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Candy Heart Gumball Machine

Feb

Happy February! Amanda here today with a super cute and super fun Valentine’s Day craft. Conversations are my all time favorite Valentine’s Day candy. I love the colors, the little messages, and the fun little heart shapes. I almost fell over when I saw the UR Sweet paper from the We Go Together collection. It was everything I loved about conversation hearts on a single sheet of paper. I thought it would be fun to pair this cute paper with some candy conversation hearts to create a Valentine’s Day gift.

Valentine’s Day pretty is pretty low key at our house, but every year I like to make my kids a fun little candy gift. I gathered a few plastic Christmas ornaments (the kind that come in two halves) and some patterned paper and put my die cutting machine to work. A few minutes later and I had some cute little gifts ready for Valentine’s Day.

The gumball machine base is the key to the whole project. I found that resizing the base to be the same diameter as the ornament makes for a well balanced gumball machine. And although not functional, the little dial on the front is still a lot of fun. Secure the spinner with a brad to add an interactive element to your gumball machine.

Tie the halves of the plastic ornament together with a piece of baker’s twine and top with a conversation heart sticker.

Before you begin assembling the gumball machine base, adhere the dial components to the base. This will eliminate a lot of hassle after the base is assembled.

Fold the tabs on the bottom piece, one at a time, before you adhere the larger gumball base piece.

Apply a strong adhesive (I prefer This to That double sided red tape) to the inside of the gumball base and not to the tabs on the bottom portion of the base. Adhere tabs one at a time as you work your way around in a circle.

As you near the end of the base, apply double sided red tape to the inner tab and adhere the base together.

When you are done, your base should look like this. Gently fold the top tabs inward and place your ornament on top.

Happy Valentine’s Day!
Amanda

Supplies:
WE GO TOGETHER DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK 12″X12″ U R SWEET
WE GO TOGETHER CARDSTOCK STICKERS 6″X12″ 2/SHEETS ICONS & PHRASES
WE GO TOGETHER DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK 12″X12″ LOVABLE
PEBBLES PAPER PAD 6″X6″ 36/PKG WE GO TOGETHER
BAKER’S TWINE VALUE PACK 5YD SPOOLS 24/PKG
THIS TO THAT DOUBLE-SIDED SUPER STICKY RED TAPE
3D Gumball Machine

Valentine’s Day Cards

Feb

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Hi Pebbles friends! It’s Wendy Sue here with you today, sharing a project for this week’s “hearts” theme. I love giving cards to friends and family members all through the year, but it seems like there’s something extra special about Valentine’s Day cards. I think this is the one holiday that people, even people who aren’t as crazy about paper crafting as I am, will sit down and create a handmade card. It’s appropriate that the holiday centered around LOVE also encourages people to make their own cards, with their own two hands, to share their feelings of love and friendship! This is the first card I created for Valentine’s Day this year:

Would you like to know how I was inspired to create it? Well, let me share! I was shopping with my daughter last weekend. We walked into Pier 1 Imports, just to look around. That’s when I saw this sweet pillow:

Isn’t it darling?!? I didn’t buy it…but I did snap a quick photo or two to use as inspiration for a project!

When I got back home, I pulled out my heart confetti – almost identical colors to the knots in the pillow! And so I began:

I opted to use a pre-made kraft card from American Crafts for the base of my project:

I dumped out the heart confetti and used the packaging as a template. I traced around the heart shape, very lightly, with a pencil.

Then I just added adhesive and started placing confetti hearts within the shape.

I added some machine stitching around the shape, just to help define the heart shape, and add a touch of hand-made whimsy.

Finally, I added one of the “You & Me” stickers to the corner of the card. Of course, I couldn’t just place the sticker onto the card – I used foam dots to add some dimension!

And since I had a whole package of blank cards, and a slew of confetti hearts in front of me, I decided to create a few more cards while I was at it! Here are a few additional ideas for adding heart confetti to a card:

Stitch on a heart garland!

Make a letter – x’s and o’s are perfect for Valentine’s Day!

Or simply stitch on a few hearts to add a little bit of color and fun!

Valentine's Day Cards by @wendysuea using @pebblesinc We Go Together collection

I hope you feel inspired to create some handmade cards for someone you love!

