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Archive for February, 2010

The Best Free Printable Valentines

posted by cindylouh on February 13th, 2010 | valentine's day crafts, valentines |

One again the web is overflowing with free Valentine printables. If you are in need of some last minute Valentines that can be printed right at home check these out!

Jeanne Winter's printable Udaman Candy Bar Wrappers are perfect for your man!

Little Miso shares her lovely card.

Rubber Punkin has these Valentines with awesome graphics

These little cuties are from Style Crush

I am loving Secret Agent Josephine's cute animal Valentines.

Vintage Holiday Crafts have these free vintage Valentines. Visit the site and click on a picture to download a larger individual Valentine.

Hotcakes has some cute Valentines that can be colored.

Also check out her printable love coupons.

mmmcrafts shares these adorable would you be mine Valentines.

Zakka Life has these cool rockin' Valentine wrappers for suckers.

Cottage Industrialist shares her  fun rocket Valentines.

and if you need some pretty gift tags Paper Glitter can fix you up with these

and these.

Or Living Locurto has these fun tags that fasten to the top of a sandwich bag. She also has matching Valentines.

I hope you liked these free Valentine printables!

Check out last year's round-up of free Valentines.

You might also be interested in making a Lollipop Lily Valentine, Butterfly Valentine or a Ladybug Valentine.

More ways to celebrate Valentine's Day can be found here.

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Crayon Heart Pencil Toppers

posted by cindylouh on February 12th, 2010 | kids, kids crafts |

Earlier this week I posted about candy pencil toppers. I received a comment from Diane who mentioned at her school they could not bring in homemade edibles, in fact it is a new state wide law. YIKES. She had a great idea to fill the molds with melted crayon. I think the crayon hearts make really great pencil toppers.

Use the molds for making hard candy, the white ones NOT the clear.

Place a few chopped crayons into molds .

Place mold on cookie sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes at 250 degrees. Watch closely. Wax is highly flammable so extra care must be taken. Remove once crayons have melted.  The molds should be about half full.
Allow the crayon to cool just enough to thicken. Place plastic pencil pop in heart mold at a slight angle.
In oven proof container melt more  crayon. I used a tin can with the edge bent for easy pouring. Place can on cookie sheet or in pie plate to make it easier to remove from the oven. Also like colors melt best together. We choose blue and purple for the back, but it looks black. It colors fine but didn't make the heart very pretty.
Pour melted crayons filling up the hearts to cover the plastic pencil pop. I first tried melting enough crayon in the molds  so the last pour wasn't necessary, however I had too much trouble with the melted crayon running back into the pencil pop reservoir part of the mold.
When completely cool pop out of mold.
The Long Thread has a darling free printable to use with a crayon heart. If you are looking for some yummy treats and fun ideas visit Diane at Created By Diane. Her photographs are lovely!

Find Pencil Pops at LorAnn Oils. Use code candy to receive 15% off.

Gold Medal Cookies and an Olympic Torch

posted by cindylouh on February 11th, 2010 | kids, kids crafts |

If you are looking for some Olympic crafts skip on over to AlphaMom to see how we are celebrating the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Paypal Can’t Buy Me Love, But It Can Buy Me…

posted by cindylouh on February 10th, 2010 | Giveaways |

PayPal is doing a fun campaign this week called “Can’t Buy Me Love” Sweepstakes. They are giving away some amazing prizes as well as offering special discounts from cool companies for Valentine’s Day gifts.

All you need to do is Follow PayPal on Twitter and RT one of their  daily offer tweets  using the hashtag #cantbuymelove and you are automatically entered for a chance to win awesome prizes including:

  • His & Hers flip Mino
  • “A Night on the Town”
  • Nook eReader
  • And More!

There’s a new winner every day!

You can also follow PayPal on Facebook to find out even more insider giveaways and discounts.  Check out the Can’t Buy Me Love Sweepstakes to see all of the special sale offers and items being given away.

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So we all know money can't buy love but what can it buy you?  It can buy Laurie at Tip Junkie… Headbands!

And it can buy me loads of craft supplies. This month I used my paypal account to buy some unusual items for some upcoming tutorials.

My flex frames, rectangle purse frames, lavender buds, sealing wax (for the hot glue gun, cool!) and zippers have arrived and I am ready to craft!  Now that you know what Laurie and I would buy, head on over to Kim at Today's Creative Blog on Thursday to find out what she would buy!

More Valentine's Ideas from Paypal and The Knot:

Date Night On A Dime
Gifts For Him
Why I Love My Spouse More (Than When We First Met)

‘Toad’ally Cool Pencil Pops

posted by cindylouh on February 8th, 2010 | valentine's day crafts, valentines |

I have talked about pencil pops before. I think they make the best party favors. They work great for hard candy suckers ...

or melted candy coating.

Supplies:

Candy coating
pencil pops
valentine pencils
plastic bags
ribbon
candy molds (mold need to have a place for the plastic pencil pop, see picture)

Directions:

Place plastic pencil pops into mold.

Melt candy coating slowly in microwave.  It is important to not overheat as it will scorch. I used about 38 candy disks to fill the mold of six frogs. Fill molds.

Gently tap mold to make sure there are no air bubbles and candy coating has completely filled the mold.

Allow to completely cool and harden. Remove from molds.

Place small plastic bag over candy from and tie with a ribbon.  Labels can be made by downloading tag, printing on paper, cutting them out and wrapping around pencil and fastening with glue stick.

You are 'Toad'ally awesome tag download

The same molds could be used to make gummi frogs. How about placing some in a baggie and stapling a tag to the top. Learn how to make Homemade Gummi Candy here.

You are 'toad'ally awesome plastic bag topper (fits most ziploc type bags)


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