Valentine’s Day - 3/15

Tic-Tacs Tik-Tok Valentine

Here is another quick and easy homemade Valentine’s Day gift. This is another simple one that you can simply print the label and paste it right over the existing label of a box of Tic Tac’s.

It doesn’t get any simpler than that does it? These could be fun to give to your teacher or your significant other alone or in a gift basket.

And, of course I am sharing my free labels with you. Simply click on the image of the label below. This will take you to my FB download page if you are already an Idea Room FB fan. Then click on previous downloads. There you will find the labels to download.

If you aren’t an Idea Room FB fan, the link will take you to my FB page which you must like first. Then click on Get Your Free Gift in the upper right hand corner of my FB page. Click Previous Downloads.

I have a couple more simple gift ideas coming this week and then I promise to move on to some bigger and better home décor items. Is anyone else getting tired of the cold at your house? I have been so unmotivated because it has been so frigid over here! My pipe in my kitchen sink even froze. If you follow me on FB you know that we were luckily able to get the pipe to thaw slowly, saving us from a burst pipe. Thank Goodness! Those are not fun!

Valentines Day Gift—I Chews YOu!

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I have an entire week of some simple Valentine’s Day Gifts ideas and free printables to go with them coming up! I meant to get this up sooner…but had to deal with a frozen pipe under my kitchen sink today. Good news is, we were able to slowly thaw the frozen line and so far things look like a disaster has been averted. Thank goodness!

Last week I shared with you a couple other Valentine’s Day gift ideas…Crush Valentines Gifts and the Sealed with a Kiss Valentines gift ideas.

Today I am providing you with this printable “I Chews You!” Valentines day gift tag. All you need to do is wrap up some gum or a “chewy” candy and add the fun tag.

To get the free printable you can simply click on the image below. This will take you to my Idea Room Facebook Fan Page. You will need to like the page to gain access to the printables.

(Simply click like and then in the upper corner click on Get Your Free Gift). Then click on Previous Downloads. You will be able to click on the label here and print it. You can resize the labels for you various needs by choosing your printer selections to print at 100% or smaller.

I have been having a lot of fun lately playing around with and making labels…so don’t be surprised when you see them popping up here this week. I promise to stop shortly though, cause I have a recent project that I made for my son’s room recently that I am super excited about!

I just want to be sure to get out these Valentine’s Day ideas so that if you want to use them you will have plenty of time to get them done yourself before Valentine’s Day comes!

January 15, 2013 · Filed under: Free Downloads, Valentine's Day Tagged with Valentine s Day Craft, valentine's day, valentines day, valentines day crafts, Valentines Day Free Printables, valentines day gift

Valentine Specimen Art

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Do you guys remember the butterfly specimen art that I made for my daughter’s room a couple of years ago? Well, I thought it would be fun to make an Valentines Day Craft and decoration using the same concept.

This is really such a simple craft and décor idea. Anyone can do it. Plus, with all the snowy weather at my house…it is fun to sit by the fire and create something pretty! Seriously, it is snowing like crazy here. The kids are hoping that school gets cancelled tomorrow…but it takes some serious snow to get school cancelled around these parts. (*Update—School DID get cancelled…haha…and it is still snowing like crazy!)

Another great thing about this project is that you will most likely have everything you need around the house to make one for yourself.

Here is a list of supplies you will need:

an 8 x 10 picture frame without glass

red cardstock (I threw in 3 pink hearts too)

a heart punch (mine was about 3/4 inch)

mini glue dots (any glue should work though)

I then measured the inside of the frame area by width and height and figured out how to evenly space out the hearts. I ended up with 7 hearts across the width and 9 down the length for a total of 63 hearts. (60 red ones and 3 pink ones).

This would have been super easy with graph paper and since I didn’t have any on hand…I just drew it out with a ruler. Then I took a clean sheet of white cardstock and placed it over the top of the lined paper and made a mark where the dots fell so I knew where to place each heart.

Then I put a mini glue dot on each pencil dot. I used the glue dots to give the hearts a bit of a 3 dimensional feel because they allow the hearts to sit flush on the paper. Then I simply folded several of the hearts in half and put the hearts on the paper in a random fashion.

Is it hard for the rest of you to do a random pattern? My OCD really flares up and I have to have a little conversation in my head about not making a random pattern that is not really random. Does that make sense? I might be a little bit crazy! Do any of you do this too?

So simple and easy. I also like the little punch of color it adds to my entry way! Don’t you?

And by the way…I don’t think I ever shared my “new” entry way with you yet. Gasp! I know! This Home Décor blogging is hard! These projects take FOREVER and then you feel like you have to get it JUST right before you can share it. Well…we are almost finished in here…so I am allowing you a little sneak peek!

And I am currently in love with this wallpaper. I swore 9 years ago that I would never let another piece of wallpaper ever grace the walls of my home after spending an entire year removing wallpaper from EVERY. SINGLE. ROOM of this house when we moved in. Eighties Wallpaper…need I say more?

But…It had to be done. And I love it!

Hope you all have a great weekend. Here’s to hoping we can dig our way out of all this snow…or stay in and drink hot cocoa! I like the second part better…’cept for the fact that I can no longer drink hot cocoa. Darn!

Wondering how to make the little kissing and pomander balls in the wooden tray? You can find tutorials for the Tissue Paper Rosette Balls and the Pomander Balls by clicking on the blue links.