Hello friends!
Today starts another
Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge. This week is an ANYTHING GOES challenge, so albeit a day late, I thought I would share the Valentine's Day treats that my girls handed out to their classmates on Friday.
Valentine's Day is like the winter equivalent of Halloween whereby sugar and all things sweet seem to rule the day- at least for the classroom set. The girls LOVE Pixy Stix and begged me to figure out a way to make these sticks of sugar into a Valentine. We ended up fashioning them into arrows complete with feathers and heart arrowheads.
We die-cut hearts using the
Hearts Dies and glued a heart to the end of each stick. Colorful card stock cut with the
Feathers Dies adorn the other end of the arrow. I wrapped the base of the feathers with a bit of washi tape to help keep them in place.
It's just not Valentine's Day without a punny sentiment, so the
Love Struck stamp set came to our rescue with the fitting "Quill You Be My Valentine" sentiment. We stamped the sentiment onto a circle punched from white cardstock and mounted the circle to pink card stock cut with the
Pinked Circles die before glueing it to the Pixy Stix.
Once dry, the girls could write the to and from information on the back of the circle. From what I was told, most of these arrows didn't make it out of the classroom parties and were consumed on the spot. So now, a moment of silence for the 2015 Gehring Valentine's... we barely knew thee, and are grateful for your contribution in making this Valentine's Day just a bit sweeter.
So, now it's your turn! Make anything you like using Paper Smooches Stamps and link up your creation to the
Paper Smooches SPARKS blog by Saturday, February 21 at 11:59 PST. The winner of this week's challenge will receive a $30.00 gift certificate to the Paper Smooches shop! Yay!!!
Be sure to check out the inspiration from the other Paper Smooches SPARKS team members playing along with this week's challenge:
That's all for me today! Thanks so much for stopping by! I can't wait to see what you create!
Katie