Classroom Valentines x 4!!!

Okay, so I was hoping to have these up no later than noon, but it's been that kind of a day!

So early evening  it is, but they're still in time for a weekend project or two.

These are the Valentine's my girls will be sharing with their classes this year...

Nothing amazing, but they are sure excited so I think I did okay.

So here's the dirt on making these things:

My husband scored an amazing deal on packages of silly bands...like the FREE kind of deal so I was determined to find a way to not have them at my house. Enter Valentine's Day--oh, I love it even more!

My 2nd grader has a friend with a severe nut allergy in her class so these were perfect. I made up a fun little tag to fit over the top of each bag, I taped it into place on the bag and done!

If you'd like it, you can have it!

Click on it, save it to your computer and then print this baby out-I went with the standard 4x6 and unclicked the fit to frame button so it wouldn't cut off the flowers!

The little airplane I first saw at my sisters house. She whips them out as thank you gifts for her primary substitute teachers. Since then, I've seen them all over pinterest so I new I had a winner!

You need smarties, a stick of gum, two lifesavers, and an elastic.

The elastic goes through the lifesavers and then loops up onto the wings.

Place the smarties between the two lifesavers, but under the elastic and you just became an airplane mechanic!

Here's what I learned, wrap the gum in paper because the elastics pulls it down and don't use the candy lifesavers--go with the mint ones. The candy ones get really sticky and nasty...

my preschooler is taking these:

Perfect for pre-k, right! The pencil is a roll of sprees candy wrapped in yellow paper. A Heshey's kiss made up the point and pink and gray paper made up the eraser end.

For the tags on both the plane and pencil I just used the textbox options in microsoft word.

And last, this is my favorite! It fits my 6 yr olds personality to a T!

Inside each little bag are two gumballs and chocolate lips. The tag reads:

I only "BLOW KISSES" to people I like!

You could substitute Hershey's kisses here to but te lips were to cute to pass up. I found them at my local Dollar Tree.

I'm going to use the same tag but fill a larger container for her teacher.

Here's the tag if you'd like it, same deal as before.

Click, save, print.

I wet wallet sized again unclick the fit to frame button.



I have a few more to finish so I'm off to the papercutter and tape!

Have a great weekend-

Happy Crafting.

Tuesday Treats featuring...Measured by the Heart & Easter Printables!!!

Hi everyone *waves* I’m excited to be here at Craft Goodies.  Isn’t Wendy the greatest!!

Let me introduce myself.

My name is Connie and I blog over at Measured by the Heart.  My blog is a big jumble of everything because well, isn’t that life.  I do some furniture make overs, hair tutorials, blog design, crochet patterns and book club.

Wait, did you just say book club on your crafty mommie blog?

Why yes, yes I did.  Thanks for asking.  I host a monthly book club on my blog and I am so super excited about April’s book club selection!!  I would love it if you would come over and check it out.   Even if you don’t participate in book club, you have to read this book.  Yes, I love it that much and so will you!!

For all you Craft Goodies readers I made some Easter Printables.

Click on each picture to download a high quality print!!     
{Once the website opens, hover over the picture and then you can click file-download}

These would be super cute framed in a row down a hallway or up the stairs.  Even way cute as a four square above a desk.  So many possibilities!!

It’s been great spending time with you guys today.  I hope you’ll stop by my blog and take a look around!! 
A BIG thanks to Wendy for being such an awesome chicky!!
{get it Easter theme hehe}

Connie is awesome!

 I'm so glad I've gotten to know her a bit better. She has a fun blog with lots of great "mommy" ideas, and she gets bonus points for having all girls too!

I'm excited to be a part of her book club, (more excuses to read a good book!) If you're interested in participating there is a permenant link to the club on my sidebar.

Go check her out, be sure to say Hi!

And thank her for these SUPER CUTE printables, I'm off to Walgreen's to print mine...

Thanks Connie!!!

Happy Crafting!

Wood You Like to Craft? the Craft Goodies way...April Project!

Hey friends,Just a quick reminder that this month's Wood You Like to Craft? linky party starts Friday 4/8 at Sassy Sanctuary and will remain open for one week! If you played along or plan to be sure to link up your project. 5 will be high-lighted with the top pick winning a super fun prize.All 4 versions are up over at Krysal's blog, go check them out if you need some inspiration...here's mine... I'm linking this project to the CSI Easter Challenge

  "I'm so excited to be here to share with you my take on Krystal's Candlestick Rabbits. I knew what I wanted to do the minute I saw them... 

So what did I do different? Let's find out...

 

First, I didn't use candlesticks! (I think I have an issue with size, maybe it's my awesome-not-quite 5'2" stature that makes me feel the need to up-size, but once again I went BIG!)I purchased two 29 inch table legs from Lowe's. They had quite a few to choose from, ranging in height from 9 inches to 36 inches. And in several different styles, some more rounded, some a lot less ornate. The cool part is the ends are all finished with a sphere-ish end and a squared flat end-perfect for a rabbit head and a base to stand up on!I didn't need any other wood pieces because of the shape of the legs. I did cut the base on one to shorten it a bit and cut off the extra "bump" from the tops.I painted and sanded and then got to decorate... 

The cheeks are "blushed" with pink ink. The nose and carrots are polymer clay. Black thread for the whiskers, painted eyes, and drawn on mouth and freckles.

The ears are cut and sewn muslin-stitching on the outside and ruffled a bit for shape. Blushed with ink in the inner ear, and slipped over a wire loop to help hold them up.

