While hunting for quick Valentines ideas, I saw a sewn Valentine craft on the Housing a Forest blog. They looked super cute, and Nora is quite comfortable with the sewing machine after taking classes from Crafty Stitches.
I had some handmade paper with that nice soft texture, so we started by cutting that into 3 inch x 3 inch squares. We also had a box of medium-sized red, orange and yellow hearts from when I decorated Nora & Russell’s bedroom doors for Valentines Day a few years ago.
I found some shiny wrapping paper and we started to cut out smaller hearts. But then Nora remembered how I had made my new Trashmagination business cards from a recycled map. We decided to cut all the small hearts from the map. Thank goodness Nana volunteered to help!
At first Nora thought she would write “Show me the way to your heart” on the Valentines, but that seemed a little emotional for class Valentines. So we kept making the cards, and she came up with “Follow Your Heart.” Both are such perfect sentiments but I especially LOVED Follow Your Heart.
With Nana and me helping with the cutting and sewing, we made more than 50 cards for all the sixth graders and teachers. Phew!
Russell went the easy route this year and used Valentines that we printed from an old Ranger Rick PDF and pasted on cardstock.