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Free Printable Valentine Party Circles: The Cupid Collection

Tammy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:53:43 +0000

Good morning!! Can you believe it’s February?? This year is already flying by!! :0 To celebrate the launch of The Sandbucket I am giving away a free printable for the 2 inch party circles featured in my article. You can head on over to My Fabulous Fete to download them…

Have a great day!
tammy

Valentine Free Printable: O-fish-ally be mine tags

Tammy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:41:23 +0000

Ok, here they are as promised!! I hope these make it easy for you to create! You can either use a 1.5 inch circle punch, or cut them out by hand. I would suggest printing them on a heavier weight cardstock. I just finished this years edition of Andy’s valentines and I can’t wait to share!! Stay tuned!!

You can download it here:

If you need the frosted pillow boxes to create these valentines I am now offering a limited number of them here in quantities of 10 I will be receiving my shipment by mid-late next week and will ship them out to you as soon as they arrive in plenty of time to create your valentines.
BOXES ARE NOW SOLD OUT

Have a great day!
tammy

Free Download: St. Patrick’s Day Subway Art

Tammy — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:43:54 +0000

Happy March 1st! This year is FLYING by! It feels like I was just celebrating New Year’s and here it is March already. Where does the time go?? Let’s go ahead and kick off your St. Patty’s day decorating with a new version of subway art…what do you say?? If you’re one of the 300 or so people that printed the valentine’s subway art, then you can slip this one in the same frame and your decorating is done!

Here’s the link to download the file.

St. Patrick’s Day Subway Art Printable

It’s sized as a 16×20…great deal for 5.99 printing at costco!!

Have a great day!

-t

make this: homemade valentines

Tammy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:56:39 +0000

I’ll admit it…I LOVE valentine’s day. Not so much for the mushy romantic stuff, mor for the fun, cute stuff. It gives me a great excuse to make all kinds of cute, kinda cheesy stuff that you can get away with on a day like this.

This year my valentines have taken on a beach theme. I didn’t really plan it, I was just working around things that I had around the house. I’m fortunate in that both of my kids are at small schools with teeny classes…so I can make slightly more elaborate things without breaking the bank. I definitely wouldn’t be doing these things for a class of 35, but they are fun for the special valentines your kids may have. The other thing I love about these is that they are both great for boys. Girls are easy, because they can give things that are in primary colors and nobody thnks anything of it, but boys are hard. So much of the valentine’s stuff out there is pink and purple and mushy. I’m happy to say these are BOTH great for the little guys (and gals) in your life.

i dig u

i hit the dollar bins at michaels and found some cute shovels to make these with. Here’s what you’ll need:

-inexpensive shovels

-small clear bags of some sort

-candy(i bought cady that had wrappers that were in primary colors so they would match my shovels…something to think about. it’s a sickness…I know. )

-ribbon

-cut out heart shapes (an extra large heart punch or die cut machine of some sort works great for these!)

-alphabet stamps (or you can print on the paper with your computer before you punch out the hearts)

-a hole punch

-scissors

-tape

1. put you candy in the bags and seal. punch two holes at the top of the bag about an inch or so apart.

2. string ribbon through hole on the right

3. place candy bag in your shovel and wrap the ribbon around the back of the shovel handle.

4. pull ribbon from behind shovel handle through the hole on the left hand side ofthe candy bag to bring the ribbon together in the front so you can tie a bow.

5. cut out your hearts and stamp with “i dig u”

6. tape hearts to front of candy bag

7. hand out and enjoy!

have a ball, valentine

supplies:

-beach balls

-tags

-ribbon

-string (i used embroidery thread)

-tape

-hole punch

these are super easy! i found my beach balls at walmart for 77 cents each. my ribbon is from a giant spool at costco and the tags I made in about 5 minutes in photoshop…good news…here’s a free download of the tags for your own use!

Have a Ball

1. take beach balls out of their package and roll up. tape into place.

2. tie ribbon around balls

3. cut out your tags and punch a hole in the top

3. use the string to tie your tags around the knot in the bow to secure them to the balls.

done!

Hope you have a happy valentine’s day!!

-t

make this: cute boy valentines–free pattern download

Tammy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:56:40 +0000

I really wanted to MAKE valentines this year for Andy’s class. I wanted to last year, but with 35 kids in the class I thought FORGET IT!! This year there is a MUCH more manageable number so I thought I’d give it a whirl. Boy valentines are HARD!! I came up with a million fun girly pink and red ideas. For boys…not so much! I finally came up with something I think will suffice. I was happy when Andy walked in and saw them sitting on the counter and said “cool, mom! Rockets!” That made it TOTALLY worth it!
I simply drew out the idea on a sheet of paper, then cut the individual pieces out of some paper I’ve had lying around for ages that I still love.

They each measure about 4×6

For the back I printed out the message on a white sheet of cardstock. I used the free skater dude font from this si  te.

glued it all together, stuck a sucker on it and called it a day!
They aren’t anything fancy, but if you’re in a bind and want to make some yourself, you can Download the Rocket Pattern that I made for you.
Have a great day!
-t