The Valentine Keepsake Box by Renae Clark

Valentine’s Day Keepsake Memory Box

This memory box is the perfect keepsake to hold your child’s Valentines’. It can also be given to a grade school girl or boy to keep their Valentine’s Day cards and gifts from their classmates and families. I made this box for my Goddaughter who is in 1st grade this year!
Here’s what you’ll need to complete this project:
Chipboard Cigar Box
Adhesive
Glue Dots
Pop Dots

Pencil
12 inch ruler
Corner rounder
Magnetic closure 
Moxxie Love Me Knots Paper (1 sheet)
Moxxie Hugs and Kisses Paper (1 sheet)
Moxxie Bliss Paper (1 sheet)
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee cardstock stickers
Moxxie Lovey Dovey rubons

Moxxie cardmaker rubons
1 yard pink ribbon (1 inch wide)
1 large white flower
1 Black Button and thread
Red alphabet stickers
Black & White cardstock scraps

Let’s get started:

To get started we will line the inside of the box with 2 pieces of patterned paper.
1. Cut 1 piece of “Love Me Knots” for the inside cover at 6 1/8 inches and 6 _ inches.
2. Cut 1 piece of “Hugs and Kisses” for the bottom inside at 6 x 6 inches
3. Adhere both pieces (some additional trimming may made be needed).

Covering the top of the box and sides.

1. Cut 1 piece of “Bliss” for the cover at 6 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches and adhere to top of box.
2. Cut 4 pieces of “Love Me Knots” at 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches and adhere to all sides of the box (some additional trimming may be needed)

Decorating the Cigar Box top:

1. Cut a 13 inch length of ribbon and place adhesive on the back side of the ribbon.
2. Wrap ribbon around the cover with open ends meeting on the top center (as shown in Picture 5).3. Cut 1 large white flower in half and adhere over the ribbon offsetting each flower (as shown in Picture 7).

4. Double mat large Love Notes sticker with black and white cardstock, round corners (as shown in Picture 6).5. Place pop dots on the back side and place on the box cover (as shown in Pictures 7 & 8).6. With remaining ribbon create a large bow. Using glue dots, adhere to box top (see Picture 9).7. Cut large coordinating heart from Lovey Dovey rubon set and adhere to white cardstock. Trim closely around heart with scissors (as shown in Picture 10).

8. To create title, place rubons and alphabet stickers on Love Notes sticker (as shown in Picture 11).

9. Adhere large heart rubon over the “Love Notes” words (as shown in Picture 12).

Creating magnetic closure

Trim a 1 1/2 inch strip of pink ribbon and place one end in between the cardstock and box top (as shown in Picture 13).

Using coordinating thread, hand sew the black button to the top of the ribbon (as shown in Picture 14)

Punch 1/2 inch circle from black cardstock and adhere negative magnet to ribbon and punched circle (as shown in Picture 15)

Place positive magnet on the inside of box. Position so that the magnets are close to one another when box is closed.

Give as a gift to your favorite grade school child!

Puppy Love by Sue Fields

Puppy Love Chipboard Album

Supply List:
How Do I Love Thee patterned papers, stickers, and rub-ons.
Xacto knife
Scissors
Chipboard album or 12x12 chipboard and template
Rolodex card for template
Black Acrylic paint
Paint brush
Ribbon
Adhesive
Corner RounderBrads
Felt Embellishments
Heart Punch
Alphabet stickers
Jump rings-1

Let’s get started.

The cover page of this album has 2 layers.

Step one is to use an Xacto knife to cut out the paper to fit on the chipboard album.
(Another option would be to trace around the album then use scissors to cut out the paper.)
Next cut out the paper to fit the heart that is the top layer of the cover.
Adhere the ribbon about 1/3 of the way from the top of the heart.

To make the title I used a rolodex card (or in this case mine was chipboard) as the base.
I cut out a piece of felt to cover all but the heart of the rolodex card.

Before adhering the felt, add the rub-on heart.
Now cut out a piece of white paper to adhere your title to.

