Home Matters Linky Party – Winter Valentine

Welcome to the weekly Home Matters Linky Party #416 Winter Valentine.

A great place to come, share your blog posts, and make new friends.

We are so glad you are here with us each week.

Before we start the party, let me share my Valentine project:

DIY Love Container For Valentine

Meet the hosts!

Donna @ Modern On Monticello — Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

Mel @ Decor Craft Design — Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

Allyson @ Southern Sunflowers — Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram

My feature picks this week!

Winter Onederland First Birthday Party

Recycled Heart Art Canvas

Valentine Gnome Gift Tags With Ek Tools

Easy Red Velvet Donuts

Home Matters Linky Party Guidelines:

Please link up no more than THREE posts each week–try to make sure that they are new links that you have not shared here previously.
Please take some time to poke around and visit some of the other links.
Please take some time to check out your hosts and co-hosts on social media.
We appreciate the variety of blogs on the www; however, the Home Matters Party is for links on matters of the HOME. Please link accordingly.
We ask that you do not add other Linky Parties, Blog Hops, or Giveaways–unless you begin the party with a new project, recipe or post.
On the same note, please do not add links of an extremist, political or strong controversial nature. (The hosts and co-hosts read each and every blog post linked and will contact you directly if you have linked something that does not fit into the realm of the party.)

With your help, we can continue to grow the Home Matters Party! Thank you!

We are looking for Co-Hosts. Help us Rock this party!
If you are interested, please contact Donna at radforddesignstudio@gmail.com.

Link Up!

By joining the Home Matters Linky Party you are giving permission for all hosts and co-hosts to use and share any part of your post, including pictures, for party promotion, as featured posts, in party photo collages, on blogs, and across social media, etc. All credits will be given to the original source.

Thank you for joining in the fun and excitement at the Home Matters Linky Party. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. We look forward to chatting with you in the comments.

Thank you for linking up! For more of my futureValentine posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter

See you soon!

Link up your creativity!

DIY Love Container For Valentine

Valentine’s Day is near, you may want to give some sweats to your loved ones, but you need a special appearance for the sweets to impress your loved ones. A handmade container will impress more than a store bought. It will not cost you a lot as my idea is recycling some used things; in this case I used Pringles can and a decorative tissue paper which I get from a party that is still clean. It’s a cute way to show your love, especially those who love saving environment. Scroll down to see how I made this Love Container for Valentine’s Day.

Things To Prepare

It’s a short list of supplies that you need to prepare. Try to replace it with something similar to my material if you don’t have the same one. Just use whatever you have in your craft stash. Let’s see what are the list supplies which used to make this DIY Love Container for Valentine :

Pringles can
Decorative tissue paper
Decorative paper
Pink jute rope
Rose ribbon ornaments
Paper glue
Clear glue

How To Make

To show how much we love our loved ones, . Anyway, just follow these easy steps on how to do DIY Love Container for Valentine :

1 . Make sure your Pringles can is cleaned. Wrap your Pringles can with a decorative paper. I used vertical lines with shades of pink decorative paper.

2. Cut a tissue paper on the picture that you like to use. Mine is a drawing of a Eiffel Tower in France with roses and macarons. I love it, it’s vintage and romantic.

3. Now paste the cut-tissue paper carefully to the wrapped-Pringles can. Use paper glue.

4. Then you can decorate the lid. Take some rose ribbon ornaments and paste it one by one around the Pringles lid. It goes well with the tissue paper pattern of roses.

5. Last touch is to draw or apply some glue to the side of the picture of Eiffel Tower a shape of heart. Use the pink jute rope to to make the heart. Isn’t it pretty?

I think it’s pretty enough to hold your yummy sweets and use it as a Valentine’s gift to your loved ones. A handmade gift plus sweets? That’s surely showers of love! By the way, it’s easy to make, right?

This Love Container project is my contribution to The Sustainable Craft Challenge Blog Hop hosted by Julie with her beautiful blog Sum of Their Stories. It’s a craft challenge with a sustainable principle behind it which comes in different theme every month. This month, the theme is “LOVE” and last month was “WARM“. I love to be part of this challenge as I love to upcycle things into something new, pretty and useful.

Now, let’s see what other blogger’s projects!

