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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Valentine's Day!!

Another fun holiday coming up...Valentine's Day! Continuing with my attempts to recycle and reuse, I came up with these cute Valentine's Day cards.


Here's what you will need:

  • Tissue paper (The stuff from Victoria's Secret purchases works great!)
  • Mod Podge (regular white glue would probably work too)
  • Brush or sponge for Mod Podge
  • Notecards or card stock (remnants of flashcards...)
  • Cardboard or whatever you want to adhere your hearts to
  • X-acto knife
  • Scissors
  • Pen or pencil

(The paper bag in the picture above will be used to make envelopes)

Step 1: Tear the tissue paper into a bunch of little pieces and Mod Podge them to your notecard. No particular method...just whatever you like.

Step 2: Once the notecard has dried, turn the card over and draw your heart.

Step 3: Using an X-acto knife, cut out the inner portion of the heart.

Step 4: Using scissors (or the knife again, if you prefer) cut out around the outside of the heart. You will end up with the shapes below:

Once you have your hearts, affix them to cardboard, or card stock, or whatever else you have in mind! I used double stick tape for mine...the Mod Podge made the hearts curl a bit so I thought the tape would help to fight the paper's urge to curl.

I also embellished with another of my many $1 stamps and cut down the inner heart a bit so it would fit better.

 

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