Some Back-to-School Crafts

Between running after two dogs, camping, attending various meetings, hosting a workshop, trying to keep up with my laundry, holding a crafty yard sale and trying to keep my kids entertained during the summer months, I had a few minutes to work on a few crafts.

Here are some cute back-to-school items…

This is a little french fry box (use a pattern or trace a clean box) that I embellished – it would be cute to hold a little box of crayons or other school supplies.

 

I also made a little pencil case from some Old Olive cardstock…

And here’s a cute bookmark made from one of those giant paperclips you can find at office supply stores…

Another cute idea is to take large laminate chips (countertop samples you can find free at home improvement stores) and turn them into little mini-clipboards.

Cover the back of the chip with paper (Stampin’ Up! Outlaw, in this sample) and trim it to size.  Then add a little binder clip at the top, tie on some ribbon and a tag and you have a sweet little gift, perfect for a party favor, to hold a favorite photo, receipts, sticky notes, business cards…whatever you’d like.

As a side note, I also use the smaller laminate chips as gift tags – here’s one on a Christmas box…

I have some more little projects to share…I’ll put them in another post…