Valentine’s Blocks

Here’s a set of Valentine’s blocks I created with some pined wood, paper, and vinyl.  I cut my blocks at 3.5″, 4″, and 4.5″, and painted them an antique white.  I picked some cute Valentine’s day paper, and cut them just a bit smaller than my blocks.  I trimmed the corners with my rounded corner punch, and stuck them on with some mod podge.  (I meant to ink the edges before sticking them on, but forgot)  I cut my vinyl out to spell the word LOVE, and tried to do them smaller than my paper (I screwed up with the O though).  If you...

Valentine’s Day Pencil Holder SVG

I found this super cute pencil holder svg online and thought it would be perfect as a classroom Valentine’s Day gift.  Either kids can give them to classmates, or teacher’s to their students. I downloaded the file and imported it into my Cricut Design program to cut out there.  I first put the Valentine’s day svg’s onto my Cricut canvas, then added some text to the hearts.  I did Be Mine, one in pink, and the other in black.  I then used the handy print and cut feature that Cricut Design offers. Some playing around and re-sizing did need to be...

Tribal Theme Owl Bookends

I found some beautiful tribal themed digital papers online at Etsy, and decided I had to use them.  They’re full of bright, vibrant colors, and I thought they would be fun to create a set of owl bookends out of. For this set I picked a dark teal with pink for my paper.  I added cute teepee and arrow Cricut images to each bookend, which I cut out in dark pink and dark teal green.  I also added a neat shadow effect to each owl to give them a bit of a 3-D look.  To finish everything off, I added some pretty silver gems to the eyes and front edge of each bookend to...