Valentine’s Day - 2/15

Valentine’s Day Crafts gift and milk bottles—Silhouette promotion

I was recently sent some Double-Sided Adhesive paper from Silhouette and challenged to come up with a creative way to use it and make some Valentine’s Day Crafts. I have never used this before and I have to tell you, I was really quite surprised with how much I enjoyed it.

Before we get into my project and how I made it, let’s get the Silhouette February Promotion details out of the way.

This month Silhouette is offering a pretty good deal to The Idea Room readers…

If you need a Silhouette Portrait, you can get it and the Double-sided Adhesive Starter Kit for a great deal. Already have a Silhouette? Then use the code IDEAROOMand get the starter kit for $12.99. To take advantage of this deal simply click on the following link or the Silhouette Promotion image above and get started on your Valentine’s Day Crafts.

Order Silhouette February Promotion

Alright, now onto how I made these glittery milk and gift bottles.

Directions:

I found some fun heart shapes in the Online Silhouette Store and downloaded them.
Sized them in the Silhouette Software to 1.5 inches in width.
Cut them out according to the directions on the Double-Sided adhesive box.
My settings were: Speed: 3; Thickness: 33; Blade setting: 6 using my mat and a double cut.
Peel off the back yellow layer of paper on an individual heart.

Placed onto clean “milk” bottles (which are repurposed Starbucks Frappucino Bottles)
Peeled off the white top layer and made sure all the adhesive was pulled out of the negative space area where I did not want any glitter.
Dust glitter over the sticky adhesive and then using a clean brush, brushed away the excess glitter.

Then fill the bottles with your favorite drink. These bottles can be used at a Valentine’s day party in the classroom, or with your friends and family.

For Valentine’s Day we usually have a nice candle-light family dinner. I think I will be including these as part of the table settings this year!

Or you could gift the jars to a special friend as a nice little Valentine’s Day gift along with some VERY RICH chocolate sweets! Your friends will thank you!

For the fun Heart Shaped Cookies in the photos, I simply took a favorite Chocolate Drop Cookie Recipe and cut the cookies with a heart shaped cookie cutter. Then made a cookie sandwich by spreading some delicious Cream Cheese Frosting in between the two layers.

Cause seriously…if you are going to eat a treat…it might as well be a good one…right? All things in moderation of course. So limit yourself to 2…or 3 depending on the type of day your having…haha!

And just because I am obsessed with making labels lately…I made some fun “Bottled with love” labels.

You can download them here….

Bottle With Love Labels

You have to be a FB fan to gain access to the file. Click on “Get your free gift” at the top of the FB page and then click on “Previous Downloads”.

You can attach the labels as a fun gift tag, or attach it directly to the bottle itself.

Pretty fun little gift if I do say so myself. The best part? You can use this idea for so many different things…a birthday party, gifts, showers, bridal showers…etc.

Oh…where do you get the fun Hershey Kiss Valentine’s Day labels you ask? You can find them by heading here…

Hershey’s Kiss Valentine’s Day Labels

One last thing…be sure to use the code IDEAROOM get the Silhouette Promotion. The offer is good through the 14th of February. You also can only get to this special offer using this link…

Order Silhouette February Promotion

Have any questions about the Silhouette Promotion or Silhouette in general or any question…feel free to ask in the comments! Happy Crafting! xo

*Disclosure: I was given a Silhouette Double-Sided Adhesive Kit by Silhouette. However, all statements and opinions are mine.

February 2, 2013 · Filed under: Gifts, Silhouette Projects, Teacher Gifts, Tutorials, Valentine's Day Tagged with Silhouette discount code, Silhouette machine, Silhouette Portrait projects, silhouette projects, Silhoutte doube-sided adhesive, Valentine s Day Craft, valentines day, valentines day gift

Valentines Day Crate

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I have had this project in my head for a long, long time. I love, LOVE, LOVE fun containers and wood crates. If you are new here, and you enjoy wood crates like I do, you might want to check out a couple of my past wood crate projects…vintage wood crate and my table centerpiece wood box.

Well, this month as one of Lowe’s Creative Bloggers, I was challenged to make something for Valentine’s Day. I had all these cute tissue paper rosette balls from my past Valentine’s Day décor that I wanted to include in my Valentine’s Day Décor. I had been placing them in a small wooden tray.

Then realized that I finally had an excuse to get “motivated” to make this vintage crate with chicken wire I had been wanting to make. Yay! I love when I get to make something that keeps swirling around in my head. Does anyone else have this problem?

I purchased some wood and some chicken wire from Lowe’s and finally bought myself a staple gun that wasn’t an old hand me down that got jammed with every other staple.

It was a pretty easy project. I just built a basic box. I did want the top to be longer than the bottom so that there were some angles involved that I had to figure out…and it did make my head hurt a little bit. But I figured it out and only had to use a little caulk in a couple of places to make up for a little wonkiness.

