DIY Valentine's Day Card Locket Necklace

This necklace is new to my shop, and perfect for Valentine's Day. A miniature envelope locket holds a miniature Valentine's Day card. I designed the card on PicMonkey. The lovely envelope locket is available at Wholeport. 

Materials:

1 envelope locket

16 inches of chain (I used red for Valentine's Day)

Light Weight Card stock 

Clear Packing Tape

Jump Loops

Clasp

1 "made with love" heart lock and key charm (optional)

Directions:

Make a Valentine card. You may personalize it as much as you like. You can make one by hand or design it on PicMonkey, like I did. My card reads "I am leaving my heart with you". There are thousands of free printable Valentine's day cards on the web too. The important thing to remember is you will need to shrink the card down, to fit in your envelope locket, approximately 18x12mm. I chose to use packaging tape to laminate the outside only of my card. This way the front of card will be protected, but the inside may still be signed and dated, to further personalize it. 

Use your jewelry pliers and jump loops to connect your envelope, chain, and clasp. I also attached a "made with love" heart and key lock charm near the clasp. 

Not feeling very crafty, head to my shop TLC Creations, to purchase this necklace instead. My shop recently got a face lift, I would love for you to check it out. 

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Homemade "I DIG U" Valentines

We just finished making Joshua's Valentines for his class.  We made Vanilla Almond Bark covered spoons or should I say shovels, and sprinkled them with red sugar crystals. White chocolate would work just as well. We used return address labels to write our "I Dig U" Valentine wishes. 

Picture Valentines Cards

    I saw this cute idea for Children's Valentines Cards, on another cool blog I follow, called
Marni's Organized Mess.  http://marnisorganizedmess.blogspot.com/2011/02/be-my-valentine.html

I decided that we would try these out this year for my oldest son Joshua (pictured above).  I loved that his name would be printed on the card so that we wouldn't be frantically signing them all at the last minute, like in previous years.  Ours are not as cool as Marni's, since we did not print them on photo paper or punch holes for the suckers. We just taped the suckers on, since we printed them on regular copy paper and it wasn't as durable. I designed the picture on the Picnik site, which is free to do. Then to dress it up a bit we taped them on to paper lace doilies.  Doilies, oh how I remember being little and loving Valentine crafting with doilies.  Well it wasn't until we had them all printed out, that I realized the top of the frame around Joshua was cut off for some reason.  That is where it read  "Happy Valentines Day! " Oh well, they will work, and if they were any cuter, I would just be sad to imagine other parents throwing them in the trash.  I am not judging, I do the same thing, you can't keep everything, there is just not room.  I have to remind Joshua of this often.  I usually let him have them for a month.  Then after my son has scattered all of his received Valentines around his room, and I just can't take the mess anymore, I convince him to part with them.  Of course if there is one in particular, that he is especially fond of, I will let him keep it.  Oh puppy love.  I remember those days too.  I remember reading the Valentine hearts put  in with my cards and wondering if they were just tossed in or picked special for me.  Probably just tossed in, but one could always dream.
If you have not picked out your kids cards yet, give these a try. They were super easy to do.  Of course if you do, please send me a link to the pic in a comment below, I would love to see yours.  Happy Valentines Weekend everyone!  No school for Joshua or work for Jerry, so yes it is officially my weekend!