, there is no need to buy PAGE TABS - as this is what this punch is for. I punched out about a dozen as we can always make more! We can draft up some labels for her tabs later on when she has a need for them. And finally, I gave her some WHITE LIBRARY CLIPS.

My third OWL has crazy eyelashes - ha ha. She looks kinda sleepy which is not too far off from my daughter's look in the morning :) I placed her gingerly on a label I made to cover the gum - just so we can use the owl in another spot later.

And with a bit of ribbon tyed around the pencils - I think it all makes a good presentation....because in the end, we just want to mark Back-to-School as "special" and send them off with enthusiastic hopes of a great year ahead!

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