I love the 3-D heart purse, it is so easy because it cuts as one piece out of a standard sheet of cardstock. It is also quick to print and cut if you do not have a die cut machine

I think this library pocket would be cute filled with pencils for a teacher or even as a journaling pocket on a scrapbook page! Also I included a pencil topper so if you don’t want to give out candy you can still give something sweet!

The conversation heart box covers are awesome! These are inspired by an iPod valentine I saw in the magazine Family Fun. I thought how about a calculator and a cell phone too! The really cool thing is you can cut several of these designs out of a few different colors of cardstock and mix & match the buttons and dials. These designs will import in SCAL the exact size of a box of convo-hearts (sweethearts brand) so there is no need to resize anything;) There is no wasted paper and the kids can use white glue to glue the pieces straight to a box of convo-hearts! Easy, inexpensive and the kids can do it themselves. You can le them write their own “texts” in the window and you can still use the to/from spot on the back of the convo heart box.

I also included a plain box in case you wanted to used the covers but fill with your own goodies or even a mini coloring book and crayons!

I hope this gives you some fun ideas to use this valentine’s day! Here is a look at the Valentine’s Galore kit:

Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!

Make a bookplate template, and you can use it again and again.  Books make wonderful gifts for teachers, birthdays, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.  Adding a personalized touch always makes a gift more special.

I created a template using Chic Deco Frames & Stamps by Mujka Design Inc along with Free Digital Stamps Vases and Flowers by Cocoa Studio.

Step 1: I chose one of the elegant frames and opened it in Adobe Photoshop CS.  Next, I resized it to 3.5 inches x 3.5 inches, which will work well with a book cover.

Step 2: I chose one of the flowers in the free flower stamps set and added color to it.  I chose pink and green to color.  Item 1 in this picture shows the colors I chose.  Item 2 is the magic wand tool that I used to select the area to color.  Item 3 is the paint bucket tool, that I used for each color, to fill in the selected area with color.

Step3: I dropped the flower graphic onto the book plate frame. Then resized the graphic and rotated it to fit in the corner. Take a look at the graphic. I had both items open in Photoshop.  Then I dragged the flower onto the frame.  Once it was there, it was a little too big, so I used CTRL-T to size it down and then rotated it to be the angle that I wanted for the corner.  From there, I just moved it to the corner.

Step 4: Since my flower was the right size for the frame, I wanted to duplicate it and use it in the other corner of the frame.  To do this, I went to the layers section, right clicked on the layer I wanted to duplicate, pressed the right-click button on my mouse and chose the “duplicate layer” option.  Again, I dragged the flower to the corner and used CTRL-T to rotate the flower until I had it the way I wanted it.

From there I had my completed template.  I saved it with a file name I’ll recognize next time I need to personalize a book for someone.  If you look at the first graphic above, you can see that I filled the text into the template to dedicate some books to our elementary school to honor a fabulous teacher who is moving out of state at the end of the school year.  She loved them!

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