Valentine's Paper Chain

Only a couple weeks left to whip up some custom Valentine's Decorations. On a recent trip to a local ice cream parlor my family and I popped into the photo booth and I had an epiphany. All I needed was a trip to the hardware store and I was ready to get crafty.


SUPPLIES
Photo booth Pictures
Scissors
Paint Samples
Acid Free Aleene's Tacky Glue
Scanner
Printer
Photo Quality Printer Paper
Clothes Pins


Lucky for me and this project Chris and I have been taking and collecting photo booth pictures for quite sometime. This was not even Tallulah's first time in the photo booth. I didn't want to use my originals so I scanned them all in, printed them out on photo paper and cut them out.

Paint samples are already the right size. I opted for all pink and red colors to go with my Valentines theme.


Just like you made paper chain banners in kindergarten this is the same method. Alternate paint and photo strips. I used Acid Free Tacky Glue and clothes pins to hold each loop together. One word of warning, make sure all you picture loops are facing the same way.


You can make your chain as long or as short as you like. Mostly it depends on how many pictures and paint samples you have. Once the chain is complete hang up, display and love is in the air.


Check out more I Love to Create paper banner projects like Rainbow Paper Chains and aBlack Cat Banner.

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Crafty Cupcake Dress Up

Materials List

• Tulip® Fashion Glitter™
  
  

  23554 Red Fine Jewel

• Aleene's® Paper Glaze
  
  
• Tulip® Multi-Surface Stencils™
  
  

  Hearts

• Aleene's® Original Tacky Glue Sticks
  
  

• Miscellaneous

  •   Tape
  •   Pencil
  •   Decorative edge scissors
  •   (2) Bamboo skewers
  •   Scissors
  •   Scrapbook paper – damask printed, chocolate brown, linen 

  Instructions

  1. For the cupcake sleeve, cut a band of damask printed scrapbook paper 2¼” high and 17” long. Glue two pieces together if needed, using Glue Stick. Fan-fold the paper into ¼” folds. Glue the ends together.
  2. For the cupcake poke, cut a rectangle of damask printed scrapbook paper 2¾” high and 3¼” wide to create the base piece.
  3. Cut a rectangle of chocolate brown scrapbook paper 2½” high and 3” wide, using decorative edge scissors. Glue to the center of the base piece.
  4. Peel the backing from Heart Stencil. Press the sticky stencil on the table and pull up several times to decrease the stickiness.
  5. Press the stencil on the linen colored scrapbook paper and trace the large heart with a pencil. Pull away stencil and cut out the heart. Glue the heart to the center of the base piece.
  6. Press the stencil on the linen colored heart with the heart swish in the corner. Apply Paper Glaze in the stencil and lift the stencil straight up to reveal the glue image.
  7. Pour Glitter over the glue. After a few minutes, tap the excess glitter onto a sheet of paper. Let dry.
  8. Apply Paper Glaze to the edges of the cupcake poke. Pour more glitter onto the sheet of paper. Dip the glazed edges into glitter, tap off the excess and pour back into the glitter bottle. Let dry.
  9. Attach a bamboo skewer to the back with tape.
  10. Place your fancy cupcake into the sleeve, and insert your cupcake poke into the top to complete your Cupcake Dress-up!
  

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Wood and Rock Candle Holder

This project really shows the strength and versatility of Aleene’s® Platinum Bond™ 7800 All-Purpose Adhesive™. It holds difficult items together such as wood, rocks, twine and ceramic pieces in no time and with strength you can trust, after all, it’s Aleene’s.

Materials List

• Aleene's® Platinum Bond 7800® All-Purpose Adhesive
  
  

• Miscellaneous

  •   Masking tape, low tack
  •   Pebbles: medium and small
  •   Tree branch, about 7” length
  •   Paper towels
  •   Plate
  •   Votive holder and candle
  •   Toothpicks or craft sticks
  •   Bowl
  •   Rocks, large flat about 3” across
  •   Natural twine
  •   Scissors 
  
  

  Instructions

• Working in small sections at a time, squeeze a small amount of 7800 Adhesive into center of bowl, using tip of tube to smooth. Press pebbles into glue adjusting for closest fit. Continue gluing on pebbles to fill in
• Glue medium pebbles along rim of plate by adding a dot of glue and pressing pebble into place. If necessary, hold in place with small pieces of tape till dry.
• Glue two flat rocks in center of plate holding in place with tape, if needed. Let dry. Glue next layers of rocks in place taping to secure. Once dry, glue remaining rocks to desired height, letting dry between each.
• For a cushion between bowl and rock, wrap several yards of twine around bottle or glass that is about 2” across. Wrap till about ½” thick. Carefully remove from bottle. Cut end. Wrap another piece of twine around circle knotting ends to secure. Apply 7800 Adhesive along one side of circle then press in place on bottom of bowl. Let dry.
• Position bowl in place on rock then add adhesive to inside rim of circle. Press in place on rock adjusting as needed to be level. A damp paper towel can be used to remove any wet glue if needed. Let dry.
• Cut branch to desired length trimming ends as flat as possible to sit flat. Place plate in place then add toothpicks or small pieces of craft sticks if needed so plate will be level on branch. Glue pieces in place. When dry add glue to branch then position plate in place. Let dry.
• Add votive to center of bowl.
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