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DIY Love Notes Box

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! I was challenged by Cricut to use my new Explore Air 2 to create a fun project and I came up with this DIY Love Notes Box. You could use it in a variety of ways. It reminds me of the boxes we used to decorate in elementary school that would be filled with Valentine’s cards from your classmates. A “grown up” version of this could be to fill it with love notes for your spouse or significant other to present them with on Valentine’s Day. Another idea is, a week or two before Valentine’s start filling it with a sweet note each day – each person in the couple could use different colored paper and on Valentine’s Day you could spend time going through the notes with each other.

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DIY Love Notes Box made using the Cricut Explore Air 2

DIY Love Notes Box

To make this DIY Love Notes Box, open this project file in the Cricut Design Space. The project will cut on 4 mats and you’ll need 3 pieces of white cardstock (for the box) and 1 piece of red cardstock (for the lid). The design is color coded in the project file to help you visualize what you are cutting as you feed through the machine. I like to use my extra mat when I’m cutting multi-page projects so that I can have the next mat loaded and ready to go, and pull the already cut piece off from the first mat while I run the second mat through. This saves a lot of time! I used a combination of tape and glue to put the box together and also had to use clothespins a few times to hold it together while the glue dried! Check out the video guide to assembling this project:
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Wood Slice Banner

Can you believe it’s already February!? Seems like Christmas just ended and it’s now time to decorate for Valentine’s day! (Or if you’re like me – finally take down the Christmas tree!) This is the third month of the Ready, Set, Craft Challenge with Gav + Ro, Our House Now A Home, and XOKerry. We’ve had some fun challenges the past 2 months including Mini Ornaments and Yarn. I was especially excited for the challenge item this month: wood! A few months ago we had a HUGE tree limb fall in our front yard (narrowly missing our house and cars). Most of it was hauled away, but I saved a few branches thinking I would craft something out of them. Who else do you know that has a major disaster in the front yard and immediately creates a Pinterest board with projects for it? The same kinda gal with a friend who comes over with a chainsaw to help clean up and is paid in wood scraps! The challenge this month finally gave me a chance to put some of this wood to good use! I originally planned to create ornaments with these (and you totally could!) but since it’s now time for Valentine’s I decided to use a wood burner (for the first time!) to create a custom wood slice banner.

DIY Wood Slice Banner by Amber Oliver…

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Valentine’s Day DIY Journal

So I haven’t been updating like I thought I would be able to! I had a good weekend and an even better Valentine’s day! I spent the weekend in Dallas watching Eric play Ultimate Frisbee. It would have been a LOT better had the weather been nicer. It was literally freezing. But Eric’s team played really well and ended up with 6th place out of 23 teams. I spent most of the time bundled up in the car watching from a distance with another girl Grace. We had fun hanging out and went downtown and ate lunch and explored a little bit as well.

Yesterday Eric and I celebrated Valentine’s day. He had night class so I knew we wouldn’t get to spend a lot of the evening together but he made of for that with breakfast, lunch, AND dinner! He made me french toast for breakfast, took me to Red Rock for lunch (one of my favorite places!), and made spaghetti for dinner. It was quite a treat! He also put a lot of thought into my presents that wouldn’t make sense if I told you anyway; but I really appreciated them 🙂

I will share with you the gift I made for him. It was DIY (of course!) and I could tell he REALLY liked it and appreciated it which made me really happy!

I went by Hobby Lobby and picked up the supplies. When I saw the compass stamp I knew I had to get it! I found a quote I liked and thought was fitting and stamped it on the cover.

I also stamped his initals on the back and added a little note inside.

He was so excited about his gift and when he got out of his class he wanted to start writing in it immediately. He was going on about how he needed a good pen to write in it. I know what to get next time I need a gift idea!

 

On another DIY note: i’m wearing one of the skirts I made today!! I am wearing it with tights and boots because the weather is still chilly here in Stilly! (Corny I know!) I can’t wait to share my sewing projects on here very soon 🙂