Pinterest is saturated with little Valentine ideas. In fact, its pretty hysterical that all these preschoolers across the nation have these super fancy, creative valentines when really what they really want is Toy Story or Barbie ones with a box of candy hearts. Maybe next year, but for now I decided to join in with the other Pintermoms (I just made that up) and make some fun creative cards for Landon's classmates.
I decided on the scratch it valentines. It was SO easy (like, seriously if you are an actual friend of mine, not just a reader, just know you will be getting some form of scratch it gift for your birthday.)
Here are my 'pretending to be a How To blogger' photos.
(***I totally don't want to be stealing someone's idea but I cant figure out how to link the Pin here. If you go to my Pinterest its on there. I promise)
How To:
*Design/print your scratch it
*Mount onto cardstock
*Cover with some form of sticky plastic (the tutorial said contact paper, but I didnt have any so I used packing tape. Worked great.)
*Mix 2 parts metallic acrylic paint with 1 part dish soap.
*Paint over scratch it section. (you could probably be a little neater with your paint but Im so not a perfectionist I didnt take the time. And, it was for kids.)
*Let dry...and scratch away!
Here are Landon's
He signed the back of ALL 24 of them! And, we added a penny to the baggy so they could scratch them.
Action shot (ignore my nail polish)
Ooooo so close.... (teehee)
Voila!
I also made a few little scratch its for the Mr. with the left over paint.
1 comment:
Cute! I think the leftover scratch-it's for the Mr. are a great idea! I think I'll have to do something similar for when Jeff goes on extended hunting trips! How fun would that be to scratch off a little love note/message each day!
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