Valentine Hearts and Roses

By Lynda Kanase

The fun part of being creative is that everything around you has potential for being something more. Take, for example, this small candy box that I received a few years ago. It only held three pieces of candy just to give you an idea of the size of this box. But it also held a lot of potential for a future Valentine’s project which I made today.

Hearts_roses

Here is a composite photo of supplies I used.

Supplies

I used only the lid of the candy heart box. I also used a piece of flat styrofoam cut to fit inside the heart. I cut pink roses using the Tattered Pinecone die. I used a combination of two shades of pink paper from the new Sizzix designer paper pads plus a lighter shade of pink cardstock for variety.

I hot glued the roses to the styrofoam insert.

I made this as a gift for my Dear Handyman {my dear boyfriend} so it only seemed appropriate to add a new technique I learned using plumber’s tape from the hardware store. Plumber’s tape is inexpensive, shiny metal adhesive tape about 1 7/8″ wide. My friend Wendy told me about this tape and when I asked Dear Handyman about it, he gave me a roll of the stuff. I decided to use it to make a tag to go with the Hearts and Roses box.

Tag

I started with a piece of Plumber’s tape about 4″ long and a red piece of cardstock cut to the same size. I removed the backing on the tape and adhered it to the cardstock. Next, I used a die from the Tag Collection set and cut a small tag.

The next step was a little tricky. I wanted to deboss just the word “Love” from the Sentiments Shadowpress debossing folder set. The folder originally said “Love You”. So I used a pair of Sidekick Cutting Pads {any cutting pads will work but the Sidekick ones are small for better control} and sandwiched only the word “Love” before running it through my BigShot. I ended up with just the word “Love” cleanly debossed in the metal plumber’s tape tag.

Valentine_roses

I added some thrifted heart lace around the outside of the box and some ribbon to the tag.

Simple yet sentimental.

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About Lynda Kanase

Founder and Chief Designer of i-crafter Creative Products and current Crafter, Maker, Stitcher, Scrapper, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Instructor, Anglophile, Dog lover and Mom trying to make the world prettier, one project at a time. Please join me on this creative adventure.

29 Responses

  1. VMG206

    Beautiful! Just the sort of inspiration I’m needing for V-day this year!
    Thank you for sharing this week at Brag About It link party on VMG206 (Mondays at Midnight).
    ~ Megin of VMG206

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  9. createwithjoy

    Thank you for sharing this gorgeous project at Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy –
    I’m excited to share that you are one of our Featured Guests at this week’s party! 🙂
    #213

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