The girls and I were busy crafting up these handmade Valentine’s Day cards made from leftover paint chips (found free at any hardware or paint store). We had a bunch of different shades of red and pink, which made perfect Valentine cards!
To make your own paint chip Valentine’s, place two paint chips back-to-back as shown above.
I used a zig zag stitch around the perimeter of the card, and trimmed the edges with pinking shears. Very quick!
Emily and I took turns punching out hearts with the help of our heart-shaped hole puncher…
…and the girls went to town decorating their handmade Valentine’s! For Clara, I put down a few dots of glue and she placed the hearts on top. Great practice for fine-motor skills, and she was so proud of herself!
Emily got to practice some handwriting, and she is looking forward to mailing these off to Grandma!
These were so much fun to make!!
January 27th, 2010 on 2:01 pm
Dear Valerie,
I wonder if one of those valentines is for me? O:-)
Love,
Mark
January 27th, 2010 on 2:33 pm
very cute =)
January 27th, 2010 on 3:26 pm
Isn't Valentin's Day fun as well as a day to be just extraordinarily creative. What a nice way to say , Will you be my valentine?
January 27th, 2010 on 3:54 pm
Too darn cute! I'm a little bummed that I don't own a sewing machine!!
~ Jennifer
http://thetoyboxyears.blogspot.com
January 27th, 2010 on 4:32 pm
Love the sewing element of the card. Very pretty!
By the way, I finally resent the package to you – yesterday. I apologize for it taking sooo long to get to you. Fingers crossed it should get to you by next week, the latest.
January 27th, 2010 on 5:49 pm
Adorable.
January 27th, 2010 on 6:10 pm
These are adorable! Too bad I don't have a sewing machine
Maybe we could clue ours and use some stickers around the edges or something. Will have to look around and see what I can find! Thanks for the idea!
January 27th, 2010 on 6:37 pm
Love the idea of sewing on card… what are paint chips?
January 27th, 2010 on 7:07 pm
what an awesome idea – I so love it! You are SOOOOOOOO creative! I love your blog!
January 27th, 2010 on 7:07 pm
Shagdelic! We are doing something with paint chips too (but the sewing machine is DEFINITELY not involved!).
January 27th, 2010 on 10:44 pm
I love this! Do you use a special needle on your machine when you sew through paper? I've never used my machine for paper so I'm clueless.
January 27th, 2010 on 10:46 pm
@ Marie — Nope, I just use a plain ol' regular needle. For something like this, it should be fine. I've sewn through craft foam before, and I had to adjust the thread tension a bit, but I didn't have to do anything for the paint chips. Have fun!!
January 27th, 2010 on 11:21 pm
I really love it – as always very frugal and very creative.
January 28th, 2010 on 12:11 am
These are adorable!
January 28th, 2010 on 1:14 am
So cute! I love that you used paint chips. I use those all the time.
Love Val
January 28th, 2010 on 7:43 am
I love that you sewed the paint chips togehter – such sweet and unique cards.
January 28th, 2010 on 10:28 am
What a great idea. Okay now all the stores are going to be wondering where all the pink and red chips went!
January 28th, 2010 on 11:06 am
Those are super cute. I actually bought the children V-Day cards from the dollar store about a month ago before they were all picked over so no crafting for us.
January 28th, 2010 on 12:16 pm
Super cute!! Thanks for the idea!
January 28th, 2010 on 8:14 pm
So very clever. They look so pretty too!
January 29th, 2010 on 1:22 pm
What a great idea!!