Monday’s | DIY Valentine Cards (with matches??)

As I was reading this month’s issue of Real Simple magazine my brown eyes turned into red hearts as I spotted their inspiration page article called  ”4 New Uses For Old Things – Valentine’s Edition”! DIY times … time to roll up my sleeves and and give this DIY card making a try using items that I already had in my home … matches … puzzle pieces … and birthday candles.  Here’s the tear sheets of the magazine page and my DIY’s cards … (don’tcha love when ideas get you so excited to DIY!)

Above is a peek at 2 of the cards! Aren’t they adorable?

First the PUZZLE pieces – I could had painted / colored the puzzle pieces, but I decided to …

use the red spray paint I already had ….

I am not a fan of my penmanship (working on improving it!!!), so I opened up Microsoft Word doc and selected a FONT that I loved …. then added carbon copy under the paper (and over the poster card) so it could easily transfer to the card  …

I’m basically using it as a template …

So I could then go over the outlined font using a pretty red pencil. Whatchathink of the card?  Here’s what I used for EACH card …

(1) used my biz note cards as a SIZE TEMPLATE, outlining it with a pencil onto a white poster board –>  (2) cut the outline (snip snip snip), –> (3) attached magnetic strip to the back (because I want them to go on the fridge), and –> (4) for the 3D old items I used putty adhesive to attach them to the card (which is muuuuuch more manageable than glue!).

Here’s the CANDLE (YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE) CARD – putty poooower …

I hand drew hearts and added the words with another font that I love called Yummy Cakes.

Whatchathink of it? 

Lastly, I zoomed to our kitchen cabinet and yeeeeeah .. I did have matches … I thought it was adorable that there really where JUST 2 matches on it (aww, meant to be, right!). This was the easiest to make … write the message on the matches ….

which I did in PENCIL first to make sure I liked the spacing between letters, then went over it with a red pen. Whatchathink of this Valentine’s card? ….

I intentionally didn’t want to write Happy Valentine’s on the card so we can display it on non v-days. For hey, every day should be filled with love!