It's almost time...

The seasonal aisles in the stores are brimming with supplies, the commercials are on tv - back to school is upon us! The bittersweet fact of August - I spend it obsessing about the end of summer and back-to-school shopping. In honor of my stress I've got a little back-to-school project I made last Spring. (I made a variation of this idea back then - it was posted on my blog and at SRM Stickers, too.).

I transformed an SRM tube into a big pencil. I filled it will yellow pencils to 'color' the tube and added a few strategic embellishments to drive the theme. I added a clean, graphic tag so it could be given as a little gift for returning students.

 Here's a close up of my tag. 

Love that embossed metallic paper - looks like the top of a pencil:

 Here's the tube opened up - 8 regular pencils fit perfectly inside!

materials used: plastic tube, stickers: SRM Stickers; cardstock: American Crafts; 

metal rimmed tag: Staples; twine: The Twinery

Hope you've got a great day planned. I get to see some of my favorite people today and I'm really looking forward to that!