Supplies:
We Go Together Confetti Hearts
We Go Together Cardstock Stickers
We Go Together Epoxy Stickers
We Go Together Accordion Fold Hearts
We Go Together Paper Pad
American Crafts – Kraft Cards

Valentine’s Day Treats for Kids

Feb

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Hello there! It’s Mendi here today popping in with some sweet little Valentine’s Treats perfect for your child to exchange with classmates. As soon as I saw the sheet of 12 little Valentines I knew I wanted to find a fun project to use them on! I was looking for a project that would be easy to mass produce for a class of 24 children and could include some candy. What’s Valentine’s day without candy, right?

I decide on these sweet little sleeves filled with Sweethearts candy. Best of all I was able to get a 2 lb. bag making this a really affordable project to hand out. 🙂

Step 1: To create these, start by cutting your 12×12 paper into 4-inch strips. (you can get 3 treat bags from each piece of paper so including the sheets of cutout, I used 10 sheets of paper to make 24 valentines).

Step 2: Score your paper at 5″, 5.5″, 6″ and 11″. This will form the accordion fold at the bottom of your treat bag and the flap at the top. If you have a print that has a definite top and bottom, make sure to have the top of the print face the zero score line so that the patterned paper design will be upright when folded.

Step 3: Fold the treat sleeve along the score lines and add the 3×4 inch valentine to the front.

Step 4: Adhere a line of scor-tape just below the fold line of the top flap. Fill a small 4×6 clear bag with candies and fold over bag and adhere to tape. I calculated the 2 lb. bag gives each kid 25 to 30 candies for a 24-student classroom.

Step 5: Using a ruler, find the center of the bag and punch two holes in the top flap, punching through all the layers.

Step 6: String the holes with twine and tie a bow. A little trick I figured out to make the process quicker was to thread a fat needle with a long piece of twine so that I could easily thread the holes without my twine unraveling. This allowed me to tie 4 or 5 bows quickly before repeating the process.

There you have it! Easy and really fun to make! I decided to finish off mine by adding a little die-cut border to my flap for an extra detail, but they are cute either way.

Supplies:
WE GO TOGETHER WE GO TOGETHER DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK
WE GO TOGETHER SENDING LOVE DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK
WE GO TOGETHER XOXO DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK
WE GO TOGETHER U R SWEET DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK
WE GO TOGETHER ROSES ARE RED DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK
WE GO TOGETHER BEST FRIENDS DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK
WE GO TOGETHER SWEETHEART DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK
WE GO TOGETHER BUDDING ROMANCE DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK

Embellished Valentine’s Canvas

Jan

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Hello Pebbles Fans, Holly here from Ribbons & Glue. February is only a few days away now which means it’s almost Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s crafts are some of my favorite crafts to make. Every year, I tend to add a few home decor pieces to my Valentine’s collection. This year I embellished a painted Valentine’s Canvas with epoxy stickers from the Pebbles Inc. We Go Together collection.

To make this Valentine’s Canvas, I painted an 8 x 8 canvas with chalky finish paints, then used my Silhouette to cut out a stencil to trace out the #14.

After my paints were dry, I embellished the canvas with We Go Together epoxy heart and phrase stickers and red glitter foam stickers. Aren’t those epoxy phrase stickers sooo cute?!

This embellished Valentine’s Canvas was a simple project to make and shows how easy it is to incorporate Pebbles Inc We Go Together stickers into your Valentine’s DIY decor.

You can see how I painted this Valentine’s Canvas with Americana Chalky Finish paints on my blog Ribbons & Glue.

Supplies:
We Go Together Epoxy Heart Sticker
We Go Together Epoxy Epoxy Phrase Stickers
American Crafts Crimson Glitter Foam Thickers
Chalky Finish Paints
8 x 8 Canvas

Valentine’s Date Jar

Jan

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Hi everyone! I’m Eva Pizarro and today I will show you how to make a cute date jar with the We go together collection from Pebbles. Me and my husband often want to do something fun in the evenings but we never know what to do! this jar is full of ideas and the best part is that you can put all the thing you would like to do together.

The first thing you have to do is cover the lid. I used some red washi tape, but you can paint it or maybe use some permanent ink.

To do the quilling hearts cut 6 inch long strips of paper and write what you want on the inside.

Bend them in half and curl the edges inside until you reach the middle section.

Decorate your jar and include a tag with a legend. I used pink strips for dinner ideas, red for dinner plus an activity and teal for stay at home dates.