Sunday, March 14, 2010

Valentines day craft


This is a much belated post about the Valentines I made with Graham this year. I saw this idea in Better Homes and Garden magazine (which I love and is probably so much better than you think it is). Anyways, I think they turned out cute and were a hit. Really easy to make too.

Sorry if the pictures look terrible; they are from my phone. These are the finished valentines. A garden full of Grahams! Slightly creepy!
I was lucky and found a pack of nice blank pink cards at the dollar store. I bought green foam sheets to make the flower stems but you could use any kind of paper really or even draw them on. I layered a couple different colors of muffin liner cups together so make the flowers more interesting, glued it all together and onto the card. Then I printed, cut out and glued on some photos of Graham's head. I just eyeballed it and they all ended up fitting pretty well.
I filled the insides with stickers that I also found at the dollar store (yay for cheap valentines!). I felt it was appropriate to use stickers since Graham can't write yet and they are suppose to be from him not me. I was grilling him, trying to get him to say nice things about his friends and family so that the valentines could really be "by" him. It went like this:
Me: What do think of Abigail?
G: Abigail is pretty!
And voila! That one worked out perfectly for a valentine. But I wasn't so lucky with others..
Me: What about Charlotte? What do you think of her?
G: She smells good.
Me: okay...
G: Like yogurt!
And while it was funny, perhaps not a great valentines message. (Charlotte ended up with "You are nice")
Here they are before the picture was glued in. I think they look great like this too.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love them....but Terry thinks they are a bit creepy...he's no fun.