Happy Valentine’s Day friends, I hope you are surrounded by love today. As a Valentine’s Day treat I helped my girls make sharpie tye dye heart shirts. It was a so much fun! I love how clean and easy it was as a morning project for a sweet holiday. Continue reading “Valentine’s Day Tye Dye Shirts”
I am so excited about the girls’ valentines this year! Each year we do something fun with pictures of the kids. This year they wanted to give their friends silly straws (which they call crazy straws). So we came up with these cute valentines. Continue reading “Crazy Valentines”
Valentine’s Day is a month away! I don’t know about you but my favorite Valentine’s Day candy is conversation hearts. I love those sweet, colorful tiny hearts with cute sayings on them. Although the last few years I think they taste different, and not in a good way. I’m not sure if they changed the recipe favors or if my adult taste buds are different. Either way I still eat them 🙂 This year as a fun activity for me and my kids I wanted to attempt to make our own.
Realizing Valentine’s Day is only a little more than a month away, I have been looking back through some pictures of past Valentine’s Day snacks I made for various parties and friends. I put together a few ideas to share here for my readers.
This is a simple crepe paper rosette wreath that I made last year for my front door for the Valentine’s Day season. I did it a little each night for about a week while I watched tv with my husband. Continue reading “Valentine’s Day Wreath”
Each year around Valentine’s Day I like to make cute shirts with the girls for them to wear on and around Valentine’s Day. Continue reading “Valentine’s Day T-Shirts”
I was thinking about wanting to start decorating tomorrow for Valentine’s Day around the house since it will be a month away. I usually like to include the girls by letting them help me create a new decoration each season. This year I had seen a neat butterfly footprint idea on Pinterest. I decided to use that and adjust it a little to personalize it to our home and Valentine’s Day coming up. So here is what we came up with! Enjoy 🙂
This is a tutorial of sorts on a kissing ball I’ve made to increase my Valentine’s Day decor which will be brought out soon!
I’m excited to share this because I’ve really enjoyed making it and was inspired by other crafty bloggers who have made similar kissing balls or wreaths made of crepe paper roses. This is a fairly inexpensive craft. All you need is crepe paper (I got 2 rolls for a dollar at the dollar tree), hot glue gun, glue sticks, a styrofoam ball (I’m guessing this is the most expensive part, but I had some left over from a craft a few years ago that I bought with a coupon at hobby lobby), and a ribbon.
To make the crepe paper roses I first ripped a piece of crepe paper of about 18-24 inches long.
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Then I crumpled the piece and then straightened it back out and begin rolling on one end.
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After about 4 or 5 turns I began twisting it around the top of the rose looser than I started just like a real rose.
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The key is to loosely twist and turn the crepe paper around the top then hot glue a tiny dot to the end of the crepe paper to attach it and make sure it does not unravel on you.
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I made a bunch, then cut the “stem” short on each for easier gluing to styrofoam ball.
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It really helped me to set the stryofoam ball on a roll of masking tape to keep it still while I glued the roses on. Before I started gluing roses on I attached a ribbon with hot glue as a hanger but this is optional if you want to just set it on a mantel or in a decorative bowl. The hanging kissing ball is traditional like mistletoe and when you and your sweetie walk under it you kiss 🙂
To attach the roses just put a small dot of hot glue where you want to attach it and gently push the rose on and hold for a minute. Put the roses fairly close together so you cannot see the styrofoam ball. Its pretty simple and fun. I got pretty carried away just watching tv and making roses so I’m working on a wreath now of white, pink and red ones! I hope you enjoy, any questions I’d be glad to try and answer. Happy crafting!
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