Final V-day Projects

I know it's over, but I wanted to share a few more pics of my Valentine's Day craftiness.  I made the cards for the gift bags, but this photo is of my kiddos with their gift bags.  Hubs had one too, but he's not in the photo!

Gotta love the morning bed head!

 Everyone got personalized insulated cups for V-Day.  I had a friend pick these up for me at Sam's Club. It was a box of 6 for $20-something.  Very cool cups...add a little vinyl cut with the Cricut and you've got yourself a personalized cup.

 Then, cake pops for Miss Avery's class.  I have the Babycakes Cake Pop maker (looks like a little waffle iron) and let me tell you...that baby WORKS!  I love it!  I usually make at least 5 dozen when I make them up and then freeze them.  When you need cake pops, take some out of the freezer, decorate, and voila...CAKE POPS!  These were dipped in red coating and then pink coating was splattered on top of that.  Add a cute cello bag and it's a wrap!

Her class (Kindergarten) was fascinated with them!  They're fun to make and I think easy enough for the kids to decorate.  I will confess that the kids did not help decorate this batch.  We were expecting a snowstorm on the 13th, so school on the 14th was looking doubtful.  I decided to NOT make the pops on the 13th only to have school and the party cancelled.  Murphy's Law...since I didn't make the cake pops, it didn't snow, and the kids had school.  I am SO GLAD I had the pops frozen.  I decorated them in about an hour and then had time to get ready and take them up for her party.  Phew!

Hope you enjoyed the last of my V-Day project photos.  Look for more cake pops in the future!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I have a few projects to share with you today.  One is the finished product of the heart crayon project that you saw earlier in February.  Here's the end result:

All bagged up and ready to go!

The tag...sorry this pic is so awful!

A while ago I decided that I was going to join the Peachy Keen Stamp of the Month Club. I love the projects I see online with their stuff, so I thought this was a good way to start out.  The first set did not disappoint!  SO CUTE!  But, I soon realized that I needed markers to color these adorable stamps in with.  I had read a lot online about Copics, so when I saw a set of 6 at Hobby Lobby I decided to bite the bullet.  I thankfully had my phone, and so I used the 40% off coupon.  Needless to say, the next 2 times I went to Hobby Lobby I picked up another 6 pack and used the coupon.  Now I have all of the ones that HL offers...guess I'll have to find somewhere online to get more colors!  This is my first attempt at coloring.  I hate to toot my own horn, but I LOVE these cards!  

 I have a 6" x 6" red base that I inked the edges with black.  Next comes a black square, followed by a Kraft square, and topped with the white square.  I stamped the image on the white, colored it in, and then adhered it to the card layers, once I had rounded off opposite corners.  I really like the effect of the opposite corner rounding.

 To the inside, I added another white square (with the opposite rounded corners again!) and used the "Be Mine" stamp from My Creative Time.  I love this heart...it is so cute!  I believe the HVD sentiment is from the PKS Stamp of the Month.

 Variation 2 of the card...this one is for my nephews, so it's a bit less "girly"...I think!

 I love this card!  I'm not sure if I love it so much because it's my first time coloring a stamped image or if I love it because I just sat down and created it...I didn't follow anyone's project for inspiration.  Either way, I love it!

Now, I can't leave my own family out of the V-Day love!  So, each of them has a gift bag for tomorrow morning.  I thought I should make them a cute card for the gift bag.  I cut a 3.5" x 7" white cardstock and then cut 3" squares of Kraft.  The stamping and die cut heart are all from My Creative Time.  I love her stamps and dies.  LOVE LOVE LOVE them!

The heart is a die from MCT and then the stamp fits perfectly inside...how COOL is that?  This is the first time I've used these sets and I have to tell you...they are beautiful!  I love how they turned out.  The stamps just stamp such a beautiful crisp image.

The three bags, for my three loves!

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day, surrounded by people that make you feel loved.  I am so thankful to have such wonderful family and friends.  This has truly been a great month for me and I'm feeling the love!  Have a LOVEly day!

Crayon Valentines

Avery and I decided to do something a little different for her class valentines this year.  We got our inspiration from her Daisy Girl Scout troop.  They had made Christmas ones at their December meeting, so we thought we'd do Valentine's Day ones!

Without further ado...Valentine Crayons....

We used a silicone baking mold that I picked up at Hobby Lobby.  Take small pieces of crayons (small pieces are better because they'll melt easier) and fill the cup up about half way.  Bake at 250 - 300 degree oven until crayon bits are completely melted.  Warning...it will look like a watery mess, but trust me...once it cools, magic happens and they're fine.

Pop the crayons out of the silicone mold and repeat!  Repeat and repeat and repeat until you're all sick of messing with crayons!

Dear hubs had the suggestion of punching a heart out, stamping on it, and attaching it to the front of the crayon.  Great idea, dear hubs...so we did it!  Heart punch is Creative Memories.  Stamp is from My Creative Time.  It's all attached with a glue dot.

Avery didn't want to just do pink and red, because you know...sometimes boys don't like pink and red.  So we got crazy!  There are green ones...blue ones....yellow and orange ones.  We mixed colors, we used metallic crayons....we just had fun with it!  Be creative...no two crayons will be alike.

~kinda looks like a plate of cookies, doesn't it~

Hugs for you ~ Hugs for me

 The plan is to place these in a cello bag, add a tag to the top, have Avery write her name on it, and then pass them out as her classroom Valentines.  Hopefully if we get that done before this post goes live I will add a photo of the totally awesome and totally complete project.  :-)  If you're reading this, then that didn't happen before the post went live!

I hope you enjoyed this post.  This was a fun activity that I was able to do with my daughter.  She is 5 and starting to love crafting time with Mom!

Valentine decor

Here's a quick project I made with the Cricut.  I picked up this cute frame at Hobby Lobby.  It was half off, so I think I paid $4 for it.  The silver background paper is leftover from the igloo cards that I made a while ago.  The "LOVE" lettering is from Art Philosophy.  I laid it out in Cricut Craft Room and cut it in black vinyl.  I applied the vinyl to the front of the frame.

Yes....I know what you're thinking.  "Does she seriously decorate her bathroom for Valentine's Day?".  Yes, yes I do.  I know it seems kooky, but that's ok.  I don't decorate it for every holiday, but V-Day is an easy one to do, so I swap out a few things and it's a Valentine kinda mood in the loo.

My blog is going to be seeing a lot more posts than normal.  I'm doing the LOAD class (click HERE for information) so I'm posting a scrapbook page every time I complete one.  Theoretically I should have 29 posts in February since I should have 29 layouts, but I'm not sure if I will be able to keep up the pace.  I'm going to try though.  Then, in addition to the LOAD challenge, I want to keep you informed on my other craftiness happenings, so February will be a big month for the old blog.  I hope you enjoy the constant postings!

Now go and get your craft on!