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6 Aug 2009

Papertrey Ink Template.....

As some of you know, my daughter Holly volunteers at a Grade One class through the graciousness of the First Grade teacher.

As a developmentally handicapped young woman, Holly is easily bored and also easily frustrated, so when she said she wanted to make some things for the Grade One class she volunteers at, I cringed inwardly......pretty much knowing that whatever we started to make, and we needed 31 of said things, I would probably be doing the brunt of the work.



I downloaded, what I thought would be, the easiest of the Timeless Templates from Papertrey Ink, so that hopefully Holly would be keen to put them together.



She picked out the Orbit collection by Crate paper for the boys and K & Company's Berry Sweet paper for the girls and I went to work. I printed off the Ready, Set, Wrap template from Papertrey Ink onto kraft cardstock and cut out all of them.



Then I cut out the boys and girls designer paper and glued it onto the templates.

I decorated them up a bit by stamping them with Polka Dot Basics in various colours of ink, Dark Chocolate, Ocean Tides, Hibiscus Burst. I used the outline of the large polka dot with a smaller solid polka dot sort of stamped off to the side.

I added some buttons and twine for the boys and some bows for the girls.

And then Holly put them altogether - each and everyone! no complaining, no whining, no frustration! (from either one of us) YAY!!

We filled them with gummi bears and chocolate coins and sour patch kids - stuff their parents would surely appreciate .....snicker......and then we made some tags using the JustRite stamps. Holly really enjoyed stamping the tags and then that was it. Enough for her!! I finished them off by added the scalloped Spellbinders circles and tying them to the template.

Anyway, those templates were so easy to use and put together and I would highly recommend them, if you value my opinion.......which I am SURE you do!! LOL!




12 comments:

  1. Bookmarking this for future reference! Many thanks to you and Holly for the inspirational idea! I am the "committee of one" for little teacher appreciation gifts this year at my daughter's school, so this idea will be a good one to keep in mind! They're all adorable!

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  2. Wow Bonnie!! This is awesome!! I am so glad that you and Holly enjoyed doing them together. They turned out fantastic!!!

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  3. Wow, that a lot of work! They turned out great!!! Love that each one is personalized!

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  4. Wonderful project and it is so great to here that is was easy and fun for you and your daughter....what a wonderful Mom/Daughter bonding time!

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  5. They look great! What a sweet gift for your daughter to give to the class!

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  6. The gifts turned out fantastic! It's great to know that this template is good for when you need looootttsss of treats. I think it's wonderful that Holly volunteers her time with first graders.

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  7. What a fun project for the two of you to work on together. Bet the children appreciate the treat from Holly.

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  8. Bonnie, this is a great project! I'm so glad you were able to do it together! They turned out SO cute! :)

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  9. What a great project! Yay Holly and Yay Bonnie!! Sure the children loved the treats.

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  10. what a great story and they are adorable.

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  11. Holly picked out great papers, great project!!

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  12. OMgosh they are so cute! I am so glad she enjoyed assembling these! Great papers too! The kids are going to love these!

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