photo valentines

We knocked out the other two kids' Valentines today. 

I ended up going with Candi Gershon's genius "peeps" valentines I mentioned in my last post after finding the Peeps 50% off.  I also scored on Pop Rocks at the Dollar Store of all places while there for something completely different.  They were in assorted 3-packs.  I was originally going to do them as I did for the Fiskars' site, but Kaylen was bummed that only Logan would have photos on his.  This girl loves to be in front of a camera.  So I modified the design to include a photo for her, too.

I took photos of both kids composed flush left with a white sheet behind them.  For the Pop Rocks, I measured the width of the candy and as tall as I could go without covering up the logo to size the photo.  I added a text block to the left the same size.  Then when printed, fold in half and staple once in the right seam of the candy.

For the Peeps, I measured the front of the package down to the top of the word Peeps.  I added a little to the width of the package.  This was my photo size.  Then I added a text box the same size to the top and added my text upside down.  This way once printed and cut, I can fold the card over the top of the candy and staple once in the top seam.  It takes a while to get everything set up in the beginning, but then the assembly is a snap.  I printed out their sentiments onto cardstock and punched out with a Fiskars speech bubble punch.  In hindsight I'd probably make the speech bubbles a different color instead of using a foam dot to make them "pop". 

Since I printed the cards out on photo paper, the kids used a red permanent marker to add the names so we didn't need to worry about smearing.  It is also easiest to fill in the names before stapling onto candy. 

Comments

[Sarah Crowder]

I love these but still can't get over: chocolate covered peeps?! I had no idea!

[Erin]

Wow, I love the way these turned out!! The talking bubbles are so perfect here! Love the photos too :).

[Jeanette]

Love this idea and funny enough my kids names are Logan and Katelyn, kind of wish I would have went with Kaylen since it's not as common and we did consider it.

[kylee]

Did you put the picture on a word document?