Inspiration: The latest entry in our fruit themed Valentine's. We're trying to make sure we hit all the colors of the rainbow and already have pink/red (strawberries), yellow (bananas), purple (grapes), and orange (oranges).
How I Made Them: I used a circle stencil for the round part with a medium blue paper from Hollo's (it's acid & lignin-free paper for scrap-booking but a little thicker so almost card stock). Then I hole-punched a dark blue paper and free-hand cut a star-ish shape around the hold. Used glue to get everything together. An blue gel pen was used to write "You're true blue, Valentine!" To finish it off, the 7-yr old signed her name of the back of each card (in pink, of course).
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Other Ideas:
- Staying with a rainbow of fruit (some of these you might see in future years): green (limes or kiwi), red (apples)
- Other themes: sports, cartoon characters (I'd probably use found images but you need to be careful of copyright)
- I also have this idea to do heart-shaped cards that are like mini-collages with magazine cut-outs (Maybe I'll try this one soon)
- I also totally want to pass this on so the now 7-yr old is making her own and we haven't work with Heart-shaped doilies yet...