Sum of their Stories	Upcycle a Plastic Container with Paint Pens
Our Good Life	Wine Cork Phone Holder
Sew Crafty Crochet	Valentine’s Day Gnome Scarf
Decor Craft Design	DIY Love Container For Valentine
Treasures Made From Yarn	Heart Garland
Vicky Myers Creations	How to make a cute paper heart garland
Purple Hues and Me	Wire Hanger Soda Can Heart Wreath
Life as a LEO Wife	Winter Door Hanger without a Cricut
A Rose Tinted World	DIY Heart Garland from Upcycled Cards
Christine’s Crafts	Easy Valentine’s cards using paper scraps.
Songbird	DIY Lace Valentine’s Hearts
Mimi – A Great Name for Grandma	DIY Valentine Branch Tree
Southern Sunflowers	How to Decorate a Tin Can Planter

For more of my future Winter and Valentine’s posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

For creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop, Happiness Is Homemade Link Party and Home Matters Linky! Link your inspiring posts (anything, from recipes, home decor, DIYs, crafts, family, health to gardening) every Monday and Sunday. Get a change to be featured! I’m one of the co-host of You’re The Star blog hop for Creative Week and Happiness Is Homemade; I will choose the creative posts to be featured on Creative Features week and on Happiness Is Homemade. Please come and join the blog hop and I

Home Matters Linky Party – LOVE

Welcome to the weekly Home Matters Linky Party #415 Love

A great place to come, share your blog posts, and make new friends.

We are so glad you are here with us each week.

Before we start the party, let me share my Winter project:

How To Make Easy Valentine’s Treats Decoration

Meet the hosts!

Donna @ Modern On Monticello — Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

Mel @ Decor Craft Design — Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

Allyson @ Southern Sunflowers — Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram

My feature picks this week!

Valentine’s Tablescape for Just You and Me

Learn how to Create Simple No Sew Shabby Chic Pillow Covers

Hearts and Flowers

How To Make Moss Covered Heart

Home Matters Linky Party Guidelines:

Please link up no more than THREE posts each week–try to make sure that they are new links that you have not shared here previously.
Please take some time to poke around and visit some of the other links.
Please take some time to check out your hosts and co-hosts on social media.
We appreciate the variety of blogs on the www; however, the Home Matters Party is for links on matters of the HOME. Please link accordingly.
We ask that you do not add other Linky Parties, Blog Hops, or Giveaways–unless you begin the party with a new project, recipe or post.
On the same note, please do not add links of an extremist, political or strong controversial nature. (The hosts and co-hosts read each and every blog post linked and will contact you directly if you have linked something that does not fit into the realm of the party.)

With your help, we can continue to grow the Home Matters Party! Thank you!

We are looking for Co-Hosts. Help us Rock this party!
If you are interested, please contact Donna at radforddesignstudio@gmail.com.

Link Up!

Thank you for joining in the fun and excitement at the Home Matters Linky Party. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. We look forward to chatting with you in the comments.

Don’t forget to linkup at You’re The Star Blog Hop…

… and Happiness Is Homemade Link Party!

See you soon!

Link up your creativity!

How To Make Easy Valentine’s Treats Decoration

Do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? You want to have a simple celebration but enough to bring up the Love vibes? Then my Easy Valentine’s Treat Decoration will help you prepare one of the elements for Valentine’s Day. Have a cute simple treats on Valentine’s Day is forgiven, pink shades are not tacky, so combine these two things, then you’ve got yourself a valentine’s treats which able to decorate your Valentine’s Day simple celebration.

I made a very easy Valentine’s Treats Decoration from a cute Valentine’s container which made out of a Pringles can and some pink and blue marshmallows. I think marshmallows are perfect for Valentine’s Day treats beside chocolates and candies. Marshmallows are sweet, soft, yummy, come in many soft pretty colors and usually looks adorable even in just a regular marshmallow form. Don’t you agree?

