Pin It Now! One full week of school is behind us already & I think we've all settled into our new routine by now. Our 4 year old keeps thinking he's going to be late since he doesn't leave for school until 11:15 but hopefully one of these days he'll stop asking "What about my school Mom!? I don't want to miss it!"

Today I'd like to show you the little gift I made for the Pre-K teacher for the first day of school. It was soooo easy peasy that I wish I had more to make! However our big-shot sophomore & 6th grader did NOT want to give out first-day-of-school gifts so I had to be ok with making just one ;)

Isn't this adorable!? It's made using a 10" x 3 1/2" piece of card stock scored at 2", 2 1/2", 6", & 6 1/2".  I also used some Poppy Parade DSP to decorate the front 2 panels. The stamp set is the only scholastic set I have but it's retired :( I stamped the row of apples twice & colored them in using my Poppy Parade Stampin' Write marker. This holds a pad of post-it notes perfectly on the inside. I used Sticky Strip on the back of the note pad to make sure it stayed in place. You could add some velcro to keep the flap closed but I didn't have any on hand. Our youngest felt so proud carrying this to school & giving it to his teacher; he was definitely a big kid! ;)

I hope you enjoyed my little project today :) I may just make one for myself to keep on my workspace & decorate it without school stuff ;)

Happy Monday!