Make an easy little sister/big sister gift

with scrapbooking paper, a lion sticker, and a snack or nut container. Perfect handmade gift for Alpha Delta Pi or any sorority.

You will need:

1.  A clean snack container with lid

2.  2 sheets of scrapbook paper in your sorority color(s)

3.  glue stick

4.  A mascot sticker or other

(can substitute with a mascot design you make yourself on acid free paper)

5. scissors.

All you have to do is:

1. Cut the scrapbook paper to fit the container.  It will take two pieces since the scrapbook paper is not wide enough to go around the whole container.

2. Glue the two pieces onto the container, overlapping to fit.

3. Press the sticker  in the center (or cut out your mascot design & glue in the center)

Basically, that is it!  If you have paint pens, you can mark your Greek Letters on the lid.

This ideas makes a great little or big sister gift, if you enjoy giving a lot of surprises.

Making your own sorority gifts makes them extra special.

Happy crafting!

You might like to see Alpha Delta Pi Sorority Gifts & Merchandise

or      Stuffed Lions

By the way...   Leave a comment if you have any questions or if you have suggestions for sorority gift ideas you'd like to see on this blog.

Sorority Gifts

These STUFFED GREEK LETTER PILLOWS are over a foot tall (approximately 12 to 14 inches).  They have sturdy white cotton fabric on the back and are stuffed with poly fiberfil.  The Phi Mu set has cute white satin bows with foam sparkle pink butterflies placed on each Greek letter.

The eBay seller is offering a FREE bonus!!......... a sorority pin pillow in the same fabric adorned with the same type bow and butterfly perfect to keep your sorority pin safe. This looks like a beautiful set.

There are plastic hangers sewn on the back of the letters so you can hang these letters on the wall. Of course, they would be so cute just laying on your bed as pillows or on a shelf.

For your Do-it-Yourselfers, consider making some letter pillows yourself!

You need some paper a little larger than the size pillows that you want to make.

On the paper sketch your Greek Letters with a pencil making them a little bigger than you want the pillows to be (because when you sew the pillow together it will look smaller than it does on the pattern).  After drawing the pattern, be sure to add a seam allowance of at least 1/2 inch.

Pin pattern to your fabric.  Cut out two layers for front & back. With right sides together, sew layers together leaving an opening for turning.  Turn right side out.  Then stuff your Greek letter with soft fiberfil.   Sew close the opening that was used for turning.

The easiest letters to make would be those without holes like Gamma or Chi since you can do most of the sewing on a sewing machine.  If you make letters with holes, like Phi or Theta, you will have to cut out the holes after you sew the outside letter edges together.  The edges of the holes will need to be finished with hand sewing.

Comments are welcome!  If anyone tries to make your Greek Letters into pillows, please leave a comment with further suggestions on how you did it.  You'll help someone else with your experience and ideas.

Paint Your Own Sorority Notebooks!

Make Them Extra Special!

Save money by painting your own sorority notebooks, sorority report folders, and even sorority scrapbooks and photo albums. All you need to do is:

1. Find a simple picture of your sorority's mascot.

2. Trace your mascot using a pencil and tracing paper

(or any paper that you can see through)

3. Use graphite paper (available at craft stores in Decorative Painting aisle) to transfer the mascot drawing to a notebook. Just place graphite paper (shiny side down) on top of notebook. Then place traced sorority mascot drawing on top of graphite paper.

4. Use a ball point pen or a stylus to trace over your drawing, with enough pressure to make lines on the notebook from the graphite paper. Be sure to hold the layered papers firmly in one place as you trace so that you won't mess up your notebook drawing. After tracing, while papers are still held firmly on notebook, peel up one corner of the papers to peek at the transferred design underneath. Check to make sure you have traced all the lines that you need. If you missed any, now is the time to draw them while the paper & graphite are still in position.

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