Things To Prepare

Like always, I use things that I can find on my craft supplies and always try to repurpose or recycling things. I don’t intentionally buy new supplies unless it’s an essential part of my project that I don’t have. Let’s see what are the list supplies which were used to make this Easy Valentine’s Day Treats Decoration :

Small Pringles can
Decorative paper wrap (mine is with heart pattern)
Pink ribbon
Clear glue and paper glue
Pink paper straw
Marshmallows in white and pink

How To Make

An adorable Valentine’s container with marshmallows is super easy to make and serve. The Valentine’s treats can be a decoration element as well. Anyway, just follow these easy steps on how to make Easy Valentine’s Treats Decoration :

1 . Prepare a small Pringles can or any other similar can. Make sure it’s cleaned.

2. Cut the decorative paper wrapper to the size of the can and then glue it to wrap the Pringles can.

3. Next is to paste a small pink ribbon around the top and bottom of the Pringles holder with clear glue. Your Valentine’s Treats holder is done!

4. Now, take some pink and white marshmallow and thrust it one by one to each pink straw.

5. Lastly, arrange all of those pink and white marshmallows on straw in the Valentine’s holder. Super cute for Valentine’s treats decoration isn’t it?

This easy Valentine’s Treats is great for Valentine’s Day decoration. It can be one of a great Valentine’s treats decoration on the Valentine’s treat station in your home. Mixed it with other treats or maybe even make more of this Valentine’s treats and put it along your Valentine’s tablescape as a center piece. Be creative with it.

For more of my future Winter and Valentine’s Day posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

Easy Valentine’s Card With One Colored Pencil

Giving a handmade Valentine’s card for your loved ones will leave a special meaning. You can craft a Valentine’s card or draw your Valentine’s card. This time I’m going to share an idea of an Easy Valentine’s Card With One Colored Pencil. Yes, You will only need to use a pink colored pencil to draw your own Valentine’s card. It’s easy and quick to do, and of course it looks super sweet for Valentine’s Day. Let me show you how I draw my Valentine’s card step by step.

Things To Prepare

Super short list of supplies for this Valentine’s card, and your main tool is your hand. Let’s see what are the list supplies which were used to make this Easy Valentine’s Card With One Colored Pencil :

A drawing paper (I used B5 paper size)
Pink colored pencil
Black drawing pen

How To Make

To show how much I love my loved ones, I drew lots of hearts. It’s easy and will take less than an hour to draw even for those who doesn’t used to draw. Anyway, just follow these easy steps on how to draw an Easy Valentine’s Card With One Colored Pencil :

1 . Fold your drawing paper into two, neatly.

2. Now, draw a frame with one line by using pink colored pencil. It doesn’t have to be very straight lines, it can be a little bit shaky lines.

3. Next is to draw many hearts in a different sizes and orientation. Some are big, small, medium, or tiny. Some are facing left, some are to the right and some just straight. I was starting with drawing a big hearts first then follow by smaller and smaller hearts.

4. It’s time to color it. Start to color some hearts in darkest pink. Press your pink colored pencil while coloring to get a darker pink. Try to scatter the colored hearts.

5. Repeat it to some other hearts, but this time, loose your pressure to the colored pencil to have a lighter color than before.

6. Do it again with even lighter pink, so you will get 3 shades of pink; dark pink, medium pink and light pink.

7. Your hearts coloring is finished, so now take your black drawing pen and write “/lav/” which is how to pronounce “love”. And on the inside, write down “That’s how you say it”. Finished!

I think is super cute and you can make more of this Valentine’s card easily. You can change the pink color with other favorite color of your loved ones, like maybe red, purple or even blue. Well, but if you want to stick to the traditional Valentine’s color, then use a pink colored pencil.

For more of my future Winter and Valentine’s Day posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

DIY Valentine’s Gift Pink Container With Initial

Valentine’s Day is a month to come, it’s time to think about our loved ones. A loving thought that is best being expressed in a tangible thing, a Valentine’s Day Gift! Yes, and I have an idea for a little cute gift for Valentine; A DIY Valentine’s Gift Pink Container With Initial. This glittery pink container is great for Valentine’s Day gift. You can fill it with sweets, cute hair clips, some mini cosmetics, anything! And of course the initial is the initial of your loved one’s name. More great news is that the Valentine’s container is super easy to make. Let see my tutorial!

