I just wanted to show everyone what I made this year! Now I'm no Martha Stewart but I'm determined as hell whenever I set my eyes on baking or making something crafty. Unfortunately, I planned on making baked goods and making a whatever card this year. The whatever card turned into my pride and joy after I ended up modifying the design a gazillion times.
Without further ado here are my Valentine's Day crafts. Sorry about the picture quality I didn't have time to snap a photo with my DSLR.
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| Chocoalates that I melted into my new mold |
So about a week ago I found some really cute Wilton Heart Chocolate Mold at Michaels and since I had a 40% coupon I snapped up these bad boys in a heart beat. Here's what it looks like from the Michael's website.
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| The chocolate molds I bought |
I'l be honest, I actually have a fear of melting chocolate ever since I burnt some white chocolate chips in the past. The chocolate was over melted but this time I screwed up my courage and gave it a go. My chocolates came out beautifully and I had no problems with the chocolate cracking when removing them from the molds. There were a a few air bubbles but they were unnoticeable anyways. With the guidance and wisdom of Saori I managed to make cute chocolates.
I was ambitious this year and decided to melt some white chocolate and sprinkle some crushed tea biscuits and placed them in the freezer for about 25 minutes. When the chocolates had cooled down and formed, I melted some milk chocolate and poured it over. For some of the chocolates, I added a fourth layer of dark chocolate. Yeah, it got complicated pretty fast! I'm just kicking myself for not taking more photos of them. I made about 24 pieces of chocolate so it took more or less approximately 2 hours all together.
Now onto my pride and joy which I didn't really even plan for ahead of time. A Legend of Zelda themed card to go along with the copy of Majora's Mask.
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| My card and copy of Majora's Mask |
I'm really happy with how my card turned out. I found this amazing tutorial on Instructibles called Zelda Pop-Up Valentine Heart Card by fungus amungus It was really easy to follow and I recommend also reading Pixelated popup card by kate12345 for a few extra steps to make the heart pop up easier.
But this is how the card looks originally from the website.
I loved how the heart and the quote looked but I was unhappy with how the background looked and so my obsession with modifying this card occurred. I probably could have just edited the card on photoshop but I'm absolute rubbish at editing images online.
This card is exactly what I wanted to make but with the design that I modified.. So with the card above as my guide I just took some yellow construction paper cute out the outline of the chest glued it on. Took some light brown and white construction paper to make shaded areas and my most trusted companion the permanent marker to make the black outline.
Here's the front of my card again so you don't have to scroll up.
Success! I love how my card turned out and I couldn't stop ogling my card. A part of me was tempted to just keep it for myself haha. Anyways, here's the envelope that I made to go along with it.
And that's all folks! Until Next Time.
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| The stock photo from instructables |
I loved how the heart and the quote looked but I was unhappy with how the background looked and so my obsession with modifying this card occurred. I probably could have just edited the card on photoshop but I'm absolute rubbish at editing images online.
So I rolled up my sleeves and prepared myself to manually edit the image with more construction paper. I took black construction paper and cut it down to the size of the card, cut out the shape of the heart and box where the text was and just glued it over. Then I took some white paper cut out a little border and glued it on. Now here's the important part, take a permanent marker and a ruler and just outline the border that you just cut out to make a text box. Then glue any coloured construction paper to the back to finish the card.
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| Another shot of the finished product of the card! |
That took a lot of patience and cutting but I like how it turned out. I added a little white box so that I could write a little message as well. And now let me show you how the front of the card turned out.
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| The front of the card |
Tada! So I was just planning to leave the front the card empty but it just looked so plain and ugly that I had to do something about it. I looked on google for some some inspiration and saw two that gave me the idea. One of them was the Legend of Zelda Card by Adam Bing that was featured on Kotaku and other gaming websites.
The second card that inspired me was Starleaf-Creations Legend of Zelda Valentine .
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| Custom made card by Adam Bing via Albotas on tumblr |
The second card that inspired me was Starleaf-Creations Legend of Zelda Valentine .
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| Custom made card by Starleaf-Creations on Deviantart |
This card is exactly what I wanted to make but with the design that I modified.. So with the card above as my guide I just took some yellow construction paper cute out the outline of the chest glued it on. Took some light brown and white construction paper to make shaded areas and my most trusted companion the permanent marker to make the black outline.
Here's the front of my card again so you don't have to scroll up.
Success! I love how my card turned out and I couldn't stop ogling my card. A part of me was tempted to just keep it for myself haha. Anyways, here's the envelope that I made to go along with it.
A very plain brown card with a pixelated heart from my failed attempt at making the 3D popup heart earlier. At that point I was exhausted and just wanted a cute envelope that wasn't difficult to make.
And that everyone was my Valentine's Day Project!
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| All my little projects that didn't feel so little! |
And that's all folks! Until Next Time.
-April
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