30 sucks! A Literal gift

I know I'm not the first person around blogland to do something like this, but when I found out that my sister was feeling a little down on her 30th b-day, I knew this belated gift would cheer her up!

I took a gift tin I had lying around and covered the outside with fun scrapbook paper.  Inside, I used a brick (cut to shape) of dry floral foam covered with tissue gift paper.  I had experimented with other ways to present the 30 suckers, namely clustering them like flowers, but I couldn't find a better way to make it sturdy enough to mail.  

For fun and for visual appeal, I put the 30 suckers in 5 rows of 6 suckers in rainbow color order (or as close as I could get to it with the selection of pops {tootsie and blow} I had available).

My tag says "30 sucks!  But you are great!"

I punched the circles out of paint swatches I had on hand, and added the number stickers.  I hand wrote the rest of the sentiment.

For the record, I don't think 30 is really all that bad.  In fact, the further away from it I get, the better it looks!  AND I try not to use words like "sucks" too often in regular conversation--don't want my kids picking it up--but, the pun was too fun to pass-up this time.  It did bring a smile to my sister's face!