Creative dollar bill suggestions?

[ncbyrne]

There's a website www.wheresgeorge.com. .

I've been doing this for years. FUN! The first bill I saw that got me hooked had a red stamper on it. I have always just used a red pen.

 

[ncbyrne]

I am loving these ideas! I too hate to just give a card with a check or bills in it and am always looking for unique ways to present $$$. At Christmas one of my favorite is to take one of those big plastic candy canes that are filled with individually wrapped hard candies, take out the candy and put it back in occassionally adding a wadded up bill. It is great fun to watch the receivers face as they think they just got candy in a plastic cane until either they notice or someone else notices the balled up bills inside. I imagine you could do the same thing with a candy jar of wrapped candies. I have quite a few books on making origami creations with dollar bills and even have a book on folding bills into paper airplanes. There is also a neat shirt frame floating around out there that is a plastic frame where you use I think it is five or six different bills folded on it to ultimately look like a brand new dress shirt, I really like the completed one. I also will take a common object such as a mayo jar and fill it with crumpled bills, put it in a gift bag and then write a funny story to go along with it. Of course you have to make the person read the story before they open the bag... and don't forget you must also weigh the object down - for example in the center of the mayo jar I used rolls of quarters to get the approximate weight. That one came out sooo cute, the story really played with words and pulled on BIL heartstrings and he was so not expecting what he found in the bag! Anyway... good luck with whatever you decide! It actually can be quite fun to give money!

Could you please explain more about "the story"....I'm not getting it.

 

[Princess Tink]

My friend gave her nephew a card she made (scrapbooking materials), with a sax on the front (found a sticker the the scrapbook store) and folded the bills and used temp. adhesive to adhere to the card like it was coming out of the instrument. BTW, he played the sax in band. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen.

 

[Newfie2000]

Could you please explain more about "the story"....I'm not getting it.

Let me see if I can locate a copy of one. The one that I most recently did was on Hellmanns Mayo and although at the time I saved it on the computer I have since bought a new computer and am not sure if I made a copy of it. I am currently searching through cds of old files and will then go into the filing cabinet and see if I have a paper copy of it. Wish me luck!