Valentine's Day 2015

It's that time of year again to get your Valentine Card ideas rolling. I am exciting to do something creative for my stepson to take to school. I will, of course, need his "official" approval, but for now I have a few ideas running around in my head from Pinterest. I cannot wait to share with you the winner! Hopefully, I will have more blog posts before then to share. :)

Valentine's Day

This is a little late, but I thought I'd still share our Valentine festivities, which just included eating a yummy steak dinner, pigging out on sugar, and watching Game of Thrones and Dexter.

Jon got me flowers and a much needed gift certificate for a massage. It's weird what a bunch of extra weight in your uterus does to your back. Tulips are "our" special flowers. I actually have never particularly loved tulips, but when we were dating, Jon kept buying them for me, because I would say I loved them. One day, I finally confessed that I hated tulips, but I had received so many tulips at that point that whenever I see tulips, I think of my husband. So they're our special flower.

Jon made us some delicious steak for dinner! All the sides were my doing, but it definitely wasn't the highlight. The steak was fabulous! He cooked it well done per pregnancy rules, but next year we'll have to do medium rare. 

 Overall, we had a fun day, and we had the kind of Valentine's day that we needed: low key, intimate, at home, and quiet!

Kids' Valentine's Day Cards Round 2

Micah agreed that we could make Super Hero Lollypop Valentine's Day cards. I wish I could come up with my own ideas, but I am not that original yet.

Instructions/Printables

The instructions are here at the Little Bit Funky blog.
The printable graphics are here at Less Ordinary Designs.

Cape Template 

 

There is no cape template so my husband made mine for me which you can download by clicking this sentence or the above picture! When you print it, make sure your  page scaling is set to none, otherwise it won't print to the right scale. I put measurements on the cape so you can verify that yours printed correctly.

You need:

2 inch circle punch and scissors
1 hole punch (which I already had and did not include in cost)
Felt (the blog recommends stiff felt, but I just bought the regular flimsy kind.)
Ribbon
Lollypops
Glue
Cape Template
Printables
Sharpie (to trace cape template on felt)

You can either use a 2 inch punch or scissors to cut out the circle. I recommend this Fiskars Squeeze Punch, the X-Large size is the one that cuts 2 inch circles.I bought mine at Michael's and used a 40% off coupon, which reduced the costs from $16.99 to $10.19. What a deal!

Based on my cape template, I was able to fit 9 capes on each piece of 9x12 felt square. The total felt cost was $1.65. Because I printed the printables 4 times each, I needed 1 of blue, black, green, and 2 of red.

I bought 4 spools of cordinating ribbon for $3.49.

I used some Aleen's tacky glue to adhere my Super hero logos to the felt, and it worked fine. I gave it about 20-30 minutes to dry before assembling the super hero lollypops.  I used regular computer paper, when I printed my logos up, but I would highly recommend using some sort of cardstock. The glue won't appear as much, and the colors usually look nicer printed on cardstock.

Lastly I bought 3 bags of Tootsie pops. I could have just purchased two, but I wanted a variety of colors since which colors you get is random. The total cost was $6.72.

Total cost: $22.05
If you already have a punch, then it cost even less to do this project! Definitely more expensive than regular V-Day cards, but so worth it, since they are SO cute!

I am really pleased with how the Valentine's cards came out and I think the kids will be too.

Kids' Valentine's Day Cards

Last year I did handmade Valentine's Day cards for Micah's class for the first time! I got the idea from pinterest, and found the blog here. So cute!!!! Mine are a little different than the original blog post, but that site has the file for "Our class would knot be the same without you."

This year I will ask Micah about what kind of Valentine's cards he'd like to give out. I know he prefers cool character ones that you buy at the store, but if we do something handmade, I will post the end results!