Love Week: Valentine Crackers

Welcome to day 2 of our LOVE themed week here at the Pink Paislee blog!

This is Danielle with a quick and inexpensive gift for classmates, teachers, friends and neighbors for Valentine’s Day. These Valentine Crackers are so easy to make that my 6 year old is actually making them for her class herself in a simpler version. A bonus to this project is that you get to recycle at the same time!

First, collect some empty paper towel tubes. You can make two of these candy holders out of a paper towel tube by cutting it in half.

Cover the empty cardboard tubes with a paper of your choice. I’ve used 2 of the new Spring Jubilee papers on mine. Fill the tubes with candy.

Now we get to decorate! I’ve tucked in some doilies and tissue paper on the ends. Adhere them along the inside edge with glue dots or repositionable adhesive that would make the tissue easy to take out, so the recipient can remove the candy.

You can hang little punched hearts to add the name of the recipient to the Valentine cracker with twine. You can also decorate these tubes with Vintage Vogue die cuts. There are a lot of cute “love” die cuts in that line! On the dark pink cracker, I added some Vintage Vogue ribbon and hot glued onto the edges.

To make the ruffled ribbon, I machine stitched along the edge and then pulled on the string to start gathering the ribbon. Keep pulling the string and gathering until you get the desired look.

Now hot glue the ruffles onto the ends. Insert tissue paper and decorate the tops!

You can make these as simple or as extravagant as you’d like. A bowl of these on the counter would be a pretty decoration as well!

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check back each day this week for more Valentine/love project and layout ideas.

Danielle

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Supplies used:

NEW Spring Jubilee papers (Party and Celebration), Nantucket papers (Crab Cakes) by Pink Paislee

Vintage Vogue Ephemera (die cuts) by Pink Paislee

Soiree twine by Pink Paislee

Soiree flags by Pink Paislee

Other: doilies and tissue paper from craft supply store, cardstock for punched hearts, heart punch by McGill, hot glue gun, assorted candy.