Valentines Day box

I was so excited to help my son work on his Valentine's day box for school this year! Since my husband has been in the Army, that meant not being around for all of the holidays. I found a picture on Pinterest to show my son. He loved the idea and of course we had to make it!

Here are the boxes that we used for this project. Other supplies were scissors, glue, tape, 2 (12x12) black scrapbook paper, 2 (12x12) purple scrapbook paper, 1 wine cork cut into 4 round pieces, and 1 white paint pen.

 

I didn't take pictures of all the steps since I was a little busy helping my son at the time.

I did take one of him helping out though.

 

 

You can see how we cut the cereal box on the long side. We pasted the purple paper on the outside of our cereal box and the black paper on the inside (cutting it to size) and also more purple along the sides of the box. On the inside we used the 2 macaroni boxes to hold the weight of our last black paper as the "bottom screen/hand controls". The above picture is my son cutting a slit out to put in valentines.

 

After we had everything together, my son was totally happy over his final product! I am so happy that I was able to help him out this year with something for school. If you are unsure by looking at my 'iphone' picture, we made his Valentine's Day box a replica of his 3DSXL!

 

 

 

 

 

Valentine's Day Cards

Hello again!

  I am not sure if you are aware, but I am addicted to Pinterest! For my stepdaughters class this year we decided that we were going to make our own Valentine's cards for her classroom. Yesterday was a perfect day to take pictures outdoors as it was snowing outside. Here is what I did for her.

 

I took her outside and picked out a pose for her to do.

I love how you can see in the photo that it was still snowing outside.

 

Later in the evening I started editing.

 

I edit all of my images in Lightroom 3.

I brightened the exposure, cropped, and cloned out the pool and deck in the background.

 

After I have my photo looking to my taste I did my final edit in Corel Paintshop ProX4

 

 

 

  She absolutely loves the cards that she will be handing out this year. I printed them out in wallet size which is perfect for Valentine cards to hand out. I think that I saw some little envelopes at Target that I'm going to pick up tomorrow. We are going to add the Sweetart lollipops to her cards too. I can't wait to hear how her class likes them

 

 

On my next post, I will be sharing what my son and I made for his classroom!