Valentines Boxes

When I was in elementary school, we would always make the funnest Valentine's Day boxes. I think we usually used boxes from home, or perhaps we used Kleenex boxes; I can't remember for sure. Whatever we used, I remember it being so much fun! I liked to think I was creative back then. haha.

Well, one weekend I just happened to have two empty tissue boxes that needed thrown out. I looked at the opening and realized how perfect they were for Valentines boxes. So, I gathered Heath and Lucy, and lots of crafty supplies, and we sat down on the living room floor to make our V-day boxes. I would work on Lucy's and Heath would make ours (mine and his).

We started with the empty boxes. They were the vertical boxes, like this one.


Both boxes were designed for Christmas - one was red with reindeer on it and the other was green with ornaments. So, we chose to wrap them in paper. I wrapped mine, like a present, in red paper. Heath wrapper his in white paper.

I left the oval opening in mine; I just removed the plastic. Heath decided to go a different route and covered his top opening (defeating the whole Kleenex box purpose; but anyway...). Then he put some decor, including a 'lips' sticker.

As you can see, he went all elementary school on us and put the 'H + C' on it too. :) It made me smile. So how does he access his valentines?

Of course, he made a real mail box.

It included a black door and he tried gluing a sweetheart for the handle; but, it kept sliding off. So, I busted out the glue gun for him and it stuck.

I decided to do more of a collage style. I had a lot of these little mulberry scraps. I got them for scrap booking and hadn't really used a lot. So, I decided to overlay them, gluing them on with good'ole Elmer's.

With the red paper behind, it came out really neat. This is what it looked like when it was dry.

For the opening, I needed to make it look more 'finished'. So, although it didn't match perfectly, I decided to trim it with sweethearts.

Here are the finished boxes. They are ready to be filled with candy and sweet nothings. :)

This was a really fun project. Lucy wasn't able to help much; she really doesn't even color yet. She just chews on the markers or crayons. So, she played with the paper and then fell asleep. Heath and I had fun though. It is always nice to do something on a winter day, besides watch TV or clean.

I was really happy that he indulged me too. What a sweet guy I have! And, what a cute v-day mail box! :)

This is one tradition that I would LOVE to continue! I recommend it for any mommies out there - and, to be honest, anyone else who wants to be creative!