Valentine's Day Vignette and Tutorial

I just love Valentine's Day.

In creating my Valentine's Day vignette for my front entryway, I knew I wanted to spell out the word LOVE.  In my head I pictured using building blocks of some sort.  I searched through the house and couldn't figure out what to use.   After some thought,  I came up with the idea of creating paper boxes out of scrapbook paper.  

Then using my Silhouette machine I cut out the word love out of white vinyl from a template I purchased over Christmas when everything was 50% off at Silhouette.

I then made more paper boxes, in various sizes, out of Valentine's Day paper 

and filled a glass canister with them.

I tied a pink grosgrain ribbon that was from a Pottery Barn Kids 

gift my daughter received a few years ago (I always save ribbon).

I swapped out flowers and brought these from upstairs.  However, something still seemed to be missing.  I wanted to create a type of wreath.  I wanted something a little different.

That's when I came up with the idea of using an embroidery hoop I had and creating a wreath out of that. 

I used pink fabric I had from my daughter's room, and hand embroidered the word LOVE using a heart for the "O".  I then cut out two love birds out of hot pink felt and hand sewed those on as well using embroidery thread.  I cut off the excess fabric from around the hoop.  I hung it using tie-dyed ribbon and using a paper rose to hide where the loop screws together.

The perfect greeting for everyone who enters my home.

The boxes are really easy to make.  Here's all you have to do...

You start with your favorite scrapbook paper.  I used a 12" x 12" for my LOVE boxes and 6" x 6" for the smaller boxes in the canister.  The only rule is it must be a square piece of paper.

Then I folded the paper in a series of folds.  I thought it would be easier to show you "in person" rather than in just photos.  So, below is a step by step video tutorial on how to fold paper to create paper boxes...it's my very first video tutorial.  I hope you will check it out.

Hope to see you tonight at my Winter Blues Wednesday party that opens at 8pm EST.  

-Judy

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