Valentine's Day Crafts

Sometimes I get crazy ideas in my head. Like the kinds that aren't ruled by any sort of logic or thorough thinking. The latest was after I saw, online, a holiday garland for Valentine's Day. I thought "I could totally make that and save 16.99!" Well yes, I could make it for sure since I'm pretty crafty, but could I make it for less than 16.99? I didn't think that part out. A trip to Michael's and 69.00 later, I exited with all the supplies I needed for my wonderful garland.

The garland came out like this:

It's close to 6 ft long and while it's not perfect, I'm proud of it!

Since I had about 59.00 worth of materials leftover, I made a few more garlands:

Unfortunately I ran out of the letter "V" so I can't do anymore garlands that use either the word love or valentine's. Oh well.

I'm happy with them all, some are better than others, but all quite cute.

And all very easy to make.

Here are the materials I used:
1 heart shaped lever puncher
1 whole puncher (heart shape)
Easy-Tear Tape (double sided)
Valentine's Day scrapbook paper book
Solid scrapbook colors
Valentine's Cupid Decoration Rounds
Red twine
Letter Stickers
Marker (red or black)

Each garland varies, but the very basic directions is to pair 2 hearts together, tape them together, and stick the letter on the more solid colored heart so it's easier to see it. Then take your marker and highlight the letter so it stands out more. Punch two holes in the hearts - one in each corner - and take your red ribbon and thread through each. If making the large garland, put the cupid decoration round in between each word. Otherwise, you can use that round to frame out the word.

Michael's is having a nice sale on Valentine's Day decorations & crafts so you could probably get all these material's for 50% of what I paid!

It's really really simple and make cute gifts! If you want to make several, just buy more letter stickers!