More Valentine pillowboxes.

So last week I shared with you the Valentine pillowboxes that I made for my son's class. Today I'm sharing with you the ones I made for my daughter's class. I had to make 2 things for each class - one was the Valentines that the kids were handing out to their classmates and then these pillowboxes are what I am taking to the party to hand out. A lot of work, but my kids really love that I do all this for them, and seeing their proud & happy lil' faces when they are handing things out at school makes it all worth it.

So again I am using these great acetate pillowboxes that I picked up from Embellish It Online. I actually think they are out of these right now, but you can always e-mail Miss Barb and ask her when they'll be back in stock, or to let you know or something like that.

I started out by punching some hearts out of this great Pink Paislee paper. I went wild when Lindsey at Jacksonbelle Embellishments got this in stock back in December and I bought tons of the single sheets, the brads and the glittered chipboard letters. I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but I had to have all of it that I could get my hands on.

I wanted to add a little extra something to the heart, so I did a quick zig-zag stitch on each one...one by one...

After I was finished stitching, I had this cute little pile of hearts....with thread hanging from each side. I thought about just leaving them as-is, but thought it might look too sloppy.

So I trimmed them all nice and clean with my handy-dandy Martha Stewart scissors. I have 2 of these that I picked up at Michael's with the coupon - I love these scissors. I use one pair for dry cutting and the other pair if there is the potential to get glue on it - one is all gunky and ugly and the other is still so pretty.

Then I got my piles all set to work a little assembly line.

Here's the treat box before embellishing: a Valentine notepad, a little heart bracelet (kindergarten is probably the last time a little boy would wear one of these), some plastic heart confetti - all from Oriental Trading - and some SweetTarts...yes, the Halloween SweetTarts that I got in the big bag for 40-cents *wink*

I tied a piece of crochet thread around the patterned paper - I use my crochet thread for everything....especially to thread my buttons. And then I stuck the chipboard letter to the heart and then added some dimensional adhesive to the back of the heart. A note on self-adhesive things like chipboard: I add a little bit of Tombow Mono Multi every time I use chipboard, just for a little insurance. I have a card in the current issue of CARDs magazine and I used some self-adhesive chipboard letters on it. When I saw the card in the magazine I thought something looked different. So I compared it to the picture that I had submitted and sure enough, the letters were way different - they must have fallen off between my house, mailing and then the photographer's handling. I have to admit - I like the way they have the letters better - LOL

I was going to do them all with the black chipboard letters, but just my luck, there were 5 C names in the class and even though I had 2 packs of the letters, there were only 4 Cs total. So I did about half and half - can't have just one kid with a different colored letter, you know.

We've got about a week and a half left, girls.

There's still time to make a little something for them (or for you) to hand out.

Have a sweet day!