A crafty friend of mine made my day when she told me she had a Stampin' Up Round Tab punch that she would sell me! Sounds crazy, right? Well...I am quite an organizational nerd and saw a notebook on pinterest (enough said about that) with these cool colored index tabs used in a notebook. It was like love at first sight and upon digging a little into the "pin" as one must do, I found that these awesome tabs were created with a punch (much like a hole puncher). So then my mission became finding one. I checked the Stampin' Up webpage and eBay, but before ordering from either place I put a plea out on facebook. I knew I had many crafty friends and one responded willing to part with her punch...so now that bad boy is MINE and I am so very excited about it. I know it is weird or crazy or even uncool to be this excited over an index tab, but I just can't help it - it is one more way for me to help my students get organized. Here is my teacher interactive notebook for social studies. And to the right of my notebook is pure awesomeness in a small little punch. You can see the shape it makes and then it is folded in half, with a page glued/sandwiched between it, and then labeled. Like magic, we have the coolest index tabs for our notebooks with little cost. I have 27 students in each of my classes and was able to punch enough tabs from ONE sheet of cardstock for the entire class! I think that is just pure genius! This is just a picture of my amazing punch turned upside down. My notebook with a close-up of the index tabs in place and labeled. I am not the best photgrapher, but my phone takes much better pictures than my digital camera. Student notebooks for social studies with their index tabs in place. Many of them wouldn't admit it, because it is so uncool, but they pretty much thought these tabs were pretty much as EPIC as I did!
