I used Mari’s Snow Much Fun for one last project.  I created a printable paper for the kids to write their letters to Santa!

Holiday wishes to everyone!  Don’t forget to check Mari’s blog tomorrow for our final post of the blog flip flop!

Now to wrap all my gifts!  It’s been pretty easy with Mari’s gift card holders and the candy bar boxes.  Today, for the 9th day of the Blog Flip Flop with Mari, I’m using Mari’s CD cover.  Wouldn’t it be a nice, easy gift to give a CD of the year’s pictures to a loved one?  This template makes it so easy.  And I used Snow Much Fun again, because it’s just the perfect winter kit!

Sorry for the quick post, but I’ve had a sick little girl at my house…and on her birthday, too!  She has a great birthday story…I posted about it last year.

Don’t forget to check out Mari’s blog tomorrow!

It seems this year that I am gifting a lot of gift cards.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the gift card…let them choose what they really want.  I just sometimes have a hard time presenting the gift card.  I still want it to look like a package, you know?  Then I saw this cute little holder.  (I couldn’t find it to save my life…if I find it or you know who originally did this, please leave a comment or email me and I’ll edit this post!)  Made with basic shapes and easy to assembly, this bracket card holder is elegantly simple and stands on it’s own.  I used Mari’s kit again…I know, I’m completely obsessed with it!  I punched a hole in the top and tied some cute coordinating ribbon.  This one’s going to Aunt Sarah!

Don’t forget to check out Mari’s blog tomorrow for Day 8!

I love little gifts.   And, I don’t know why, but especially ones that have food/candy attached to them!  My hubby thinks I’m too ‘cutesy’ and maybe the kids’ teachers are getting tired of superflous little trinkets, but I can’t help it.  For today, I made Christmas tree boxes filled with chocolate kisses.

I printed a solid green from Snow Much Fun on a 8.5×11 sheet of presentation paper.  Then I ran that paper through my Cricut.  **side note about my Cricut…as I’m really starting to play with it, I am falling more and more in love with it!**

I used the Bags, Tags, and More Cricut catridge.  The machine did all the work.  It even cut out a little window.  I covered the window from the inside using a transparency and a little tape.  I scored, folded, tucked, and filled.  Then I wrapped them with curling ribbon for some flair and to keep them from coming open.  Voila!  Insta-Cute!

Don’t forget to keep following our 12 Days Blog Flip Flop!  Tomorrow is Day 6 with Mari…and you know it’s gonna be cute!

Today I left another little treat in my kids’ teachers’ mailboxes.  We (ahem, I) made some dipped pretzels.  If you’ve never dipped pretzel, I highly recommend it.  It’s quick, easy, inexpensive, and the kids can help.  This time I dipped them in chocolate, but most times we dip them in the candy melts you can find at the craft store.  I sprinkled the pretzel (while they were still wet) with some peppermint crunch I found in the baking section at the craft store.  They were dry and ready within the hour.  I put them in little bags and stapled on these cute treat topper.  Once again, Mari’s kit, Snow Much Fun, is just too cute.  It comes out tomorrow, so go and snag it in the morning at The Digi Chick!

Sorry this picture is not the best.  Thank goodness for camera phones…I almost forgot to take a picture at all!  I printed the treat topper, scored on the line and punched the edge with a scalloped edge punch.  I’m all about quick, simple, and easy.  Just a little something that shows you care but doesn’t break the bank.

You want one?  You got it!  I’ve made the treat topper into a pdf download.  All you need is Adobe Acrobat (it’s free and you probably already have it) to open the file and print.  You can download the FREEBIE here.

She has an awesome new kit coming out on Thursday called Snow Much Fun…and it truly is!  We will blog hop back and forth each day, for 12 days, bringing you great gift ideas that are quick, easy, and inexpensive.  Make sure you check every day!

I started this week off right for my kiddos’ teachers.  I went this morning and left this little treat in their teacher mailbox…

I used my Candy Bar Box and, of course, Mari’s kit.  Each one of those boxes holds a Hershey’s Chocolate Bar…I mean, how can you go wrong with good ol’ chocolate?  This little project took all of 20 minutes, but they look like I worked on them for hours!  A little birdie told me that they really liked them.  I don’t think you can ever have too much teacher appreciation!

Be sure to check out Mari’s blog tomorrow for another great project!  You never know when there might be a freebie…

I really love the project I completed for this month’s files.  I can’t really tell you what it is…it will be revealed this week, I think.  But I love the colors and the concept.  And it’s useful…a plus in my book.  I can show you the preview of the sneak peek, though…

The entire collection is available now at over 50% off…you save $12!  It includes the kit, the lunchbox printables, the school supply printables, and the backpack album.  You can pick it up HERE for only $9.99!

INCLUDES:

2 Alphas (One Blackboard A-Z, One Doodles A-Z and Numerical plus a few special characters)
9 Solids
22 Patterned Papers
15 Crayon Doodled Stickers
5 Blackboard Art and 1 Blank Blackboard
6 Booklabels
2 Sticker Borders
1 Bus Frame
4 Doodled Frames
1 Felt Grass
1 Frame Holder
1 Staple
2 Strings with and without shadow
6 Crayon Doodled Word Art Stickers
1 Button
8 Paperpieced Fruits
2 Paper Frames
1 Bulldog Clip
1 Library Card
2 Ribbon Bits

You can also purchase everything separately…

You can find them in HERE.

Check out some work from the team…

from juliemomof4…

from love4mykids…

from hollykaychild…

I hope you love it as much as we do!  Leave a comment or link me up to your LOs!

Her newest kit is Happiness and it is just that!  I made these charts for my fridge.  I had them printed in the 12×12 size.  I’m gonna laminate them and hang them with a dry erase marker on the side of my fridge.  What a life saver!