I love that this wooden crate is so versatile. I will be able to use it for all seasons and be able to keep it out on display as a permanent part of my living room…which is under a makeover of its own!! We repainted this room to a nice creamy light gray/bone color…which I LOVE!!! Hopefully we will be finishing it up here by the end of February! Fingers crossed!

And…I had to do a little bit of creative cropping on these photos. My new kitchen table (which we had hoped to get finished before Thanksgiving…ha) is sitting on my living room floor. We have the top of the table all glued together. These projects take FOREVER!

But…one thing at a time right? Anyways…I will be sharing a full tutorial for this wooden crate later next week. And, my daughter who was hanging out with me while I was snapping pictures decided to make an appearance when I was shooting. Ha! I love that girl!

Thanks Lowe’s! Be sure to check out Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine and sign up for them if you haven’t. They are free and have a lot of fun projects in them!

*Disclosure: Lowe’s provided me with a gift card to showcase this project this month as part of their Lowe’s Creative ideas Bloggers team. However all opinions and statements are mine.

January 31, 2013 · Filed under: Lowes Creative Blogger, Valentine's Day Tagged with

Sugar Scrub Cubes Recipe

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2013 is not getting off to a very good start around here. When it rains…it pours…right? So not only am I in the midst of a huge elimination diet due to some newly discovered food allergies/intolerances, but my sweet Mom suffered a stroke on Tuesday morning. She spent two days at the hospital and we found that she has had some past strokes from her MRI. She is just fine now with just a few lingering effects and hopefully she should recover fully in time.

Unfortunately, we have been down this road before with my Dad who has also suffered several strokes. After one particularly large stroke, we discovered my Dad had a hole in his heart. He had heart surgery to repair the hole about 8 years ago.

Anyways, needless to say I wasn’t around much last week. Things are getting back to normal and I am trying to get caught up with my life. I have had this post sitting here half finished, but there were plenty of more important things I needed to attend too.

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I wanted to come up with a gift idea you can give to your girlfriends or yourself. The sugar scrubs I have shared recently have been a big hit. So I decided to switch things up and go with a Sugar Scrub Cube.

Sugar Scrub Cubes are fun because they are single serving cubes that have all the same qualities of an awesome sugar scrub in a fun this square.

I looked all over to see if I could find a great recipe, but I couldn’t find anything that didn’t require some special soap base, which I didn’t have. So I did a little experimenting and came up with a little recipe that I really like.

Here is what you will need:

Almond Oil or Coconut Oil (or oil of your choice)

White Granulated Sugar

Shredded Bar of Soap

An Essential Oil (I used DoTerra’s Citrus Bliss)

Mixing Bowl

Spoon

Microwave and possibly a double boiler

A mold or a scoop

This recipe calls for 1 part oil, 2 parts shredded soap, and 3 parts sugar.

Sugar Scrub Cubes:

1/4 cup Almond Oil

1/2 cup Shredded Soap

3-4 drops of Essential Oil

1 cup Sugar

1. Pour the oil into a bowl and add the shredded soap of your choice. Microwave this on high for 10 second intervals stirring in between each. If this does not work to slowly melt your soap into your oil you may have to melt the soap shaving in a double boiler. (If you don’t have a double boiler like me, simply place a small bowl over a saucepan filled with boiling water).

2. When the mixture is melted and and stirred together, add several drops of your Essential Oil. I used DoTerra’s Citrus Bliss. {If you have not used DoTerra’s oils, you are missing out! I love them. I get mine from my friend Julie Crowell. You can find more information by clicking on the link. I will be sharing a bit more about my love for doTerra oils in an upcoming post}.

3. Get your mold ready to go before adding the sugar. This is important because once the sugar is added the scrub will harden VERY quickly.

4. Pour in sugar and stir quickly. Take mixture and place it into your molds with your fingers. Or…if you don’t have a mold you can take a scoop and make rounded sugar “cubes”.

5. Let cubes harden by popping them into the freezer for at least 30 minutes. Then pop them out of the mold and cut them into fourths depending on the size you would like them to be.

Then simply throw them into a fun air tight container and add a cute label.

Sugar scrubs smell amazing and gently exfoliate your skin for a smooth feeling. The fun thing about these sugar scrub cubes is that they also have a fun “cleaning” element with the addition of the soap. And the citrus bliss smells amazing and has some relaxation and calming benefits which you can learn more about here.

And…you know I am going to be sharing the fun labels if you would like to make some for yourself. Click on the link below to gain access to the labels and to the use-age tag so that the gift recipient knows just how to use their fun and personal gift!

Citrus Sugar Scrub Cubes Labels

{click on previous downloads once you are taken to The Idea Room FB page}