A gift idea for Tae Kwon Do teachers.

My daughter has been in tae kwon do for almost 2 years now and we love Master Amanda. This summer Master Amanda married Master Billy Joe and now we are lucky to have 2 Masters. But now we're needing to give a gift to 2 Masters instead of just 1. Last year I made the cute little gingerbread men ornament for Master Amanda. Here is what I came up with this year.

Supplies included:
11x14 frame
2 12x12 scrapbooking sheets (TKD themed)
Scrabble tiles (from more than one game)
double-sided scrapbook tape
double-sided foam tape

To begin, we decided what we wanted the background to look like, and pieced it together to fit the frame. We used the double-sided scrapbook tape to adhere the pieces together. For the word art on the front, we had to layout our words in advance to make sure we had all the letters we needed. The one word we knew we wanted from the very beginning was TAEKWONDO. Then we tried to think of important words she has learned and settled on the Tenants of Tae Kwon Do:
COURTESY
INTEGRITY
PERSEVERANCE (yes I noticed it was spelled wrong in the picture)
SELF-CONTROL
INDOMITABLE SPIRIT

So we built the crossword using them. It fits just about perfectly. I laid it all out in the frame and then adhered the tiles one at a time with the foam tape. This gives them a little dimension and sticks really well. Having a gridwork on the central paper helped to keep them straight as well.

The finishing touch was to write our Christmas wishes on the back of the frame with a gold sharpie.