Giant Candy Card

Cathy made this huge standing card for her neighbor's surprise birthday party and I love it so much I want to share - mostly so I'll remember how she did it and can steal this idea in the future!

To build the card she found a big piece of coated board in her garage that just happened to function like a white board - she can write on it and wipe it back off, perfect. You could also use a big piece of cardboard or something like that, you'll just not have the option of messing up and re-writing when you are designing it.

Then the hard part - coming up with what to say and where to add the candy bars in place of words. To start she bought all kinds of candy with names she thought she could use - Snickers has new packaging out right now that has perfect words on the front like "denied", "flustered", "awkward" that she used to make her card really funny.

She typed it up on the computer first in order to edit and change things around before starting in writing and taping the candy to the board.

The card reads:
"Turning 60 is nothing to 'snickers' about. The 'basic' truth that can't be 'denied' is: you are getting older! Your joints may start to 'crunch' after your morning walk and you may move like 'turtles' the rest of the day. So when you start feeling like a 'hot mess' because your 'butterfingers' keep losing your keys - don't worry, your mind isn't playing 'twix' on you - you have just become a 'space cadet'. Don't be 'flustered' when your 'whoppers' turn into 'raisinettes' and your 'whatchamacallit' needs 'extra' attention. It may be 'awkward' but you've 'tackled' bigger and harder problems. Even when you're old and grey and your 'payday's aren't producing 'mounds' of money we will still think you're a 'hot tamale'! Your 'sugar babies' and the rest of us (I think it's?) 'troublemaker's wouldn't trade you for a '100 grand'! Not now, not ever! Happy Birthday Cindy. We love you so 'munch'!

note: I might not be using the right words for a couple of these, it's a bit hard to read and even tho I saw it in person I can't remember exactly! But you get the drift ;) Isn't this so cute?!!

Dave kept trying to get her to change a couple of the sentences so he could eat the Mounds and 100 Grand bar LOL!

DON'T FORGET - YOU HAVE UNTIL 5 PM EST TOMORROW 9/18 TO ENTER THE DRAWING FOR A GIFTCARD TO CELEBRATE THE BLOGS 3RD YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! Click here for the "rules".

one year ago: goat cheese spread with apricots
two years ago: German chocolate cake