It's so fun to give people something that you truly love right? I think so!
Some of my favorite gifts include handmade soap from Whole Foods, Cuvee Coffee beans and Burt's Bees colored chapstick. In fact, I love these things so much, I plug them all the time without endorsement. So, I can't wait to share these cute chapstick dynamites with my friends.
I combined some of our Simple Surface papers with our gold glitter sticky sheets and shimmer trims. PS: My favorite chapstick color is Hibiscus.
Cut your cardstock 2.75" x 3.5". Add a little adhesive to the ends and wrap it around the outer tube.
Cut a 1/4" x 3" strip of glitter to wrap around the top of the inner tube.
Then push the top inside chipboard disc out of the tube and cover it with glitter.
I just stick a square of glitter to it and cut around it with scissors.
Now punch a hole for your fuse.
Tie a knot in your gold cord, add a dab of glue and thread it through the hole.
With the disc sideways and the fuse entering first, put it back into the inner tube.
You can gently pull on the fuse as you push with your finger from the other side. Be careful you don't get your finger stuck... these tubes can double as those finger handcuffs from when I was a kid!
I have been experimenting with calligraphy pens lately, so I decided to try lettering my own message to wrap around the chapstick before I put it back into the package.
I penciled out my message in a practice book.
Then I traced it onto vellum. I quickly found out that vellum is slippery and the ink likes to sit on top.
Oh well, I was "going" for a hand done look and I sure got it!
My sentiment then got wrapped around my chapstick and re-packaged.
I hope my friends think they are dynamite!