Valentine's Day Archives

Have you seen this super cute Valentine’s Day printable designed by Aly over at Entire Eventful?

Love, love the chalk board goodness.

Well Aly asked a few of us bloggers to put our own spin on her fun design—a sort of “One Printable, Five Ways” type of thing.

And because I’m a Silhouette nerd, I had all kinds of fun making a free cutting file to use for clothing or vinyl.

A few minutes later I busted out the heat transfer vinyl and jazzed up an old black shirt just in time for kid #3 to wear for her class party.

This would be so cute on pillows, a tote bag, or homemade valentines.

If you’d like the Silhouette file, you can download it HERE for personal use.

I’d love to see what you make!

Post it on Thrive’s Facebook page or tag me on twitter.

Have fun getting ready for Valentine’s Day!

P.S. –

You can download the “Bee Mine” printable and check out the other projects in this series below:

Lacy Bee Mine Frame: Organize and Decorate Everything

Here’s the latest entry in the unofficial please-help-me-figure-out-what-the-heck-to-put-on-my-door quest.

And for the record, I’m really into the simple, fast projects as of late and this was no different.

I think the start to finish was under thirty minutes with minimal mess.

Want to make your own?

For this project you’ll need:

See? I told you this was simple.

And always I hope you Rock What Ya Got and come up with your own version using whatever you have on hand.

Snip off the heavily curved/bent ends of the hanger and shape it into a primitive heart …

… securing the ends with a few pieces of tape.

You’ll need one hanger for each heart you plan on making.

Then wrap heart (or hearts) with either rag ribbon made from old t-shirts or yarn.

(Need help making your own t-shirt yarn? Check out this awesome tutorial here.)

Connect hearts with a little hot glue …

… and hang with some jute, ribbon, yarn, or whatever you have lying around.

There you go: easy, simple, DONE.

And while I don’t mind the simple, un-fussy look of just the hearts, I’m thinking a little vinyl could punch the look up just a bit.

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