I know it's pretty early to be thinking of Valentine's Day, but when your lovie is gone you start thinking of holidays way in advance because you have to send your packages out pretty early. For Valentine's Day, lovie will still be in the States, but will have just gotten to a new place, so I will have to be quick at finding out his mailing address for the new place.
I have an idea for a Valentine's to make lovie from our little guy. (It involves paint and very little, squirmy hands). So I will have to post that once I make it.
From me I decided to go with a version of the "52 Reasons Why I Love You" project. I actually have done one of these before, years ago (for an ex-boyfriend, shhh), and I didn't like how it turned out so I wanted to make it a little differently this time. There are all kinds of different types and tutorials of this project on Pinterest for you to get some ideas, but I actually wanted to keep mine really really simple, although on other projects I usually would add a lot of embellishments and bling.
For this project I used:
When I did this project previously it was actually really difficult to write out 52 reasons, but this time I wrote all 52 in literally like 20 minutes, with a few extra reasons as alternates. (If lovie ever reads this, I hope that makes him feel good!). I think it's easier to write them out when you have lived with someone and you have a really caring and loving man like I do! Not that I am encouraging living with someone, but for all of the teens and people that are just dating, it might take a little longer to write out the reasons. I would suggest starting a list and writing down new reasons every few days when you think of them.
The first thing to do is to figure out how you want the cards punched, or not punched... some people decorate them then put the cards in a box. I did two punches about an inch apart in the middle of the cards. Then after the Index Cards are cut into thirds, they are ready to be pasted on. I used a paint brush to put a little bit of modge podge onto the card, put the index card on top, and put another layer of modge podge over the whole thing. Let them dry completely before writing on them, but once they are dry write away! Most other people do them typed, but I wanted to keep mine handwritten. When lovie is so far away a handwritten note is much better than something that is typed.
To tie the cards together I used a piece of red elastic ribbon that I threaded a button onto it and then put both ends through the holes from front to back (so the button ends up on top of the cards). Then I took the two ends from the back and stretched them around to the front and tied them in a knot and a bow so it could fit around the button to hold the cards together.
I am really happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to send it him!
xo JC
I have an idea for a Valentine's to make lovie from our little guy. (It involves paint and very little, squirmy hands). So I will have to post that once I make it.
For this project I used:
- A Deck of Cards - you can use the jokers for the front and back cover, or if you don't have jokers you can double side two cards for the covers
- Hole Punch
- Homemade Modge Podge
- Paint Brush
- Index Cards - cut into thirds
- Red Sharpie
- 52 Reasons
- Red Elastic Ribbon
- Button
The first thing to do is to figure out how you want the cards punched, or not punched... some people decorate them then put the cards in a box. I did two punches about an inch apart in the middle of the cards. Then after the Index Cards are cut into thirds, they are ready to be pasted on. I used a paint brush to put a little bit of modge podge onto the card, put the index card on top, and put another layer of modge podge over the whole thing. Let them dry completely before writing on them, but once they are dry write away! Most other people do them typed, but I wanted to keep mine handwritten. When lovie is so far away a handwritten note is much better than something that is typed.
To tie the cards together I used a piece of red elastic ribbon that I threaded a button onto it and then put both ends through the holes from front to back (so the button ends up on top of the cards). Then I took the two ends from the back and stretched them around to the front and tied them in a knot and a bow so it could fit around the button to hold the cards together.
I am really happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to send it him!
xo JC
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