I Heart U

With a couple supplies, some candy hearts, and wallet size photos . . . I altered a candy hearts box to make a sweet Valentine’s Day gift.

Supplies:
1. 2 boxes of Brach’s Hearts conversation candies
2. 1 piece of patterned paper
3. 1 pkg of small black letter stickers
4. 1 yard of ribbon and 1pkg of white cross stitch floss ( I love the American Crafts ribbon line)
5. Tools: scissors, glue dots, adhesive, hole punch & lighter (the lighter is optional and it is used to burn the edges of your ribbon to keep it from fraying)

Instructions Front:
1. Open up 1 box of conversation hearts and eat a couple of your favorite color (orange are my fav)
2. Cut out the (To: From: heart) on the back of the box and punch a hole in the top right corner *If you are going to make more than 1 box I would recommend using the heart as a template to make more hearts from another piece of patterned paper
3. Cut your patterned paper 1 ½ inches x 6 ½ and adhere it to the top of your heart box and wrap it all the way around until the ends of the paper match up
4. Tie ribbon around your box on top and in the center of your patterned paper making sure your knot is at the front top right corner
5. Add your tag by tying white floss around the knot of your ribbon
6. For dimension I use a glue dot and placed a conversation heart on the bottom left corner. The hearts are really thick so I just bit one in ½ (sounds crazy but let me know if you know of a better way to cut a conversation heart :)

Instructions Back:
1. Adhere your wallet size photo to the back tucking it underneath your ribbon *Use removable adhesive so that you can use your picture for your wallet
2. Cut out a heart from your leftover ribbon and adhere it to the top right corner on top of your ribbon (this is where the lighter comes in handy because once you cut a shape out from ribbon it can fray very easy)
3. Add letter stickers and use the rest of your ribbon as a fun photo corner