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Dynamite Candy Tube Father’s Day Gift

Crafts & DIY, Father's Day, Free Printables, Gifts and Toys, Graphic Design, Holidays & Occasions

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Who doesn’t love a good play on words? I know dads especially fall into this category as many dad jokes are full of puns and fun word references. Give dad exactly what he loves this Father’s Day with an edible gift that includes a pun in a cute wrapped package. Make dad a dynamite candy tube for Father’s Day!

Candy tubes are SO versatile for holidays and gifts as their shape lends itself to become many things. When it’s clear, you can choose color patterns that reflect a holiday, like red, white and blue for 4^th of July or add some simple accents and turn them into carrots for Easter. But you can also wrap a candy tube to turn it into other things, like a stick of dynamite!

I originally created this dynamite stick look for a party I’ll be sharing later this year but it also works great for dear old dad!

Supplies:

Clear candy tubes
Black paint pen
Pipe cleaner
Red cardstock (with Dynamite message printed – download free printable here!)
White cardstock (download dynamite tag here!)
Baker’s twine
Hot Glue Gun
Candy

Print the dynamite wrapper on red cardstock. I ran a soft nail file over the top of it to roughen a bit and look a little more weathered before wrapping and adhering to the candy tube. To make the stick of dynamite look more finished, I painted the caps with a black paint pen. The small piece of pipe cleaner was added with hot glue, as the fuse.

To gift this set of sweets as a Father’s Day gift, I added this “You are dynamite” gift tag with baker’s twine.

A single dynamite candy tube would make a great gift for your dad but feel free to bundle them up to really play up the dynamite theme! Fill with his favor sweets or roll up a message to fit inside!

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Patriotic Fireworks Brownies

Dessert, Holidays & Occasions, July 4th, Recipes

Planning to host or attend a red, white and blue themed patriotic party this summer and need a dessert? Skip the American flag and boring old cupcakes and go the sweet and salty route. Consider making these quick and easy patriotic fireworks brownies to excite your taste buds!

This yummy treat pairs fudgy brownies with salty pretzels and has a sweet chocolate drizzle on top, all the things you look for in a dessert.

Ingredients:

Brownie mix
Water
Vegetable Oil
Pretzel sticks
Red, white and blue colored chocolate
PS this is my favorite brownie knife!

Mix brownies according to the directions on the box. Prior to putting into the preheated oven, break pretzel sticks in half and arrange on the brownies in a fireworks pattern.

Bake per box directions and allow to cool completely.

Melt chocolate which has been mixed with a small amount of vegetable oil. My favorite method involves small spurts in the microwave on the defrost setting and mixing between each spurt.

Put melted chocolate in Ziploc bag and snip the end of the bag.

Drizzle over the pretzel firework to create a second fireworks layer with colored chocolate. Repeat this step with two additional colors of chocolate.

These were so easy to make and tasted yummy!

I originally created these patriotic fireworks brownies for a patriotic emoji party styled for WholesalePartySupplies.com.

To see more of this red, white and blue patriotic party I styled, head over to their blog!

And see more of these two with the balloon arch here!

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Handmade Gift Idea: Framed Cross Stitch Extended Family Portrait

Crafts & DIY, Gifts and Toys

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Looking for a unique and personalized gift to make for someone focused on family? Consider spending some time to create a cross stitch extended family portrait! You can either print out the latest family reunion photo or merge several smaller family shots together to create one larger version of your extended family!

If you follow me on Instagram and watch my stories, you may have seen hints on this large format gift in the works. It’s an extended family portrait representing my parents, my family and my sister’s family all done in the stitch people style. I HIGHLY recommend this reference book for anyone looking to get into cross stitch people projects as I’ve used it many times now, to personalize the characters to fit my subjects.

If you remember, last summer I created a cross stitch family portrait of my family, which is now displayed in our entertainment unit in the living room.

For Christmas I created another family portrait of my sister’s family, the Days. It features her outdoorsy family in summer clothes, their boys’ red rain boots and my middle nephew sporting a fishing pole. Their black cat Smuckers even made the cut!

Well guess who was jealous of these? My mom. (PS her infamous phrase is “I want that” as she always wants what she sees, handmade or store bought).

So this winter I began working on a portrait which combined both our cross stitch families together and added my parents in the middle. I gifted this to her for Mother’s Day in addition to the garden pet rocks the kids painted her.

They own a brewery and often work the tap room, sporting the brewery t-shirts in black and green, so that’s the look I went for on their designs in this extended family portrait. I think my dad’s design is dead on, don’t you agree?

Consider starting on your extended family cross stitch portrait now so you have plenty of time to work on it before Christmas!

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Patriotic Toddler Photoshoot

Holidays & Occasions, July 4th

DISCLOSURE: I am a contributor for the websites seen in this post however, the opinions expressed here are all my own. This is NOT a sponsored post. To learn more, please review my disclosure policy here.

When your mom is a party stylist, you get used to lots of things going on in your house: pretty desserts you don’t normally buy, holiday setups that’s shown in the complete wrong time of the year and your room constantly being rearranged for the perfect shot. Last month my girls came home to a patriotic party display set up in Brielle’s room and after doing my shots and cleaning it up, I let them have fun with the props, which I captured as a patriotic toddler photoshoot.

The premise is simple, put on cute red, white and blue dress and you instantly have a patriotic toddler!

Much like our St. Patrick’s Day photoshoot, this one too included props.

They each got a pair of star sunglasses and a mini American flag.

There was no direction just me with a camera and these two with their imaginations.

They are actually reaching up towards the DIY Balloon Arch I had made for a Patriotic Emoji party for the Wholesale Party Supplies blog. I have to tell you, I’m kinda addicted to this balloon arch since it required no helium and the balloon strip was really easy to use. You can see the full tutorial on how I made it on this blog tutorial.

After a few photos, I thought they’d have more fun playing with the balloons so down the arch came.

A new level of fun began. It involved squeezing to try to pop them, kicking them around the room and running to see them follow you with their static cling.