Things To Prepare

Like always, I use things that I can find on my craft supplies. I don’t intentionally buy new supplies unless it’s an essential part of my project that I don’t have. Let’s see what are the list supplies which were used to make this DIY Valentine’s Gift Pink Container With Initial :

Small Pringles can
Pink pattern paper wrap (mine is with Robin and flowers pattern)
Pink glitter craft foam
Pink ribbon
A white drawer knob plus a screw
Clear glue and paper glue

How To Make

To show how much we love our loved ones, an adorable pink glittery container with sweets or any cute mini gifts will definitely showers them with love. Anyway, just follow these easy steps on how to do DIY Valentine’s Gift Pink Container With Initial :

1 . Prepare a small Pringles can or any other similar can that you have with a lid. Make sure it’s cleaned. Unless you want to give a Pringles as a gift, then you can skip the cleaning part.

2. Cut the paper wrapper to the size of the can and then glue it to wrap the Pringles can. I chose the part where the paper has a Robin bird on it.

3. Next is to cut a pink glitter craft foam to cover the lid and cut out an initial. Be careful with the initial, don’t draw it on the wrong direction.

4. Now, after you paste the glitter pink circle and an initial to the wrapped can, it’s time for you to install a cute knob on the lid. Use a small screw to secure it.

5. Lastly, get some pink ribbon and wrap around the side of the lid. It’s a great finish for the lid to look better. Finished!

It’s your choice to send a can of Pringles with my decoration idea or use this empty decorated Pringles can as a container to your other mini gifts or sweets for Valentine’s Day. Whichever makes your loved ones happy, that one will surely the best to choose. Above all, this cute valentine’s gift container will steel any girl’s heart.

Super Easy DIY Felt Flowers

I was going through some of my craft supplies and I found my stash of felts. I was instantly wanted to do something with the felt, but then I thought of welcoming Spring. Okay, let’s just make some felt flowers, that would be fun. So, this felt flowers are super easy to make, you can even do it without drawing a pattern if you are handy with scissors. It would take you around 2 minutes to complete one flower. How easy and quick is that?!

I use my soft pink and white felt to make my flowers. I’m going to make more of them, but now I’m just going to show you some that I had made. I paired the soft pink with white to get a soft color of Spring. You can use other colors you like or colors that you have on your felt stash. Anyway you like. Let’s find out more how I made these adorably easy felt flowers.

Things To Prepare

For material, as most of my projects, I use things that I already have. In this case, I use soft colors of Spring that I have, which are soft pink and white. Anyway, let’s see what I use to make this Super EasyDIY Felt Flowers :

Pink felt
White felt
Pearl beads (white)
Glue

How To Make

It’s easy to make, so you can make lots of them and use it to decorate other project. Now, gather all the supplies which I’ve mentioned above and follow these easy steps on how to make Super Easy DIY Felt Flowers :

1 . First, determine the size of flower that you want. From there you can decide how big a circle of felt that you need to cut.

2. The circle shape will be cut into spiral. The spiral felt is going to be the flower.

3 .Now, form a circular motion on the spiral felt until finished. Don’t forget to apply glue on the bottom side of the felt white you twirl it.

4. Finish it off with pearl bead in the middle of the flower, use clear glue to secure it. Finished!

5. To have a different variation, I beveled the spiral to get a petal shape. You can also make a pointy petal shape to have more variations. Just be creative with it.

Super easy and quick way to make a flower out of felt. Great project to start with in this early Spring. You can use them for bouquets, wreaths, decorations and many more. Have fun with felt flowers!

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You’re The Star Blog Hop – Lovely Creative Features

Happy Valentine’s Day! Hello and welcome to You’re The Star Blog Hop Lovely Creative Features! Find many wonderful ideas and tutorials from this week’s Creative Features! Please share your ideas too, by linking up your inspiring posts. Visit the blogs and get more stories behind it. And by clicking the CLICK HERE on below post, you can link your posts and able to find more other linked posts about fantastic recipes, beautiful home decor, DIYs, creative tips, family posts and gardening on this party! Tons of ideas from different fantastic bloggers who have linked their amazing posts.

Congratulations to all featured bloggers, very inspiring posts! If you want your inspiring posts to be featured too, please join the link up! Old and new post as long as it’s new in You’re The Star Blog Hop. Find the link up button at the end of this post! Your linked posts will be visible to all hosts / co-hosts’ blog and each week will be a themed feature which selected by co-host of the theme; I’m in Creative Week, so together with other creative co-hosts; I’ll be choosing creative bloggers who link up here to be featured on Creative Week every month.

