Teacher Appreciation Gifts

I have one of those pretty calendar frame holders for my calendar that I keep track of appointments and birthdays and such, and I love it except that I can't flip the pages up to peek at the next month which means I always seem to miss or almost miss whatever is happening the first week of each month - like Teacher Appreciation Week, ugh.  I already had an idea of what I wanted to make for my daughter's 4 teachers but now I only had a couple days so I was feeling the pressure.

I've never made these stationary sets before but after the first one they were pretty easy.  I found instructions on the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot HERE and the only note you should make is for Part B Step 1: the instructions say to score at 1" on three sides but you should actually score at  1 1/4" instead or your shelf will be too wide for your box.

I didn't have time to add extra embellishments other than a ribbon on the lids, but the papers are so pretty that I think they work ok alone (yay K&CO!).  The cards I made had to be pretty basic too since I had to assembly-line them 16 times for each size.  And just to keep things interesting the night before I had to have these ready a tree fell onto some power lines next door and I had no power from the afternoon till after 9pm!  OMG!  So old school methods had to replace my fancy Silhouette's designs that I had been working on and I pulled out my Epic6 and some embossing folders and got busy by candle light.  I also used my new distressing tool from CTMH - ohgosh this is my new favorite must-have! 

The pencil cards are a Silhouette design.

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... I forgot to take a pic of the last box closed,

 oops.