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Hello! Here's a last minute idea for Teacher Appreciation Week. Something along these lines would be fun to suprise him or her with:

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Supplies: Vintage flashcards, buttons, chipboard letters to spell school, crepe paper, paint, glitter, graph paper, scraps from the October Afternoon Report Card line, vintage images from Pretty Little Studio, ribbon, a random flower, large scallop punch, chipboard leaves from American Crafts, tulle for hanging the banner.

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I painted the letters red and glittered them.

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To make the crepe paper ruffles, I set my sewing machine to the longest stitch possible and ran the paper through about a half inch in.I was a little concerned because the crepe paper itself was vintage (or at least from the '80's) but it was fine. You could also hand stitch this, using a long stitch.

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I left long threads on either end of the crepe paper and gently tugged on one of them and smooshed the gathered part down as I went.  It makes a cute ruffle. It's easy to make a "circle" out of it too which I did to back one of the vintage images from Pretty Little Studio.

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I punched holes in the flashcards using the smallest circle punch I have. Depending on what you're doing to hang the garland up with, a hole punch would work well too.

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I used my glue gun to attach the crepe paper to the back of the flashcards.

Now for the fun part!  I used the scraps from the October Afternoon Report Card line to punch out large scallops, glued on the letters and tinkered with embellishments until I liked how it looked.
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  1. That is a cute idea Malia. We were recently chatting about using repe paper to make May baskets and taking the crepe paper between thumb and finger and “stretching” it to make flower petals to go around a little paper cup and make the basket. Such fun ideas.