Chocolate Kiss Roses

I love making these super fun and easy roses. My favorite way of using them is for my kiddos teachers on Valentine's Day. I arrange them in a vase with Whoppers, tying it with a bow and adding a card that reads; You're a "Whopper" of a teacher... Thanks a "Bunch"!

To get started you'll need: clear, pink or white cellophane - wooden skewers - a bag of chocolate kisses (if you're using clear cellphane be sure to buy the pink or red wrapped kisses) - glue dots - green florist tape - green tissue paper and a pair of scissors

You will want to prepare buy cutting as many 5" x 5" squares of cellophane and tissue paper as you would like to make roses. The scissors will slide across the cellophane making the job easy to accomplish in no time.

Attach a glue dot to the bottom of a chocolate kiss. Then attach a second kiss so that two kisses are adhered together on the flat sides. This will make the rose bud shape.

Place the rose bud shaped kisses in the center of a precut 5"x5" piece of cellophane. Wrap the cellophane around the kisses bringing it down the sides so the edges all meet at the bottom point of one end of the kiss.

Place a skewer next to the point of the kiss and twist the cellophane around it tightly.

Place the florist tape at the point of the kiss and wrap it around the kiss point, cellophane and skewer. Wrap it tightly. The trick to florist tape is pulling it tightly. It will stretch making it adhere to itself and give you a tight hold. Once you feel your kisses are securely attached begin wrapping the florist tape downward at an angle.

Next take a piece of the precut 5"x 5" tissue paper. Scrunch it up at the bottom corner leaving the top open as seen in the above picture.

Place the scrunched up corner against the skewer as shown above. Wrap the florist tape around it and the skewer.

Continue to wrap the skewer until you've reached the bottom.

And there you go! See... super easy. You can totally do this!

Lollipop Lips & Mustaches

These simple, yet adorable little Valentine's are a breeze to make.
Almost guaranteed to put you up on the amazing mom pedestal.

To get started you'll need red and brown foam sheets, lollipops, a pen, a paper punch that matches the size of the lollipop sticks, scissors and labels.

For ease I've provided a template... courtesy of blonde-designs. Just click on it and print it.

Use your templates to trace the shapes onto your foam... then cut them out. Make sure to leave yourself tons of time for this if your doing more than a handful. I personally traced the number I needed and cut them out a few at a time during random free moments over the period of a couple of days... cutting out 77 of was a bit of a tedious endeavor.

Use your paper punch to place a hole in the center of the lips. For the mustache punch the hole towards the bottom center.

Slide your lollipop threw the hole pushing the foam cutout towards the top. Then place your pre-printed or hand written labels with names on the stick of the lollipop. My boys wrote their name on one side and their friends on the other. I take the labels and fold them in half with the sucker stick in the middle.

Voila! You're kiddos will now hail you super mom!