Last Day of School or Teacher Appreciation Cupcake Wrapper Printable Freebies

Two posts in one day?  Wow!  Here are a few that can be used for either the last day of school or for Teacher Appreciation Day.... or really any old day you want to thank your teacher.  Enjoy!

If you need help printing them or assembling them, go here.

 

 

 

Free Snow and Winter Cupcake Wrappers and Toppers Printable

Hi, Faithful Followers and Newbies from Pinterest!  Enjoy these free printable cupcake wrappers perfect for your winter parties!  We have snow on the ground today, so these were inspired by the pretty colors outside.  If you need them, there are directions for using these printables here.

Do you see the kitty outside the door checking out my pretty cupcakes?  I think he wants some. :-)

  Just cut them out.  You can cut on the black line, or make it easier on yourself and cut around the entire decoration like I did.

 Add some glitter glue and make them sparkle!  Be sure to tap off all of the excess glitter though. You don't want glitter on your cupcakes.

 Throw a gem in the middle of the snowflakes and stick them on top of your cupcakes by taping them to a toothpick!

And there you have it... winter cupcakes!

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More Free Cupcake Wrappers

I had so much fun making cupcakes to match my themes that I've made a few more printable cupcake wrappers. I thought I'd share them with you all. Click on them and they will open to full page size so you can save them to your desktop. Enjoy!!!

Pretty Cupcake Wrappers


Girly or Springtime Cupcake Wrappers




Superbowl Party Cupcake Wrappers

4th of July Cupcake Wrappers

Masculine Cupcake Wrappers

Tami

Other fun Fourth of July decorations...
5 Sets - Red White and Blue Lights Electric String Lights with White Cord - Patriotic Christmas Lights

20 Cnt 4th of July Red White Blue Star String Lights

Patriotic Color Whirls
30' Outdoor Patriotic Pennant Banner

Plastic Printed Patriotic Border Roll

Red, White & Blue Crepe Streamer
Love these!
Tag Firecracker Candles, Set of 4, Red White and Blue, 2.875-Inches High
Patriotic Paper Cups - 9oz. - Package of 25

The 30 Meals Plan

The girls over at Nanny Goat have come up with a 30 day meal plan that sounds like a great way to have staples for the meals you & your family like on hand. If you'd like to see what I'm talking about, run right over there and check it out. They have some great ideas for organizing your recipes and shopping lists.

Okay, I have had two sick kids, so I am a bit behind, but I've started my recipe card pile. They had a great idea where you laminate your recipe cards and put them on a ring so you can remove them as you need them. I like this idea, but I have no laminator, so I grabbed my cheapo $1 photo albums from the Dollar Tree that I never had any intention of using as a photo album. {I've been putting my recipe cards in them.} I'm thinking I will cut these books up and put my recipe cards in them. Then I will punch a hole in the corner and connect them all with a metal ring.

Here's what the photo albums look like. I made the cover with a scrapbook kit. {Sorry to whomever's it is... I wasn't planning to show this when I made this a year ago}. I may change the cover once I decide what the recipe cards are going to look like. FYI- the plaid binders behind the photo albums are my recipe binders which are in no particular order, so I have to search like a mad-woman to find any recipe that I may need.

Well, this is step one. Getting the cards typed up will be step 2!

If you decide to join in the fun, let me know in the comments. I'd love to see your recipe planner!

I am adding to this blog entry because I made my recipe cards. If you would like to print it out for yourself, feel free! This should print on an 8.5x11 inch cardstock perfectly and will print out a 4x6 card.

Click on this card first! Then you can save it to your hard drive in a larger size.

How to Make a Perfect Chocolate Butterfly

I had to make cupcakes for a bake sale, so I created these little cuppies. In order to make the perfect butterflies, I did the following:

What you will need:

Cupcakes

Buttercream icing

Melting Chocolate Disks in your fav. colors (I used Wilton's)

Optional: Wilton Large Confetti (I got mine at Michaels)

A gallon-sized Ziplock freezer bag

Make your cupcakes as usual and pile your icing nice and high so that the butterflies have something to land on. I also added some sprinkles to mine.

Next, right click on this image and print it out. You can print it on low resolution if you'd like. It is just a pattern.Next, place the image under a large piece of waxed paper.

Put your chocolate melting disks into the freezer bag and zip. Place in your microwave for about 20 seconds. Check to see how melted they are. Keep doing this until you melt the disks completely. Once you know how long your microwave takes, you can do it all at once. Mine takes about 1 minute for about 40 disks but all microwaves differ. Also, I do mine on high, but you can do it on medium if you'd like.

Tip: Depending on the type of melting chocolate, you may have to add about 1/2 tsp-1 tsp. of shortening to the disks to get them to be runny enough to squeeze out of the bag.

After the chocolate melts, mush it into one of the corners and twist the bag so that you have a make-shift pastry bag. Of course, if you have a pastry bag and know how to use it, you can do it in with that, but you can't put the tips in the microwave so you have to put the tip on later. Also, the problem with pastry bags is that most of them are solid so you can't see through them to see if your chocolate is melted.

Now you can cut a hole in the tip of the bag and start tracing your butterflies. I did the wings first and let them dry a bit. Then I did the bodies so they would be more 3D.   While the chocolate is still wet, add the confetti for dots. If you forget, you can use the melted chocolate as glue and put them on with it.

Another fun thing to do is this. Put a pretzel rod in the melted butterfly and pipe some chocolate over it to hold it on. Makes a cute lollipop, don't you think?

You can refrigerate your butterflies if you'd like, or just let them get hard on the counter. Once they are dry, remove from the paper carefully and sit them on top of your cupcakes. How SPRINGY are those?

Please send me pictures if you make these. I'd love to see how they turned out.

BTW... you can use any graphic you have and make any topping you'd like!

Tami