Mine was about 3.5” x 1.5” After placing the left bracket on the cardstock, start adding your letter stickers, paying careful attention to the size of the letters so that the “love” rub-on can be added. I placed the largest letters on the ends and used smaller letters (about 1/2 the size) for the middle. Now add the “love” rub-on and then place the heart tag sticker over the “o” in love. Add the brad, trim off the ends around the brackets, and adhere to the felt.

I found that dry adhesive worked better than wet when adhering to the felt.

Finally, attach your rolodex card to the top layer of your cover page.

Page two also involves cutting out the patterned paper to fit the shape of the album.

The “Mad About You” paper was perfect for journaling.

The lines on this will make my hand-journaling much neater!

I added a small photo along with a tab sticker, used as an arrow, then added a label that spelled out “Max”.

The remaining pages were all painted with black acrylic paint.

Once those dry, you can finish the album rather quickly. 

NOTE – I adhered the photos then trimmed around the edges to match the shape of the album.

Page three uses a red photo corner sticker, two rub-ons, and a heart that was cut out of the “Bliss” paper. 

Adhere the sticker to the top right corner then apply the rub-on directly on top of the sticker and photo. 

Do the same with the heart rub-on then adhere the tiny cut out heart.

To make page four you will need to cut a strip measuring approximately 5 in long x 1/2 in wide from the “True Love” paper.

Adhere that over the top of the photo then adhere the “sweetheart” sticker vertically from the left end of the paper. 

I rounded the corners of the paper before adhering. 

Finally, cut out 3 more hearts from the “Bliss” paper and adhere.

Page five is super simple. 

Place the large “I Love You” circle sticker over the focal point of the photo, trim edges then add felt embellishments.

The next photo I matted using the “Mad About You” paper.

After adding a punched heart, I added the puppy’s name with alphabet stickers and underlined it with an arrow rub-on.

The finishing touches were two felt hearts.

Page six is another simple page.

Tuck the left corner of the photo underneath the dotted circle sticker while the rest of the photo stays on top. 

Adhere the photo corner then add a punched heart. 

Although I used a chipboard heart that I covered with patterned paper.

The back page uses “Mad About You” paper.

I followed the curves of the hearts with my scissors and ended up with a pretty wave.

Adhere to the back page and you could add a rub-on or two if you wanted.

Add a jump ring and ribbons and voila, you have completed an album!

Candy Canister by Elizabeth Carney

Valentine Canister Jar

Materials used:
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Lucky in Love - Reverse papers
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Love Me Knots papers
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee LV #2 Cardstock Sticker collection

Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Hugs & Kisses - Reverse papers
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Hugs & Kisses papers
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Lovey Dovey Rub-On
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee True Love - Reverse papers
Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Hugs & Kisses papers
Machine stitching
Zig black writer
Colored Buttons
Black Sharpie
Ruler
PencilScrapbooking sticky tape
Canister was bought at a thrift store for .49. These canisters can be bought anywhere
Pop dots
Coluzzle heart template
Coluzzle swivel knife
Black cardstock

Ribbon
Step 1:

Use a piece of 12x12 cardstock {Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Lucky In Love Reverse papers} for the strip to go around the lid.  This will be cut using scissors 2 inches wide and 12 inches long. 

You will also need a smaller piece of this to finish the back, as the strip is not long enough to cover entire lid. This smaller size will be 2 inches.

Using a 1 inch paintbrush and Modge Podge, you will adhere this onto the lid. 

First cover the lid and place the strip onto the lid, and then use Modge Podge to cover the paper strip itself to assure adhering.

Allow that to dry for 5 minutes.

After the strip has dried, you can add the ribbon. 

You will need scrapbooking sticky tape to stick this down and also the ribbon size should be 1/2 yard. You can use any type of ribbon you wish. 

Adhere using scrapbooking sticky tape.

Next you will move to the actual top of lid.

Using a 1  inch paintbrush and Modge Podge you will adhere this onto the lid. 

First cover the lid using the Modge Podge and then with the Moxxie How Do I Love Thee cardstock stickers. 

Make sure that you Modge Podge both front and back of stickers to ensure adhering.

Allow drying for 5 minutes.

Next you will cut with scissors out of one part of the Moxxie How Do I Love The Love Me Knots papers and set aside.Cutting with scissors another smaller sized ribbon {approx. 3 inches} to embellish. 

