Cardboard Letters with Scrapbook Paper

I was looking for an easy and cheap gift to make for my niece and nephews for Christmas. Since there are four of them it can get a little expensive. In addition to an angry bird toy that I got each one of them, I wanted to make something that maybe they wouldn't want but hopefully like. I came across several different projects that used cardboard as the base. Knowing I could get cardboard boxes from work,  I was keen on finding a project that used cardboard. I found several pins but finally found one that used regular cardboard from boxes that you cut letters out of it and wrap yarn around it.

 However when I started wrapping it with yarn I had difficultly getting around the corners. I took it to my mom and was hoping she would be able to help me. Instead she came up with a better idea.

 

I had seen some pins that used nicer cardboard letters that you bought at a craft store and glued paper to, but I wanted to use my free cardboard. So we applied glue stick to the cardboard and laid the paper faced down on the table. Then just matched up the edge of the letter with the edge of the paper and pressed down. Then using an utility knife, just traced around the letter and cut the excess paper off. After we got all the letters done we embellished them with supplies from scrap booking and others items we had around.


For each kid, we made their initials. We added a little something to each letter.

 

 For my niece, of course we had to use pretty pink flowers and a butterfly. Luckly my mom had some lefft over supplies from another project.

I was also glad my mother has a Cricket so we were able to cut different things out for my nephews! Theirs aren't as pretty but I really hope they like them just as well!