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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

12 Days of Christmas Gum!

So Day #5 in the 30 Days of Holiday Give Aways was suppose to be a template for this sleeve to go over the pack of gum, however my scanner was not cooperating the way it should so I'll just give you the easy instructions. You know they just estimated how much the 12 presents from the 12 Days of Christmas song would cost this year and it was a whopping $97,000 dollars. I have a much cheaper version...........the 12 Days of Christmas Gum which will cost you all of $1.19!
Take a pack of Dentyne Ice gum and slide the sleeve off of it. Carefully pry it apart at the seam, flatten it out onto a piece of colored cardstock and trace around it. Cut it out and score the lines where you would fold it. Glue some colorful snowmen on the front. Fold and using a scrapbooking tape runner, tape up the side tabs by overlapping them. Using a thick Sharpie marker write the numbers 1-12 on the back of the gum. Tuck the pack of gum into the sleeve and write "to" and "from" on the back of the sleeve and ta-da, you are done! Now you can whip up a bunch of these babies for your friends, your kid's teachers (they chew a lot of gum, it helps with their jaw clenching), etc.....
You know you could even stick 2 sleeves together and turn it into "Advent Gum"!