It's Valentine season, and with Lucy being in school for the first time we needed to increase the typical volume of cards being churned out. We used two easy techniques.

The Good 'Ol Toilet Paper Roll

A simple process of squeezing the roll into shape and using it as a stamp.

Tip: Cupcake cups make for an easy cleanup option with paint.

Lucy easily churned out 24 of these for her class.

Washi Tape

We covered big pieces of paper with washi tape. Lucy is very precise. I wonder where she gets that from?

Afterwards I cut the paper into strips to run through a paper punch. You could also easily just hand cut a bunch of hearts, but I happened to have this heart punch already. Also, Lucy can't really cut well yet and she could help more this way.

Cute little hearts.

Then we glued them onto folded paper stock.

The "scraps" made for a nice card, too.

xo Becky