I LOVE The Idea Room. LOVE LOVE LOVE her blog. I went on there today to look for her embossed candle tutorial, and came across this in the craft section! I've seen these before, but didn't know how to make one. I thought it was a sticker or something on the front. I had everything I needed already on hand.
Laser Jet printer
Transparency (leftover from these)
Clear Soap Bottle
That's it! Our laser jet printer has issues right now. It prints a long black line down the front of each page. Usually we use our ink jet printer, but for this project it worked great since the area being printed was only 3"x4". If you don't have a laser printer, you can go to Kinkos and they'll print out your page on a transparency for usually under $1.
I added our names onto our bottle and love how it turned out. You can create your own template using a document program, or use the one that Amy has on her blog. Full instructions for making one of these can be found on her blog as well.
I think I will make one of these for each of the boy's teachers this year to go with their Christmas gifts. The dollar store has little bottles of soap, so it's a practical, inexpensive and personal gift.
La Familia Garcia says
That is soo neat!!
blesid says
It's like subway art on a bottle! LOVE IT! Thanks so much for sharing this! Jules
Creative Flair says
Brilliant. I have to go get busy making these right now!!
Dee says
I love this idea! Thanks for the reminder.
Amy says
I love the Idea Room, too. This is so great! So glad you shared it. Thanks for visiting my blog so that I found yours. Love It, I can't wait to explore more.
Donene says
What a great idea! Love it!
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**Amy** says
Brandy--
You are too sweet! Thanks for the kind comments and the link! I love the shape of your bottle. I especially love that you added the names of your family. What a great idea. It made me think how fun it would be to list all of the kids names in the class for the teacher too and put the year on it as a momento for the teacher! I think I'll have myself a look around now!
Amy
Chantal says
Very clever and unique. I like it!
Melissa says
This is a really cute idea. Thanks for sharing it with us.
staci @ lizard n ladybug says
this would make a great gift..I posted a 'soap bottle' project today but this one is MUCH cuter 🙂
Letti says
That would make such a great gift for so many people. Thank you for sharing 🙂