DIY Teacher’s Diary with Rose Gold Lettering

Hi friends! Elise here from Polka Dotted Blue Jay. With the calendar and school year coming to an end, I always make sure to have a fun DIY teacher’s gift ready to go and thought this year I would make a DIY teacher’s diary with an inspiring teacher quote and some beautiful rose gold adhesive vinyl.

I love using my Silhouette Cameo to cut out vinyl but you could easily recreate this craft with a pre-made rose gold sticker or even a paint pen and some beautiful handwriting.

Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Supplies:

Diary or Notebook

Rose Gold Adhesive Vinyl

Silhouette Cameo

Transfer Tape

Design or Sticker (I used Design #195211 from the Silhouette Design Store)

How to make your DIY Teacher’s Diary:

1. Measure your diary to determine the size of your quote.
   
2. Download your quote or create your own. I like this teacher quote I found in the Silhouette Design store and it really is true; the influence of a good teacher can never be erased.
3. Resize your design to fit the space on your diary. *I straightened the pencil on my design to be more horizontal.
4. Cut out a piece of adhesive vinyl to slightly larger than your design and place it color side up on your cutting mat.
   
5. Load your cutting mat into your cutting machine.
6. Send your design to cut and be sure to select the correct type of vinyl and adjust your blade accordingly.
7. One your design has been cut out, unload your cutting mat from the machine and carefully remove the vinyl from the cutting mat.
8. Pull up from one corner to start removing the excess vinyl from the design – this is called “weeding”. Be sure to remove the center of the letters and space between words.
   
   
9. Place a piece of transfer tape that is the same size as your design on top of the vinyl sticky-side down.
10. Rub the transfer tape to make sure your designs sticks to it and then peel up the transfer tape taking the design with it.
    
11. Place your design onto the cover of your diary and rub to transfer the design.
    
12. Peel back the transfer tape and leave your design on the diary cover.
    

I don’t know about you, but I LOVE teachers and what they do every day in the lives of little ones. I know I love showering our preschool teachers with appreciation and I fully intend to shower all of Jedidiah’s teachers with gifts as he goes through school.

If you make a DIY Teacher’s Diary with Rose Gold Adhesive Vinyl, Karen and I would love to see it. Be sure to tag us on social media so we can send you all the heart eyes!

Elise @pdbjay

Karen @ahousefullofsunshine