Homemade Gift Ideas {Post-It Note Pads}

Hey Party People!
Hope your weekend was great!
I was busy working on a little shindig going on this week. I posted this sneak peek on the Parties for Pennies facebook page.

It’s been fun working on this little project…but…I do have to apologize because I said that over the weekend I’d post one more homemade gift idea. I failed you. I just got so swamped and needed to set aside time for my husband so I wasn’t able to post the homemade gift idea until tonight. (Oh yeah…gonna bust out the husband quality time excuse)

This homemade gift idea is what I did for my co-workers last year. I have over 40 co-workers which is small enough to have guilt over giving something to one person & not to another. Every year, I attempt to come up with creative, inexpensive and useable gift ideas. When you’re talking 40 people, I just can’t afford to spend $5 on each person. But I love giving so I aim for $1/each.

Last year, I loved my gift.

Personalized Post-It Note Pad

You can buy a pack of regular post-it note pads for less than $1 each. I covered them in cardstock I already owned (it was from one of those big book-like packs), bought a roll of velcro and a $2 pack of letter stickers.

I cut out a “template” using regular cardstock, then cut out the patterned cardstock. Using a glue stick, I attached it to the back of the post-it note then added a small little piece of velcro.

To personlize it, I added the first initial of each person’s name on their post-it pad.

The fun part about this is that you can design it any way you want. When I went to New York to tape a segment on the Better Show, I took several of these as little thank you gifts.

These were a couple of the ones I made to take to New York. Picture quality = Bleck. I was making these at 12am the morning that we flew out.

Here’s another version. I was going with the whole “use whatcha got” mantra on these.

These are really super easy, inexpensive, useable (who HASN’T ever used post-it notes?) and the sky’s the limit on your creativity.

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