Its almost Valentine’s Day!

I still have scraps of fabric.  If I let them sit, they will be here for a long, long time.  Like at least until next year.  We can’t have that, right?

Remember this treasure?  We are going to use it again.  Mainly because I love it.

We are going to add some of this.  Notice that it says, “no-sew”.  It should really read, “DO NOT SEW”.  This is NOT a sewing project.  Never, ever, ever, ever run HeatnBond Ultra through your machine unless you want to destroy your machine.  It always used to happen by accident when I worked in the world of sewing machine shops.  Its a very bad thing.  There are sew-able bonding webs, this is NOT one of them.

But I love the fact that it will stay put while using low heat.  Since I am combining fabric and paper, low heat is a good thing.  I don’t need any warping going on.

I made the card.  Then I ironed on strips of heat-n-bond to the back of some of the fabric.  After it cooled, I cut out strips in varying sizes.  I layered them and bonded them so I just had one strip.

Before bonding, make sure to trim.  Otherwise you will end up bonding to your ironing board cover, which is a bad thing.  Bad, bad thing.

Voila!  All bonded.  You could stop here, or you could continue, like I did.

Aren’t these neat?  I thought so.  I bought a lot of these for the kid’s valentines this year.  I found these at Archiver’s, but perhaps your local scrapbook store has them?  I would check.  They are so neat.

Look at this.  So cute!  Filled with candy.  I think these are so perfect for valentines!  But it almost looks too sterile.

There we go.  I cut some more small strips using the pinker and added them as ribbon through the top.  So adorable!  And so easy too.

The rest of my scraps just disappeared out of the sewing studio with the middle child who mumbled something about having to decorate her valentines day box.  Whew…..all scraps gone!