I am so excited to show you my 1st scrapbooking project! These are the name plates/desk helpers I will use to begin school this year.  I am not decided yet about keeping them for the whole year 🙂

I made the printed elements using my purchased fonts from Sigaprint Software.  This is the school font, so any free school font site would have something comparable I would imagine.  My plan is to provide the basic letter set for reference, and a numberline that can be written on with a dry erase marker when we need it for math.  This project is layered with blue card stock which I cut in strips and mounted on the back of the white card with the print.  I used the  fish and fish bowl cutouts from the “Animal Kingdom” Cricut cartridge.  Since I am new to cricut and scrapbooking, I do not have the best gel pens.  I think a more glittery gel would be awesome on the edges of everything.  Of course, I am a dot crazed kinder teacher too, so I wanted to include dots in the design.  This was accomplished by covering a piece of white card stock with dotted tissue paper, then mounting it over the blue strips, hiding the edges–and the fact that I saved paper by using the strips, lol.  Here are pics of the front and back of my finished (I think) product.ve