Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! It’s snowing like crazy here and I had the urge to make something pretty and spring-ish. I came across this sweet little bundle of flowers in a drawer the other day.

The flowers were given to me by my daughter for Mother’s Day several years ago, along with a box of Godiva chocolates and a funny card. She was a senior in high school and we were going though a rough patch as she got ready to head off to college. When I see the flowers now, it makes me grateful for my three daughters. I love watching them pursuing their dreams and goals and am so proud of them.

To make this cheery wall hanging, I started with the ScoreBoard Notebook Pocket die, the Big Shot and 6″ x 13″ piece of matboard. I ran the die and matboard through the die cut machine (Big Shot). I folded the box up and used strong double sided tape to hold it together along the back tabs. The cool shimmery pink finish is a metallic adhesive sheet by JEJE Produkts which is cut to the width of the box. The pattern on the top was punched out using a Martha Stewart border punch. I peeled the adhesive backing off and lined it up evenly on the front and pressed it down and around to the back of the box. After arranging the flowers, I looped the pretty ribbon through the brad holes in the back to use as a handle and wrapped and tied the ends around to the front.

Check the Sizzix blog for another project using my fun ScoreBoard dies. Hope your Valentine’s Day is LOVEly!