Monday, July 6, 2015

Father-in-law turns 70


My father-in-law turns 70 tomorrow.  What a milestone birthday!  Of course you want to do something exciting to celebrate.  But. . . what does he need?  Nothing!  So I took an idea from a friend, added to it from Pinterest, and came up with a candy card.  
  

I went shopping before I planned out the card--- just randomly picked out some candy that I thought I could turn into phrases.  I wouldn't recommend this method but it worked. 

Then I opened a word document and started planning.  I highlighted the candy bar names so it would be easy for me to know when to put in a new candy.




I started writing on the card.  I know I am a teacher but I have yet to have that perfect teacher handwriting.  A professor told me that when she graduated, you had a test on writing neatly on a chalkboard.  I don't know if I would ever had graduated with that criteria.  My handwriting tends to go uphill.  Then I catch myself and it goes downhill.




Anyway, I ran out of room so I ended up putting the parts about my daughter on another page.  This worked well as the big poster paper is from my husband and I and the little paper is from her.




I thought about hotgluing the candy but then worried about it melting the wrappers.  In the end, I glued down the candy with my ATG gun.  I love this thing!   It is basically a large tape runner.  

Remember how I said buying random candy worked?  It worked well because I ended up with a couple of extra pieces.  Yum!   Anyway, I hope my father-in-law likes his card!  We also made cards-- I will post about that tomorrow.

I am linking up to Monday Made It from 4th Grade Frolics.  This is a crafty link-up that I love! 

My candy bar card project is really my 2nd Monday Made It!  The first is this blog.  I just started it on Wednesday (you know, new month = new blog).  I would love to hear your blogging feedback/ hints/ tips.  Thanks! 

4 comments:

  1. I love the candy card! So sweet. Welcome to the blogging world. I'm new to it too. Well, technically I made my blog a year ago, but I didn't start posting until a few weeks ago. I'm impressed with how many posts you have already.

    Megan
    Adventures Teaching Fourth

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    1. Isn't there just something enticing about the idea of blogging? Those who blog year round make it look easy. :) I will tell you the secret of so many posts-- scheduling them in advance! I write up a couple at a time and then just have them ready to go for the next couple of days. Sneaky, sneaky!

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  2. Love your candy card!!! - what a really fun idea and perfect for someone who doesn't really need anything - candy - well everyone needs that. So clever!!

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    1. Thanks for the comment. Of course everyone NEEDS candy. :)

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