Then, what are you waiting for? But before we go to the party, let me share my old Valentine post.

Free Valentine’s Card Printable

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Welcome to the second week of the February 2022 blog hop called “You’re the Star“!

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WELCOME to CREATIVE feature week of the February 2022 “You’re the STAR” blog hop!
Meet your CREATIVE week Hosts

This week is CREATIVE feature week
Swing by the Creative hosting Team’s blogs:

Colleen @ Butterfly in the Attic
Mel @ Decor Craft Design

Shellie @ Footsteps of Grace

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories. Just to be clear – this is NOT a themed party – you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month.
The “theme” occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#2 CREATIVE – arts & crafts, music, writing &/or dramatic arts (this can include sewing, yarn work, dance, art history, handmade jewelry, painting, computer art, fashion etc – anything creative while remaining family friendly)

(These features were chosen from the January 2022 “You’re the Star” blog hop)

DIY Valentine Wooden Heart Riser by Steph Creates

DIY Box of Roses by Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams

Dixie Belle Paints: 83 Ways To Use Them by Wise Little Owl Furniture

Learn A Stitch Dishcloth by EyeLoveKnots

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Upcycled Valentine Wall Decoration

I was so excited when Julie from Sum Of Their Stories invited me to join her Monthly Sustainable Pinterest Challenge. What is this Sustainable Pinterest Challenge? For the explanation, scroll down below, I just copy paste it from Julie. Lol, I hope she doesn’t mind.

The Pinterest Challenge has had a bit of a reboot for 2022 and is now the Sustainable Pinterest Challenge. Each month I join a group of creative bloggers and we select a pin or two to we feel inspired by and give it a go. Starting in January 2022 the Pinterest Challenge has a sustainable, eco friendly twist to it. All the projects shared will have something about them that involves recycling, upcycling, a general ethos of reducing waste and using what we have. It’s not about beating ourselves with a stick, it’s just about giving thought to how we can make small changes in our lives just a little more sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment.

This month the theme is “From The Kitchen” so I thought of my broken baking pan right away. I couldn’t use it anymore as it’s already leaked, but I still keep it. Yup, I’m a bit of a hoarder. Then I spotted a round wall decoration on Pinterest which inspired me to make use of the ring side of my old baking pan into a Valentine Wall Decoration. I incorporated my Valentine Card from CD into this project. So, let’s find out more on how I made it.

Things To Prepare

For this upcycling project, I took my old project of Valentine Card From CD as one of the main ornament. So, this is actually an upcyling upcycled project. LOL! I sometimes do that if I think of new idea of incorporating my old project with the new one. And this Valentine wall decoration is a great way to preserve your precious Valentine card from your loved one. Anyway, let’s see what I use to make this Upcycled Valentine Wall Decoration:

A Valentine card made out of CD (click to learn how I made it) or you can use any of your Valentine card or ornament.
Old baking pan (just use the outer ring side, it’s a removable baking pan – springform pan)
White paint
Pink checkered ribbon
Gold ribbon
Glue

How To Make

It’s so easy to make, and super quick. Most of all it’s an upcycling decoration from the kitchen. Now, gather all the supplies which I’ve mentioned above and follow these easy steps on how to make Upcycled Valentine Wall Decoration :

1 . Take the old outer ring of the springform pan and clean it. Let it dry. Then you can paint it effortless with white paint to make a rustic look which I like. Leave it to dry.

2. Continue with inserting the ribbon hanger of the CD Valentine Card in the pan’s lock. Secure it.

3 .Make a ribbon out of gold and pink checkered ribbon. Paste the ribbon to the top of the ring, by the lock. Done! Hang it somewhere that you like to decor your home with Valentine’s vibes.

Now let’s take a look at what the other Sustainable Pinterest Challenge participants have made for their “From The Kitchen” challenge.

