Handmade Christmas Gift- Crafty Coupon Book

I struggle with giving Christmas gifts to the folks at work.  You don't want to make them feel uncomfortable with something excessive, inspire a "return" gift attitude, or be a dork.  O.K. I am clearly not afraid of being seen as a dork so scratch that last part.  My solution for the two ladies at work that I wanted to single out with a special gift was these coupon books.  Here's the details:

• The cover is cut out of cardstock and embellished with some scraps from Basic Grey's Sweet Threads collection.  There are a combination of patterned paper scraps and cardstock stickers (pendant, buttons, flowers, swirls and boarder). 
• The title was printed out of Word where I combined the picture from my blog header with some titles.  I created the coupons and the title in a table in the word document.  I tried to share the document but the table kept being saved in a weird manner.  Here a picture showing how I did it:

I first created a table in Word that had two columns and six rows.  I modified the row size and column size to fit five rows per 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.  Everything was approximate, but my first column is 2.25" wide and the second column is 6" wide.  You'll notice I have the margins extremely narrow (since I won't be printing to the edge).  The row height is 2.1".  I left the top and bottom borders of the table in place so I would have an idea of where to cut.

Next, I created individual text boxes within the second column containing the words/font/colors that I wanted.  I tried to pick colors out of my blog banner to match the Cover Page Title.  Here's a picture showing the individual text boxes.  I really just eyeball this part- sometimes using a Pinterest image or other internet image as a guide.

I realize this is complicated and assumes a certain amount of expertise with Word.  Inserting pictures in text boxes, editing font/color/size of text within a text box, and positioning/moving text boxes within a Word table are all expertise that I haven't explained.  However, there are tutorials online to help you and I would encourage you to play around with these options to create your own "art" for use in your projects.  Here's a clean copy of the text box image to help you sort out what is going on:

I ended up gifting these coupon books to ladies at work.  Wendy already turned in a coupon for an engagement card.  I'm still catching up on all my photographing and editing.  Coming soon... 

Thanks for your patience as I catch up and for a couple of picture heavy posts.  I'm off to Colorado to visit my grandma this weekend.  I don't think I'll have much time to catch up on photo editing and posting, but if I do you'll be the second person to know :)