Valentine's Day with Brittany: DIY gift idea for your friends!

Hi Everyone!

It's Brittany and I'm back with another Valentine's Day post for my Valentine's Day Segment. Today, I am bringing you a cheap, easy gift you can make for your friends for Valentine's Day. You may have some of these things in your house already and other stuff you can buy at places like Target and Dollar Tree. Let's get started!!!

Things You Need:
-little brown paper bags/white favour boxes
-glitter (colours of your choice)
-glue
-paintbrush
-heart template
-pencil
-scrap piece of paper
-ribbon or clothes pin (or whatever you want to close the bag with)
-gift tags (if you are giving gifts to friends)

Step 1:
Take your heart template (I made mine from a scrap piece of paper) and place it on your little brown paper bag (or white favour box). Lightly trace around the heart stencil.

Step 2:
Take your white glue and a paint brush and generously spread the glue all around the heart shape. Be sure to go over top of the pencil lines so that it gets covered with glitter and doesn't show.

Step 3:
Pour some glitter into the centre of the heart and lightly tap on the bottom of the bag to move the glitter around. I recommend doing this over a piece of scrap paper as glitter tends to get everywhere. Do this until you cannot see anymore glue. Then dump the excess onto the scrap piece of paper. You can put the excess back in the container once all your bags are decorated.

Step 4:
Put it aside to dry. Do this to the rest of your little bags (or favour boxes). Let them dry.

Step 5:
Once everything is dry, you can open them up and fill them with whatever you would like to give. I have those hair ties that don't leave kinks in your hair, a lip balm and a little packet of chocolates. I also plan on making little cakes to go in my white favour boxes.

Step 6:
Once you have everything in your little bags, fold the top over and close it shut with whatever you have chosen to close it with. I didn't get a picture of it, but I closed it with a clothes pin. I also attached a tag with each friend's name on it.

So there you have it. Simple and easy, but also really shows you care. If you want to make multiples, like for your child's classmates, you could just put the same thing in each bag and then close them with a clothes pin or sticker. That way, your child can just hand them out to each classmate and not have to worry about missing someone. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this DIY for Valentine's Day! If you try this DIY, be sure to leave me comments and pictures in the comments section below. Until next time, Happy Crafting! xo