Teacher Gifts

So I guess it might be a little late to post this idea since school got out yesterday.  I used these as teacher gifts, but I think you could use them as a gift for anyone.
My friend Kelly showed me one on a smaller scale that she made to put show tickets in as a gift, cute!  I needed an idea for Teacher Appreciation Week last year.  I sent home paper with the kids in their homework folder.  It said "My favorite thing about Kindergarten is...." Then they wrote it down and drew a picture.  I put them all in this book.
For the cover of this book I used card stock.  I used Modge Podge to attach it, then I covered the entire the entire book with Modge Podge. Then I attached the bow with spray glue.

 This is what the book looked like in the beginning. I spent about 50 cents on it at DI.

This year the PTA sent home notes with the kids, so I made a book for my daughters teacher to keep them all in.

On the cover of this one I used fabric.  First I used spray glue and stuck the fabric to the cover of the book.  I wrapped it around about an inch on the inside.  Then I covered the inside with card stock.  I covered the fabric on the outside with Modge Podge.  Then I used a glue gun to attach the ribbon where the three fabrics met up.

I took some spray glue and sprayed in between about 8 pages and stuck them all together.  Then I took a piece of card stock and spray glued one to each side of the section of pages I glued together.  I did this throughout the book.

Now the teacher will be able to attach the notes from the kids inside the book.  I thought these would be great gifts for other things too.  Father's day is coming up, you could make a book for dad or grandpa with notes and pictures from the kids.

Is That A Slurpee?

No, it's a cupcake!  These are the treats I made for my daughters soccer team.  Spring Soccer is to cold here to have a real Slurpee.

I went to my local 7 Eleven (I like to call it the "Sev") and asked if I could buy Slurpee cups.  I think I paid about a dollar for a dozen or so cups.  I told them what I was doing, and they were really great about selling me the cups.  

I wanted a cupcake flavor that would go along with the theme.  I used a Cherry 7up cupcake recipe.  For the frosting I used this 7up buttercream.  In the frosting I left out the cherry juice and used plain 7up because I wanted the frosting to be white so I could color it blue, purple, and red.

The cupcakes are not regular size.  I found jumbo cupcake papers at Hobby Lobby.  Regular ones would have fallen down in the cup.  I also wadded up a paper towel and put it in the bottom of the cup for some extra support.

I colored the frosting, frosted the cupcakes, sprinkled the colored sugar on top, and dropped them in the cups.  I cut Red Vines in half and used them as the straws.  Badda bing, badda boom.  Super easy, and cute.  And from what I hear, they taste really good.  They were gone so fast I didn't get a taste. :)  I believe I doubled the recipe and got around 15 jumbo cupcakes.