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
OMG OMG OMG!! How AWESOME and FUN are these!! I could see my Boys just LOVING these to Pieces!! =) THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
ReplyDeleteADOOOOOOOOOOOORABLE! I love the feather and heart ends! Amazing project--- and I just know that your kids were the HIT at the VDay party last week:) LOVE LOVE LOVE! Great job, Katie <3
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! My kindergarten class would have loved to get these in their treat bags. I was the mean teacher and stapled their bags shut after all of the cards were delivered so that no one could eat their treats until they got home . . .
ReplyDeleteLove these! So CUTE!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute and charming idea!!! Love it - you are very clever and they turned out so great!!!
ReplyDeleteFabulous idea, love the quills :)
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