I used a "boring bit" to make a 3/4 inch tunnel in the top of the piece to give the ears a place to sit.  Everything is hot glued into the tunnel so the ends don't stick out and it helps to give a strong support to the ears. Sorry, forgot to take a picture of that...

Then it was just raffia, some ribbon, and a few flowers to finish them off and TA! DA!

2 super cute, slightly tall, adorable rabbits!

{Even my not-so-in-favor-of-my-projects daughter walked by and said,

"GOSH! Those are cute mom!" BIG TIME compliment...}

Thanks Krystal, for a great project and for letting me be here today!

I can't wait to see what other ideas you've inspired...

Happy Crafting!"

Homemade Valentines, Fun Printables, and My Re-Vamped Valentine...{What Wendy did Wednesday}

Now that's a title! I really haven't been that creative, more like re-creating to suite my needs. My two little girls have their Pre-K Valentines Party today and we needed treats. Their class is very small-only 6 little munchkins, so I feel okay going a little overboard. But in reality, these weren't that bad. They both went together quickly once I had everything I needed. I am seriously thinking about making more for my bigger girls... 

I know these pop up around Christmas a lot, but thought they would make a fun Valentine.

The tutorial I found listed a 5 pack of gum and a roll of lifesavers to form the body of the train.

After 4 different stores and only being able to find gum sold in the new "slim" packs and lifesavers individually wrapped in a bag, I had to improvise. And you know what, I like how they turned out! And better yet, my girlies think they rock.

I ended up using a snack size kit kat for the base {wrapped in v-day paper} and starbursts "Reds" for the body. Peppermint Swirls for wheels, a lollipop smoke stack, and Palmer's Double Crisp bars for the back compartment. I left everything in it's wrapper except the peppermints-I learned from our candy cane hunt that none of them like peppermints so no need in keeping them edible, and hot glued it together.

Just in case you can't see it, the tag says,

 "I Choo-Choose You, Valentine!" 

I have a serious love affair with vintage valentines going on, if I can find a way to use one I will. I downloaded and saved a bunch of them {google search "free vintage valentine images"}just hoping I'd find a purpose. I ran across a valentine made from puzzle pieces that said,

"You're My Missing Piece"

and new I had found my excuse!

Because I'm not good with photoshop, I probably went about this the hard way, but it worked. I took my downloaded images to my local Walgreens, cropped, edited, added the text, and a border, and then had them printed into 4x6 photos.

I mod podged the photos onto 1/4 inch MDF and then went to work with my saw.

 {I did first draw out a puzzle pattern onto paper then traced it onto the back of each piece as a guide}

I cut each photo into 5 chunky puzzle pieces, then bagged and tagged 'em.

SO CUTE! A fun little vintage puzzle for each of them.

You could easily do this with chipboard or a cereal box to mass produce quickly.

So while I was at Walgreens I decided to print up a few of the free printables that are all over blogger-wonderland of late.

These two came from Sprik Space.

She has so many more printables available for anything you could think of, in several different color combos, and you can print them off in any size you want! And, they're free-amazing! The ABC's are an 8x10 and the Blessings is an 11x14. Such a bang for my buck, and aside from sticking them in a frame-no effort on my part what so ever. Love it!

If you exchanged valentines with me, hurry, close your eyes! Kidding-you can peek...

Just wanted to share my re-vamped project.

{Well one of them anyway-I went from having no exchange buddy due to an odd # to getting two partners due to lost emails! I've never been so happy to have had emails misplaced!}

My gal pal neighbor and I worked on these together. We re-designed a recipe box, made non-matching recipe cards matching, turned an empty frame into a magnetic recipe holder, and made a cute little magnet to hold the recipes in place. We had a riot-hope our new friends enjoy them.

And last just because I think this is hilarious, I share this... 

This makes me wish I had a son! So FUNNY!

You can find instructions on  how this valentine was made at

Craft Monkey

{I might make my girls do this anyway, they too would think it awesome...}

Well, there you go, a few ideas for some last minute Valentines and a good chuckle!

Happy Wednesday and Happy Crafting!

Our fight against Cancer

I have to start by saying I am SO glad last week is over! It was a tough one. Driving back home I made the  to my husband that I hadn't felt that emotionally drained and just plain tired in years.  Thank you to so many of you for your sweet and uplifting words. Your thoughtfulness touched my heart and your prayers were indeed felt.Our grandma spent a few days in the Huntsman Cancer Institute early last week. While waiting for another series of treatment she and my husband ran across a small 12x12 tile with the following quote: Cancer is so limited.It cannot destroy love, it cannot shatter hope.It cannot corrode faith.It cannot destroy people, it cannot kill friendship.It cannot surpress memories, it cannot silence courage.It cannot invade the soul, it cannot steal eternal life.It cannot conquer the spirit. She commented to my husband how true it was and that she wished she had a copy of it to share with all of us dealing with her illness.  

We put our heads together and quickly came up with something we could give her. She asked that I share it, so that others might find the strength and comfort that she did in those words.I hate cancer. It took my mother, mine and my husband's grandfathers, and now our sweet grandma. It's mean and ugly, and hurts so many. I do hope that any one that has been touched by this disease can find strength in these words and hear the truth in them. Cancer can take pieces or all of our bodies, but it cannot take who we are! Thank you again for your thoughts and prayers. I've included a link to the document I created for our grandma. Please print and share it with anyone you think it might help.  

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