Congrats Grad!

How many graduation parties did you get invited to this season?  We got invited to a bunch!  Once you add up the costs of cards, your gift, giftwrap, etc...the gift gets really expensive for a graduation gift, especially from college or grad school!  While surfing Pinterest one day, I saw this awesome idea:

http://shareandremember.blogspot.com

As soon as I saw this idea, I fell in love with it!  I figured since we had a ton of parties to go to, I could crank a gift similar to this out fairly quick.

I went to my local Dollar Tree and found a few frames.  I washed the glass in the frames (be careful, they are cheap frames with very thin glass) and got to work.  I made some letters out of vinyl and adhered them to the glass.  I wish I would have mirrored the letters, but this worked, and now I know for next time.  I selected paper that matched each grad's school and created a printable with Class of 2012 on it.

For this particular school the colors were gray and blue

Minus the gift, this project cost me about $2.00 in supplies all together.

I used pop dots and stacked the money, I thought it looked better that way and it made more of a surprise for the grad.  My husband thought I should fan it all out, I won.  Funny, when I gave this particular gift to the recipient she asked "So, how many emergencies are in here?"  This gift was the talk of the tables.  Made me smile and it was far less boring than a card with cash.  Thanks so much Share & Remember, your idea inspired me!

Yup, that's Pinteresting!