Oh Be My Valentine Tutorial

We make these every year.

I guess it's a 'love'ly tradition.

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Fun to make; great project for kids for

Valentine's or Mother's Day. Fun party favor.

You can do any shape, any theme, any color.

Sweet to give & easy to mail.

Supplies

-Scalloped scissors
-Vellum sheets
-Hole Punch 1/16" or 1/8"
-24 inches of 1/8" ribbon
-Pencil
-Scrapbook paper
-Needle w/ large eye (embroidery)
-Flat candy: m&m's, red hots, or skittles

Lightly trace or draw a heart.

Write your message on the back of the scrapbook paper.

Place the vellum under the scrapbook paper.

With both pieces together,

cut about about 3/8" away from the line around the heart.

Where the heart dips, just do the best you can,

it doesn't have to go down that much.

Then punch holes on the line through both layers.
About 1/4" apart.

Erase the pencil line.

Thread your needle with the ribbon.
Leave about a 4" tail on top.
And sew.

Stop about here, put your finger in, to make a little room.

Put the m&m's in.
It holds about 17.
Sew up the opening.

Since I have vinyl for the zippered bag (which I'm going to start any minute now),

I thought I'd try a heart with it. I like it.

Not as easy as the vellum, but cute.

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