One of the best things about this gift turned out to be the wrapping. I bought an easel to go with the tile and then I just wrapped the tile and attached the easel to the outside with a ribbon. Then I used the easel to hold the card in place. It made for an adorable gift.
These are the chore charts I made for the girls. I found pictures on the internet to go with each job that I wanted. I put everything on with velcro so their jobs change each day. Gracie has been so motivated to do her chores. I am really happy with it so far. I had all the extra pieces in a baggie on the back of the chart. It works okay but I am putting the extra pieces on the back with velcro. I think this will make it more user friendly.
Annie's brand in the natural foods section just happens to sell bunny shaped graham crackers year round and thought they would be a less sugary gift than the usual Easter candy. I put them in snack sized baggies so I could get about 8 small gifts out of one box of crackers. Then I stapled card stock to the top of the bag and added a stamp and the name.
I borrowed the idea for these from here. I liked this idea because you can vary it to use whatever you already have in your collective stash, and the sizing is perfect to get 4 calendars from an 8-1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock. I bought the plastic holders at an office supply store for barely over a dollar. The calendar I printed at home from my computer. I will post the rest of the months as soon as they are done! Don't throw them away, please, since they can be reused in the year 2015. :) Or maybe I will just send updated months for next year and you can cover up the old dates.
I am currently making 20 of the above tiles (with different names of course). This has been a big project but a very fun and educational project. Some of the things I have done/learned are 1) for each side I have had to adjust the size with the cricut design software (the software is a have to have item - love it!) and I also centered each line so that I could save time with the transfer process. 2) After cutting out each of the edge pieces and each name I cut them into strips and peeled off the vinyl that surrounded the words. This way the words stay lined up and spaced the way I want them to be. Then I just apply the transfer paper over the top of the vinyl and transfer it to the tiles. 3) I used 3 different cartridges to cut from and I found that it was not a huge inconvenience to switch the cartridges out because the computer is telling the cricut what to cut, it just verifies that you own the cartridges when you first tell it to cut and then doesn't really use them. I didn't have to reinsert them when I cut the same page over and over again. I would never spend the money for the jukebox that they sell. It just isn't worth the price.
ectors containing the stickers that go along with the pictures I am currently scrapbooking and I don't 
have to haul out two binders for just a couple pages.
I thought this card idea could be helpful to use up letters of the alphabet that you have left and can't spell anything out of them. You could use "C"s for Celebrate, and "F" for Fabulous, and so on to use up letters that aren't in Happy Birthday. Here I used only two metal circles, mostly because I didn't have room to spell it out with that large of embellishment. If you don't want to hand-write in the rest, use a computer font or small letter stickers.
Any Cricut cartridge that you can put the object in a circle makes decorating the top of these paint cans super easy. Just measure the diameter of the lid and that is the height setting you will need for cutting. Gift cans could hold more than just calories and be just as sweet - any small gift like stickers, a pair of earrings, chap stick, or mini bottle of lotion is a fun surprise.
