I have not been motivated lately. I did sign up for a Countdown to Valentine's Day swap, we were supposed to make half of the items.
Everything I chose to send:
I went with gems, lace, stickers, buttons, plastic hears, resin pieces and sequins for the things I didn't have to make.
What I did make:
foam monsters, after putting these in one bag, I felt they seemed childish, so added something else to the bag.
Embellishments:
I'm not good at making embellishments. For the square ones, I had these cut up, I added some round stickers and some ephemera plus a couple tiny wooden hearts. The tag I added a paper heart and a word sticker. The doily has a paper piece of ephemera and a chipboard piece on top. I felt it was a bit light with the two embellishments so I added the large heart stickers to the bag.
Rosettes:
I took some ready made rosettes and added to them. The top two are stickers with more stickers on top. The bottom ones have wooden hearts and some stickers on top.
Cards:
I'm not great at cards, either. I cute some 3x4 cards, layered some patterned paper, and then embellishments on top. The first two have embellishments I received in other swaps. The middle two are just paper and stickers. The last two I found some tags in my stash and added stickers to them.
Paperclips:
The cupcakes I had in my stash. The owls are stickers, the roses and cookies are resin pieces.
Notebooks:
I received a couple tiny heart shaped notebooks in a swap, they had sloths on the covers, so I took them off and created my own covers with stickers.
More notebooks:
I just added paper to the covers of a couple notebooks (you can tell if you look by the top). I added some ephemera I got in a swap, some ribbon and stickers.
Tassels:
These are what I added with the monsters. I raided my trim stash and found some white and red trim. I added some ric rac over the tie and resin pieces on top of that.
All the bags:
I stapled them shut with pink staples and then 'wrapped' most of them with trim and 1" circle punches for the numbers.
I also created some felt Valentine's from the Dollar Tree:
I love these kits, I never follow the picture, The cupcakes were supposed to smiley hearts on their sticks and the Love heart on top of the cupcake. The hearts are supposed to be holding the smiley hearts in their hands above their head, they are all supposed to have pom pom noses. I thought they looked better this way.
And the monsters:
Again, I rarely follow the picture. I did for the first set (sorta), except the purple monster is supposed to be wearing a ball cap. The ball cap was a sticker, but was supposed to be behind the monster's head. The pink monster at the top was supposed to be wearing red sunglasses, I did not like the look of those at all.
I really enjoy these craft kits, sadly, I don't see a lot of them. The felt ones were from the Dollar Tree, so were $1. The monsters were from Hobby Lobby, I think they were $4.99, not sure if they're really worth that price.