Adhere the ribbon first using scrapbooking sticky tape.

Then you can add the cut Moxxie How Do I Love The Love Me Knots papers {should look like a flower from cut}. 

Adhere this flower on by using pop dots to make it stick up.

Now that the lid is complete, you can set this aside to dry any further if needed.

Canister itself:Cut using scissors out 10 strips of paper using Moxxie How Do I Love Thee line {you can choose which papers you would like to use for these strips}. 

These strips will need to be in the size of 10 inches long by 2 inches wide. I had you cut 10 in case you needed more, but we should use less.

After the strips are cut, you will begin placing them onto the actual canister one at a time.Using your 1 inch paintbrush you will adhere using Modge Podge to the canister as well as each strip of paper. This will ensure it sticking to canister.

Go around the entire canister and cover.

After you have covered the entire canister allow drying for 10 minutes to ensure that it has had enough time to dry.

While that is drying, you can create the heart to place on the front of the canister for the embellishment.

Take your Coluzzle swivel knife and Coluzzle heart template and create a heart {the biggest heart on the template} in black cardstock.

Next use your Coluzzle swivel knife and your Coluzzle heart template and create a heart {the next one down from the biggest heart size} out of Moxxie How Do I Love Thee True Love reverse papers. 

Adhere using scrapbooking sticky tape to the back of the black cardstock papers.

Then taking your Coluzzle swivel knife and your Coluzzle heart template, create a heart {the middle sized one} out of Moxxie How Do I Love Thee Hugs and Kisses papers. 

Adhere using scrapbooking sticky tape to the upper left side of the bigger hearts.

After you have created all of these hearts, use the Moxxie How Do I Love Thee rubons and place a heart of your choice onto white cardstock paper. 

Adhere to the upper left hand corner of the hearts with scrapbooking sticky tape.

Next, place the Moxxie How Do I Love Thee cardstock stickers {xoxo and smooch} onto the smaller black heart with a brad.

Take the Moxxie chipboard and using the Moxxie How Do I Love Thee cardstock stickers {sweetheart} stick onto the right hand side of the Moxxie How Do I Love Thee True Love reverse papers.

Once you have completed all of this, using your 1 inch paintbrush, place Modge Podge over the entire heart and embellishments to create a lasting effect.

Allow this to dry for 10 minutes due to thickness.

Once this is dry you can adhere the heart onto the front of the canister with scrapbooking sticky tape.

You will lastly punch a hole in the side of the canister to run the ribbon through.  

Tie a knot in one end of the ribbon, pull through the hole. 

Pull the ribbon through the opposite hole to the inside of the canister and knot in place.

Fill the canister with candy or a bottle of bubbly and share with your favorite sweetheart!

Valentine Wreath by Janet Ball!

Supply List:

1- 12x12 piece of chipboard

How Do I Love Thee collection of papers and rub-ons

Ribbon

Pink Paint to match paper

Transparency 12x12 sheet

Adhesive

Scissors

Marker

Step 1: Cut a heart out of chipboard. 

Cut a smaller one in the center. I used my cricut and the George font/shape cart. 

The outside heart is fit to 12x12 and the inside heart is 7.25”. 

Paint the chipboard pink…just in case there is any show through of the hearts.  Allow to dry for about 10 minutes.

Adhere a transparency to the back with adhesive and trim around the outside of the heart and punch a hole in the top of the heart for ribbon. 

Step 2: Cut out 1.5” hearts from different How Do I Love Thee papers. 

You can punch, die cut, or hand cut. I used the cricut and the George font/shape cart for mine. 

You will need to cut out about 20 from 5 different double-sided papers for a total of 100. 

Fold the hearts in half to add more dimension and adhere from the center of the heart and around. I randomly selected the hearts and mixed up the patterned papers. 

Step 3: Cut out embellishment rub-ons for center of heart. I used the heart, arrow, and words "Happy Valentines Day."

Place one at a time and rub-on to the center of the transparency. 

I cut the arrow in half to look like it is going through the heart. I rubbed on the arrow part, then the heart, and then the feather end. 

I used a sharpie to make an “entrance” into the heart.

Step 4: Add ribbon and hang! Way too fun!