Valentine’s gift – Decor Craft Design

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

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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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Be lovely creative!

Mel

DIY Valentine’s Gift Upcycled Mug

Valentine’s gift for men might be the toughest for a DIY Valentine’s gift. But I have an idea of cheap and easy Valentine’s gift for men. Cheap because it’s an upcycling DIY and easy because it was only took me some simple steps to make. It also works actually for men and women, because it’s a multi-purpose holder of upcycled mug that I made into a DIY Valentine’s Gift.

It can hold some cute heart pens, maybe brushes or anything on his or her working desk. The color is mature and has a simple look, great and work well with the rest of his or her stationeries on professional working station. Yes, professional, don’t you like the word? Anyway, find out more on supplies and tutorial for my DIY Valentine’s Gift Upcycled Mug for him or her.

Things To Prepare

This is an upcycled project, so you should find similar mug to work with. The mug patter can be anything, colorful patter, or solid color or even white plain mug. Once you’ve done with it, the pattern or the mug’s color will be focal point of this Valentine’s multipurpose holder. Don’t worry about ugly picture or pattern on your old mug; as you can see my mug has no beauty look on it, but after it’s finished…wow! Therefor, be more details, here are the list of 3 things I used for my DIY Valentine Valentine’s Gift From Upcycled Mug:

Old mug ( any color or pattern, as long as it’s not black )
Black acrylic paint
Black marker

How To Make

It is a simple and super easy DIY Valentine you can give him or her. You can draw a heart in different way you like. Make use of your creativity to make your Valentine gift more personal. Let me share step by step on how I made my Valentine’s Gift from re-purposing old mug :

1. Make sure your old mug is cleaned and free from oil. Draw a heart shape by using a black marker. Draw it in two outlines to have a heart shape with the mug’s color as the pattern of the heart. So the the two heart lines work as a frame. If you’re not fond of drawing, you can use a heart frame shape paper, stick it on the mug, then continue to the next step.

2. Paint the rest of the mug, only outer side of the mug with black acrylic paint. Leave it to dry. And it’s done! Can you believe it? As simple as that!

It is super quick and super easy to make. Super cheap tooo! Now, if you want to make your multi-purpose mug holder to be more interesting Valentine’s gift, add in some cute love stationeries or some love lollipops or even some chocolates in it and wrap it with clear plastic wrap with a Valentine’s gift tag and maybe a little red ribbon. Voila, DIY Valentine’s gift from upcycled mug is ready for him or for her!

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Be lovely creative!

Mel

DIY Flower Diffuser Jar For Valentine’s Gift

Valentine’s day is coming and some gift ideas would become great inspirations to give your loved ones. DIY gifts always great for Valentine’s gift because it’s more personal and more effort of making it yourself. Maybe my DIY flower diffuser jar would be a wonderful Valentine’s gift. It’s easy to make and inexpensive DIY Valentine. Let me describe all supplies you need and how to make this flower diffuser jar. The twist of this flower diffuser jar is that I added a red color to the essential oil that will travel up (capillary process) to the white flower crepe paper and change the white into pink shade.

Things To Prepared

Used jar
White spray paint
White crepe paper
White yarn
Essential oil
Red food coloring
Heart shape sticker

How To Make

Attach a heart shape sticker to the cleaned jar on two sides.
Spray paint the jar with white color and leave it dry. Peel of the heart shape sticker once it dry.
Make a flower out of some white crepe paper and tie the bottom with a white yarn. leave the yarn in a length of the jar’s height.
Give some red food coloring to the essential oil of your choice, unless it’s already a colored essential oil.
Pour the colored essential oil to the white heart jar.
stick the flower crepe paper on top of the jar and let the colored essential oil seep through the yarn and up to the white flower crepe paper.
If you want the gift receiver to pour the essential oil himself / herself and enjoy the diffusing process and capillary process of the color; then put the colored essential oil in a separated secured little bottle.

It’s pretty and give a therapeutic good smell in one’s house, would that be great as Valentine’s gift? You can choose your loved ones’ favorite essential oil and color to make this flower diffuser jar. So, have you thought of someone that would love your DIY flower diffuser jar as a Valentine’s gift as much as he / she loves you?

For more of my future Winter and coming 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!

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Diffuse your creativity!

Mel