This Years Valentines

 

We took a break from valentine’s last year as Kinley was not involved in any thing in which she could exchange valentines.  Surprisingly, I had a bit of a hard time finding something that we loved this year that we haven’t done before.  We did 2 sets this year.  One for her travel softball team, and one for her class.  I will explain both here.

 

For softball, I had the idea that I would try my hand at making scrunchies.  I mean, you can learn anything on You-tube, right??  Unfortunately, I could not find any softball themed material to do this so off to Amazon I went.

 

For this template, I went to Etsy and bought it.  I could have made something similar, but this person created the idea, so I am all about supporting it.  I used my Cricut print and cut feature for these.  The one downside was that I only had one trip to Walmart to buy cardstock in time and it was much thinner than I liked, and I felt too thin to withstand the scrunchie on it.  So, I flipped the image in Cricut design space and made it a solid color.  So, for each valentine, there were 2 print and cut items and we glued them together.  Totally my fault for not being prepared with the right items.  It would have cut our time in half.  What do you think of these?

 

The valentines for the class also were made using the print and cut option and the design was bought off Pinterest.  I was satisfied with the thickness of the cardstock for this project.  The only downfall we had on these was there wasn’t much room to write who they were to or from.  She could have used the back of them I suppose.  The valentine design was created to hold a sucker/pencil etc.  We did use suckers, but Kinley is very into making bracelets with the tiny rubber bands.  She decided to make one for each of the 28 students in her class.  Very ambitious of her!  To attach them, I had to unhook the s-clip and thread it through.  I truly hope her classmates enjoy these cute valentines.