It's time for our monthly feature at Your Next Stamp, and this month's theme is...

School is Cool!

  

There are so many cute school themed stamps and dies in the YNS Store... just wait till you see the variety of ideas the Design Team came up with!

    

My kiddos have been back in school for about 6 weeks already. I thought it would be fun to make something cute they can use with their homework. We have a special "homework area" in the house, so they can always find all the supplies they need to get their work done. I decided to decorate a pencil holder for their homework area, and add cute pencil toppers to some freshly sharpened pencils...

      

    

The pencil cup is just a can covered in cute paper from The Paper Studio. I used the Apple Die to cut a bunch of little apples for the pencil toppers, and stamped each one with a different face from Fun Faces and Fun Faces 2.

    

   

To hold the apples on the pencils, I cut a small strip of cardstock, about .5" x 1.5", and adhered it to the back of the apple with scor-tape, leaving a loop for the pencil to fit through. It fits tight enough not to wobble, but can be easily removed to use the eraser, or switch to another pencil.

     

        

The kids were very excited to find this waiting for them when they got home from school today! It's such a simple thing, but it made homework time a lot more fun!

  

Head on over to the YNS Blog to see the fabulous variety of projects from the team... and while you're there, be sure to leave a comment! One lucky fan will recieve a YNS stamp set of their choice, just for commenting!!!

Good luck!