Give a valentine a piece of your heart with this clever pin made from old jigsaw puzzle pieces.

Prep Time: Under 1 hour
What you need:
	Puzzle pieces  Red spray paint  Newspaper  Glue  Pin backing (available at craft stores)
Seasons: Valentine's day
Materials: cardboard, paints
Instructions:
1.	Place 20 to 25 old jigsaw puzzle pieces, excluding the straight-edged border pieces, on newspaper and spray-paint them red (brush-applied paint will also work).
2.	Let the pieces dry thoroughly before gluing them into a heart shape. Use only as many as you need; each heart will look different.
3.	Glue on a pin back and present it to your true love.

Variations
Glue on magnetic backing to create a sweet magnet.

Kissie Ball

Kissie Ball Wrap a Styrofoam ball in tin foil.  Cut off excess.  Mold foil to shape of ball and glue edges down with cool glue gun.  Cut a 10" length of metallic cord or ribbon.   Pin ends of cord into ball with straight pins and reinforce with cool glue for hanger.  Put a tiny dab of cool glue onto the bottom of a red Hershey kiss and press onto the ball.  Continue all away around.  The ball in picture is actually a small egg shape.  A large round ball would be very pretty!  The paper rarely tore when pulling candy from our ball. Print and fold topper in half.  A message can be written inside.

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Pictured Kissie Ball was made for Valentines Day in 1999

FANCY FREE TEE

 

FANCY FREE TEE

Take your love of creativity to new heights with this winged Fancy Free Tee! All you need is Tulip® Soft Fabric Paint™ and a little imagination. So very lovely, so very you! Materials List Tulip® Fashion Form™ Tulip® Soft Fabric Paint™ BI15789 Azalea BI17199 Sterling Glitter Miscellaneous   Cotton swab    Child's tee: Pink    Freezer paper    Foil    Pencil    Crafter's knife or scissors    Iron    Craft sponge  Patterns pattern  below Instructions 1.        Trace heart and wing pattern onto freezer paper and cut out with scissors (or crafter's knife with adult supervision), leaving sides intact to create stencil. 2.        With adult supervision, center stencil shiny side down onto tee and iron on. 3.        Insert Tulip® Fashion Form™ in between layers of shirt. Pour puddles of Azalea and Sterling Glitter Tulip® Soft Fabric Paints™ onto foil. Pounce Azalea into large heart stencil using sponge. Pounce Sterling Glitter into the wings. Let dry and add a second coat. When dry, remove stencil. 4.        Dip index finger into Azalea and put finger imprint on tee holding finger at a slight angle. Repeat with a second print in opposite direction to create a heart shape. Refer to photo. Let dry. 5.        Using end of cotton swab, dip into the Sterling Glitter and make dots in large heart stencil and randomly around tee. Refer to photo. Let dry. 6.        Dip finger into paint and hold at an angle and press on fabric. Repeat above but press down in opposite angle to create a heart. retcust08_171

Lip Smackers

 

Lip Smackers

Little kids will gobble up these goofy gelatin kisses.

Ingredients

·         3  packages (3 ounces each) red flavored gelatin (or your favorite flavor)

·         4  envelopes unflavored gelatin

·           Pink decorating icing

Directions

1. Place all the red gelatin in a large bowl. Pour in 3 cups boiling water; stir to dissolve gelatin, about 3 minutes. In another bowl, sprinkle 4 envelopes unflavored gelatin over 3 cups cold water. Let gelatin sit to absorb water, then stir to combine. Pour clear gelatin into red gelatin, and stir to combine. Pour mixture into a 9 x 13-inch baking pan, and refrigerate until set, about 2 hours.

2. Dip lip-shaped cookie cutter into hot water, then cut out shapes from set gelatin. To make it easier to remove "lips" from pan, place bottom of pan in hot water for 5 to 8 seconds, then remove the cutouts with a thin spatula. Pipe outline of lips using pink decorating icing.

KISS ME PILLOW

 

Nothing spells romance like a pair of red lips! Give a huggable kiss to your sweetheart with this Kiss Me Pillow or use it as cute Valentine’s Day throw. Aleene’s® Fabric Fusion™ makes this lovely project a cinch; use it to adhere the fabric pieces together. Materials List Aleene's® Fabric Fusion™ Permanent Dry Cleanable Fabric Adhesive™ Tulip® Cordless Heat Setting Tool™ Tulip® Glam-It-Up!™ Iron-On Crystals™ 300 Clear Pack Miscellaneous   Polyfil    Chalk    Tweezers    Scissors    Sewing needle    ½ yard of red fabric    Thread - red Instructions 1.        Fold red fabric in half and freehand draw lips onto fabric in desired size. 2.        Keeping the fabric folded, cut out lips pattern, making sure to cut through both layers of fabric. Trim edges if needed. 3.        Apply Aleene’s® Fabric Fusion™ along border of one of the lip-shaped pieces of fabric. **Leave a small section without glue. This will be the opening for stuffing with polyfil. Press the other lip-shaped piece of fabric on top of the piece with Fabric Fusion™, firmly pressing into glue. Let dry. 4.        Once dry, pull fabric inside-out through opening and stuff fabric with desired amount of Polyfil. 5.        Use needle and red thread to hand stitch the opening. 6.        Use chalk to draw a line through middle of lips. (See picture for position.) With needle and red thread, stitch across chalk line, making sure to stitch through both layers of fabric. 7.        Using chalk, write the words “KISS ME” in your desired font/script. Place Crystals over letters using tweezers. 8.        Following Heat-Setting Tool instructions, place tip of tool on top of a Crystal and hold for 5 to 6 seconds. Repeat for all Crystals.