Julie | Sum of their Stories

Gail | Purple Hues and Me

Terri | Terri Steffes

Ann| The Apple Street Cottage

T’onna | Sew Crafty Crochet

Julie | Treasures Made From Yarn

Lydia | Life Beyond the Kitchen

Allyson | Southern Sunflowers

Mel | Decor Craft Design

Donna | Modern on Monticello

Linda | Crafts a la mode

Niki | Life as a LEO Wife

Kitchen Storage Jar to Pretty Vase

Upcycle Fry Pan DIY

Upcycled Valentine Wall Decoration

DIY Tea Towel

Cakeplate Makeover and Valentine

Jelly Jar Sewing Kits

Vintage Lace Tealight Holder

How to make Reusable Sandwich Wraps

Crochet Dishcloth and Sponge Set

Repurposed Altoid Tin to Camper Games

Wooden Cutting Board Makeover

Crochet Jar Covers

For more of my futureValentine posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

FREE Printable February 2022 Calendar

February 2022 is coming, more plans on next month? February is a month of love, some romantic plans maybe in your mind. Preparations and planning are listed in your head, but hey, it would be easier if you write it all per date in a calendar. Therefor, it is time for me to share my FREE Printable February 2022 Calendar! Write down all your exciting plans on this February 2022 Free Calendar.

For 2022, I present it in soft thematic color according to the month. I prepared a note area below the row of dates, which will help you to write down important notes for the month. The monthly calendar will look so serene in each month and when you put all months together, you can see colorful calm pastel colors. Well, enough with my words, just straight to the downloading part.

Download Free Printable

Please download and print my Free Printable of February 2022 Calendar. It’s in PDF to print and maximum size is A4 paper size. Enjoy the Free Printable!

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Free Printable February 2022 Calendar Download

Enjoy and share my link with your friends and family toget the free January 2022 calendar printable and this February 2022 Calendar. Wait for next month free monthly calendar printable all year long with new theme; and also check other free printables.

For more of my future Valentine posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

For creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop, Home Matters Linky Party and Happiness Is Homemade Link Party! Link your inspiring posts (anything, from recipes, home decor, DIYs, crafts, family, health to gardening) every Monday and Sunday. Get a change to be featured! I’m one of the co-host of You’re The Star blog hop for Creative Week and Happiness Is Homemade will choose the creative posts to be featured on Creative Features week and on Happiness Is Homemade. Please come and join the blog hop and I would love to see you there! Join and share the news!

See you!

Hello Creative 2022!

Mel

You’re The Star Blog Hop – New Year 2022 Home

Hello and welcome to You’re The Star Blog Hop New Year 2022 Home Features! Find many wonderful ideas and tips on decor, diys, recipes at Home Features! Please share your ideas too, by linking up your inspiring posts. Visit the blogs and get more stories behind it. And by clicking the CLICK HERE on below post, you can link your posts and able to find more other linked posts about fantastic recipes, beautiful home decor, DIYs, creative tips, family posts and gardening on this party! Tons of ideas from different fantastic bloggers who have linked their amazing posts.

Then, what are you waiting for? But before we go to the party, let me share my post from last week.

DIY Valentine Card From An Old CD

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WELCOME to the January 2022 “You’re the Star” Blog Hop!
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Please join me in welcoming our newest Cohost:

Shellie from “Footsteps of Grace“

(click HERE to view her wonderful blog)

She will be one of our CREATIVE cohosts.

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WELCOME to HOME feature week of the January 2022 “You’re the STAR” blog hop!
Meet your HOME week Hosts

This week is HOME feature week
Swing by the Home Hosts’ Blogs:
Bev from Eclectic Red Barn
Cindy from Mom, the Lunch Lady

Niki from Life as a LEO Wife

Stacy from Seeking Simple

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories. Just to be clear – this is NOT a themed party – you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month.
The “theme” occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#4 HOME – recipes, home décor, antique/DIY &/or travel (this can include anything about your home – even history posts – all while remaining family friendly)

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(All features were chosen from the December 2021 “You’re the Star” blog hop)

Coffee & Hot Cocoa Bar by On Rockwood Lane

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Caramel by Building Our Hive

Sour Cream Yeast Rolls by Savory Kitchen Table

Dark Chocolate Buche de Noel by Cindy’s On-Line Recipe Box

If you’ve been featured then please grab a STAR button below:

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Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!

