oh i've missed being crafty. the extent of my craftiness over the past few months can be seen here. and to tell the truth, that really didn't take much work. so, i've been itching to do something crafty. enter, pinterest & it's wonderful crafty goodness.
bad mom confession: olivia loves scratch off tickets. a lot. and i have been known to buy the $1 ones, occasionally, just to let her scratch them off. we rarely win. but she has fun anyways. so when i stumbled upon this, i knew she would love it. ok so i did my own variation of them, but it's still awesome.
may i present to you, olivia's valentine scratch-offs.
and just for kicks, a tutorial.
i printed the jokes 3x5 so there were 4 to a page. as an added bonus, my color ink ran out so some of the hearts look like they are on fire - red fading to yellow-orange. i was ticked, but olivia loved it. no harm no foul. i also used picmonkey.com to get the heart doily & liv picked the font. it was a good choice. I modge-podged them onto red cardstock.
i bought a package of the clear address labels at the wally. i may have panicked slightly when i found that they weren't exactly clear. but it worked out fine.
here it is with the label over the punchline. see, you can barely see it.
for the scratch-off, i mixed dawn liquid dish soap and metallic craft pain ($.97 at the wally). this is after 1 coat. i may have panicked a little bit here too.
here it is after 4 coats of the paint/soap mixture. it may not look perfect, but hey we are talking about 8 year olds so they won't be overly critical like me.
i cannot stress this enough, let them dry dry dry. fyi - 3 hours not long enough. however, i let them set overnight & tested again, voila. it worked perfectly.
here they are in all their glory. (please ignore my messy counter and random pill bottle.)
all that is left for olivia to do is write the to/froms on the back. my plan is to attach a penny to the back too so they can scratch away.
thank you, pinterest.
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