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The Toymaker

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We made some sweet little paper toys from The Toymaker site yesterday. Artist Marilyn Scott-Waters creates beautiful drawings for these free and downloadable paper toys.  There are many others available including animals, fairies, gift boxes, pinwheels, mini-books and more. If you haven’t seen this site, go check it out. I think these would be great to take on a trip. Just print them out, pack them up with scissors and a glue stick, and you have instant toys. As you can see, my kids couldn’t keep their hands off of them!

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Paper Doilies

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Here are today’s projects. Doily cut-out cards and flour sack kitchen towels painted with doily shapes.

For the towels, I took some spray adhesive to attach the doily to the towel, cut out a heart for the outside and taped that down around it. Now I used red spray paint, but I think it would have been better to use a stencil brush and fabric paint. I also think a circular doily would have been prettier, but these were all I could find in the store today (and I don’t like that they sort of look like a face). When I washed the towels, the paint faded a bit, but the basic shape remains. I think the doily idea would work nicely for a tablecloth as well.

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Valentine’s Day Cards

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No store-bought cards this year! Make a special card for family and friends with photos of loved ones.

You’ll find the printable templates below for use with 8 1/2″x 11″ card stock. With an exacto knife and a cutting mat, you can cut out as many hearts as you’d like and insert photos. I printed my card on pink card stock and added an additional half size piece of card stock behind the photograph so that it would look neat when you open the card. I just glued it in place. One tip on folding card stock is to score it before folding (I used the tip of my closed scissors and a ruler to score the inside of the card). I re-sized a photo to 2″ wide by 1 3/4″ tall. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Card with Three Hearts

Card with Many Hearts

If you make a card and would like to share it, please add it to the Make It Monday Flickr group here.