Luxury Chocolate

Turn an ordinary chocolate bar (well, as "ordinary" as chocolate can be, LOL!) into a luxurious gift with some HOT pink designer paper and luxurious ribbon and bling! Here I made a quick wrap for my big Carmello Chocolate bar with a 6x6 piece of Bittersweet Basic Grey paper and my "The Best Things in Life" greetings. (When I was finished, I couldn't help think how easily I could wrap 35 more bars with my pad LOL!) To me, this page in particular had a really magical, "candy vibe" to it!

This pattern definitely had "a middle" with these cool shapes expanding outward, so I really wanted to have my greeting centered on that midpoint. First I placed my 3.5 " round acrylic block on top, see how the cross hairs go right down the center and line up with the pattern horizontally?

Then I added my words. You can line up the bottom of your letters and/or the top with the block lines, sometimes you will have to use both on the same greetings when the size of your fonts are different. TIP: Always do your image placement on top of your DP when you are stamping on DP, it's not just about getting your greetings aligned and centered with the block sometimes, not just for centering like I did here, but you might need to work around a large or dark element in your print pattern that you don't want to cover, or where your word won't show up, KWIM?

Then when you stamp , you'll flip the blockover, lining it up with the pattern the same way you did before. Pretty foolproof!

Then I used my threading water punch down both sides (the little strips left over I'm actually going to save to glue on as a little trim on a card or something later), the scallops make it so much fancier and the silver foil peeping through the punched holes looks like bling all the way around! (I removed the Carmello paper wrap, it was separate, and left the foil in place) I had to take that a step further and add a couple adhesive rhinestones to the "o" centers in chocolate. Ribbon is SU! Chocolate Chip Satin.

And there you have a super inexpensive gift (think teachers and friends) that looks so rich and sophisticated! It's almost too pretty to open (but if someone gave me this bar, I think I would go block out time on my calendar to be alone with it LOL!)

(Around Christmas time I actually saw some large prettily-wrapped (I believe Hershey) bars at a craft fair, they were asking 8 bucks each! I really loved the idea, but ouch, the price! My candy bar was $2 and ribbon and paper were only about about 50 cents! We can do this, ladies!!)