Design by Night

As promised, here is another free downloadable Valentine that uses buttons. Maybe I will put a little dent into my large button stash. If you want to put your Valentine into an envelope I designed it to fit in a standard A7. What you will need: Color printer and cover stock paper Glue Buttons Xacto knife and ruler Click here to download the template as a PDF. Print the tags on card stock paper. Cut along the dotted lines to cut out the Valentine. Take your buttons and arrange them using the heart outline at the bottom of the card. After you have arranged the buttons in a heart shape glue them in place.

  As you may know, I have a large button collection. I have a particular weakness for button jars and have over a half a dozen of them. I am always trying to come up with crafts that use buttons. So I decided that this Valentine's day I would come up with a series of downloadable Valentine's using buttons. Here is the first one, a Valentine tag with button bobby pins. What you will need: Color printer and cover stock paper Bobby pins with a glue pad (I recently saw them at the local craft store but if you can't find them there, you can find them all over Etsy) E6000 Glue Buttons Xacto knife & ruler Hole punch Ribbon Click here to download the template as a PDF. Print the tags on card stock paper. Cut along the dotted lines and use a hole punch to make the circle in the top center of the tag. Take a dab of E6000 and put it on the glue pad. Glue the pad to the back of a button. Set aside and let it dry for 24 hours. When setting aside the bobby pin...