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DIY Valentine Card From An Old CD

Valentine’s Day is still one month ahead, yet love is in the air. A Valentine’s Day without a Valentine’s card is a no no! A DIY Valentine’s card is even more meaningful than a card you bought at shop. Therefore, try my DIY Valentine Card which i made from an old CD. Yes, a CD upcyling project again. I’m trying to upcycle and recycle all my stash of old CDs. Actually, I found so many things you can make out of old CDs. So, scroll down and see what are the supplies and how I made this Valentine Card from a CD.

Things To Prepare

These are supplies that very common to crafter. And an old CD is laying somewhere at anybody’s home. So, it’s a Valentine upcycling project with simple materials. Anyway, let’s see what I use to make this DIY Valentine’s Card From An Old CD:

A CD
Pink shades patterned paper
Pink paper
Pink felt
Gold ribbon
Glue
Drawing Pen

How To Make

It’s so easy to make, this can be a last minute DIY Valentine’s card to make. It’s cute and it would not be easily spoiled. Now, gather all the supplies which I’ve mentioned above and follow these easy steps on how to make DIY Valentine’s Card From An Old CD :

1 . Take an old CDs and paste the patterned paper on one side. Let it dry.

2. Continue with inserting a gold ribbon to the front and back of CD. Secure it by applying pink paper on the other side.

3 .Cut a heart shape out of a pink felt and paste it in the middle of the patterned side.

4. Get a drawing pen a write “Be My Valentine” on the pink side. And your Valentine Card is finished!

My DIY Valentine Card from CD is super easy and quick to make. It’s one of a great way to upcycle old CDs. You can give it as a card and or hang it on anywhere you like as decoration. Anyway, you can also check out my other Valentine DIYs.

DIY Valentine’s Heart Wire Ornament

DIY Valentine’s Heart Sign From Seashells

DIY Valentine Wire Gift Tags

and many more.

Happiness Is Homemade Link Party 362 Happy Valentine’s Day

Hi, this is Mel (Decor Craft Design) is hosting again, along February. Welcome to Happiness Is Homemade 362 Happy Valentine’s Day! Tons of Valentine’s inspired posts; from Valentine’s A to Valentine’s Z, it’s all about Valentine! Find Valentine’s ideas and share Valentine’s ideas; get inspired and be inspirations, either or both!

Let’s start with my favorite part of the link party, which is the list of featured posts! Creative and wonderful projects that I have selected come from talented bloggers. So, you can visit each featured post, and you can link up or get more inspirations by clicking the inlinkz button. So, this week’s features are:

I haven’t try this Strawberry Refrigerator Cake recipe from Crystalandcomp.com, but it surely looking delicious and pretty for Valentine’s Day. Don’t you agree?

Strawberry Refrigerator Cake

These cute heart-shape Valentine’s cookies is coming from Organorganizedisland.com. Visit to get the recipe and you can make them as fun and cute Valentine’s gift that will speak your heart out.

Conversation Heart Cookies

Simple but beautiful table setting for Valentine’s dinner of two is a must to celebrate your love together. How romantic is that? Learn more by dropping by at Calypso In The Country.

Red and White Valentine's Day table setting

Cozy Valentine’s Day Table Setting for Two

A Valentine’s gift in a beautiful Valentine’s gift box is a must. I just like the vintage look of it. Get the tutorial at The Apple Street Cottage and make one to show how much you love your partner.

Heart Box

EXTRA FEATURE

Couldn’t help to have an extra feature. Because if you still need extra inspirations for Valentine; a one stop Valentine’s idea is here at Debbees Buzz. Fantastic tablescapes, especially The Paris and the pink rose are my favorites.

20-valentines-day-ideas-table-crafts-decor

20 Sweet Valentines Day Ideas for Table, Crafts & Decor

Thank you for joining us this week whether you are a blogger sharing your latest posts OR a reader enjoying all of the inspirational shares! Don’t forget to drop by and say hello to all our hostesses, they always appreciate your visit! Here are all of our hostesses at Happiness Is Homemade!

Linda @ A Labour Of Life

Sinea @ Ducks ‘n a Row

Beverly @ Eclectic Red Barn

Katie @ Love My Messy Messy Mess

Mel @ Décor Craft Design

Lisa @ Lisa Craftable and Lisa’s Every Day Life

Would you like to be a part of Happiness Is Homemade? We are looking for hostesses to join our team. If you are interested, please email any one of the Happiness Is Homemade hostesses and let them know. We would love to have you join our party.

