More Teacher Gifts

I designed this note pad for the teachers at my sons' school.  Yesterday I showed you the project for my daughter's teacher, so I thought I would show you what I made for my 5th grade son David and my Kindergarten son Zachary's teachers.  The boys have  several teachers, so I had lots to do, MDS is perfect when you want to make multiples.  I designed the note pads, then just changed the text box with the teacher's names.  David is in a program called REACH for math and language arts, and also has his 5th grade teacher, so he needed 2 gifts.  Zachary gets extra help in his reading and math and has a kindergarten teacher, so he needed 3.  It was super easy to just change the text box of the names, and then send them off to the printer.  I wanted note pads, and Stampin' Up! doesn't print note pads, so I decided to go with a company called Vista Print.  My husband had pens made through them and the pens came in just 5 days, so I decided to give them a try.  THREE DAYS!!  That's it!!  I got my custom note pads in three days!!  I was so surprised.   They are super cute and I'm bummed I did not make one for myself!  Here is what I sent to the printer.

And here it is in real life!  I made matching cards with my real stamps.  I then bagged them up with some Hershey kisses and tied some left over Sale-A-Bration ribbon to the bags and I was done!!  I got two pads for each teacher, so ten pads for $53.82 including the shipping.  I did have a nice coupon but I see Vista Print coupons all the time so I am sure they are easy to come by.  I will definitely use them again.   Maybe I need to design some pens in MDS?  FUN!  

Here is the pad with the matching card.  The card was inspired by Mary Brown, who always inspires.  And since I made the pads match the cards I guess she inspired those too.

Here they are all bagged up!

Now, go make some MDS gifts!!  Mother's Day is coming you know!!