Well, I’ve been having a good Christmas break. I am not quite ready to go back to school, but alas, I do not dictate the calendar. So, I will be back at work tomorrow. I get to go back to work with some new stuff that I made for my classroom. I have been really into modge podge and scrapbook paper lately.
I feel like I’ve been really crafty lately. I’m kinda proud of what I’ve been doing lately. Thought I’d share, maybe give someone an idea out there. I stole the clipboard idea from a craft show I went to, and applied it the hall passes, which I stole the basic ideal from other teachers. I just made them mine.
I’ve made 2 clipboards that I painted the edges a color that matched the scrapbook papers that I chose. Then I (after trimming) modge podged the papers to the front and the back of the clip board. I laid the paper down over a thin layer of the modge podge, smooth and let it dry. Then I modge podged over the paper to seal it. (It bubbles a bit, but if you let it dry overnight, it will lay down. So, don’t do anything drastic). After letting it dry, I put vinyl letter on it to make it very much my own. If I want the letters to be more permanent, I would have modge podged the letters down.
Tomorrow, I am taking new hall passes to school with me. I took wall plates (the covers that go over empty socket holes in the the wall), and I painted the edges and modge podged scrapbook paper on them. I cut a hole in the paper where one of the screws would go. Then I laid vinyl letters on them and sealed them. To finish, I tied a loop with ribbon through the hole. I burned the knot to make it harder to break.
Happy crafting! 