Now it’s time to share and enjoy new ideas by clicking this below button! Let’s link up!

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Link up your creativity!

Mel

You’re The Star Blog Hop Creative Valentine

Hello and welcome to You’re The Star Blog Hop Creative Valentine! Happy Valentine’s Day! Beautiful Valentine’s ideas and inspiration on this week creative features. And share your ideas by linking up. Visit the blogs and get more stories behind it. And by clicking the CLICK HERE, you can link your posts and able to find more other linked posts about fantastic recipes, beautiful home decor, DIYs, creative tips, family posts and gardening on this party! Tons of ideas from different fantastic bloggers who have linked their amazing posts.

Congratulations to all other featured bloggers, very inspiring posts! If you want your inspiring posts to be featured too, please join the link up! Old and new post as long as it’s new in You’re The Star Blog Hop. Find the link up button at the end of this post! Your linked posts will be visible to all hosts / co-hosts’ blog and each week will be a themed feature which selected by co-host of the theme; I’m in Creative Week, so together with other creative co-hosts; I’ll be choosing creative bloggers who link up here to be featured on Creative Week every month.

Then, what are you waiting for? Let’s link up! But before you link up, I want to share my post from last week;

DIY Valentine’s Gift Paper Weight

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DIY Valentine Wreath by Comfort Spring

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DIY Valentine’s Gift Paper Weight

DIY paper weight can be a great Valentine’s gift for him and for her. It’s useful yet decorative. A Valentine DIY gift would be more meaningful and cost you less. My DIY Valentine’s Gift Paper Weight is a wonderful idea for those who doesn’t know what to gift her partner with something Valentine but not girly pink. Plus, it is so easy to make.

My DIY Valentine’s Gift Paper Weight is in black, a little gold and sparkling red look; fit for him or for her. It does look mature and has sophisticated colors. Therefor, your loved one can use it on his or her office and always remembers you. Don’t you like that?! Scroll more to see how I made it so easy.

Things To Prepare

Actually this is my upcycled project; I used my previous Pumpkin Place Card and re-purpose it as a Valentine Paper Weight. So, upcycling project doesn’t have to be always using old materials or things, but you can also re-purposing your own old project and turn it into new DIY. But I will still explain to you from scratch on how I made the paper weight. For more details, here are the list of the things I used for my DIY Valentine‘s Gift Paper Weight:

Ice sticks
Wood glue
Black paint
Gold paint
Red sparkling pipe cleaner (or any other color of your favorite)

How To Make

It is a simple and super easy DIY Valentine you can give him or her. You can use different color of pipe cleaner that you know your Valentine would love. Let me share the step by step on how I made my Valentine’s Gift from re-purposing my old Thanksgiving project :

1.Gather a handful of popsicle and tie it with rubber band. For smaller pumpkin, cut the popsicle into two.

2.Apply some wood glue on top and bottom of the popsicle pumpkin and let it sit for while until it’s dry.

3.Paint the undone paper weight with black paint. Let it dry.

4.Paint upper and below side with gold paint. Let it dry.

5.Take a red sparkling pipe cleaner and tilt it around the paper weight with the shape of a heart on top. And your Valentine’s gift is done!

It is super quick and super easy to make. Be creative by adding some personal decoration to the paper weight, maybe some initials or symbol on the Valentine paper weight. So, what are you waiting for? You still have a week to try this DIY Valentine’s Gift Paper Weight. Happy crafting!

For more of my future Winter and Valentine posts, please follow me! And if you wanted to add my creations to your Pinterest boards, please follow me on Pinterest! Also find me on Instagram and Twitter!

For creative fellow bloggers, don’t forget to join “You’re The Star” Blog Hop and Happiness Is Homemade Link Party! Link your inspiring posts (anything, from recipes, home decor, DIYs, crafts, family, health to gardening) every Monday and Sunday. Get a change to be featured! I’m one of the co-host of You’re The Star blog hop for Creative Week and Happiness Is Homemade will choose the creative posts to be featured on Creative Features week and on Happiness Is Homemade. Please come and join the blog hop and I would love to see you there! Join and share the news!

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Mel

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