Today is Valentine parties at my children's school. Of course my kids wanted to give their teachers something but what? That part was left up to me of course! I had some (full) frappuccino bottles that I decided I would alter and fill with Valentine M&M's. First you have to empty the frappu bottles of the liquid which my teenage daughter was happy to do.
empty frappu bottle with stickers still on
Next wash them and take off the stickers. Wait! You say there is sticky residue left and the expiration date still on the bottle? Never fear!
Spray bottles with Helmar acid free remover cleaner and wipe them with a soft towel. Took off the sticky residue and the date!
I needed three bottles for 3 teachers, 1 male, 2 female, so I decided to use different pieces from the Pink Paislee Cupid collection. I cut strips of paper to 8 7/8 x 2 1/2. I then took coordinating colors from textured cardstock I had laying around and cut strips of 8 1/2 by 1 and used border punches on them. I attached the border punches to the main strips with Helmar Quick Fix Runner. And attached the entire strips to the bottles using Helmar Craft Glue.
I colored images from Sew Many Cards to put on the strips. The images are digital so I was able to shrink them to the sizes I wanted before printing them out. I used copics to color the images. On the Hearts, I printed the image twice so I could cut one pair out and use clear Helmar Zapdots for dimension. I did the same thing with the balloon hearts the elephant is holding. I then attached the images to nestabilities shapes and attached the entire thing to the strip/bottle using Helmar Zapdots.
For the top of the lids, I used scallop circle Nestabilities on the textured cardstock that matched the borders. I then used Design Adhesive from ClearSnaps that I rubbed right on. I used three different colors of glitter from ClearSnaps ontop of the Design Adhesive.
I then decided to do one more little project using most of the same paper supplies.
See the chipboard in there? I covered it with the supplies shown and added a pad of paper inside it. To color the Sew Many Cards image (that I made a little bigger this time to fit the outside of the cover), I used the following copic colors and a gray prismacolor marker: 
I cut the Pink Pasilee paper bigger than my chipboard and then folded it over to the inside and glued it down with Helmar Craft Glue. The green textured cardstock I cut smaller than the chipboard and attached that to the inside. I attached the wide ribbon onto either piece of covered chipboard and made it met in the inside. I added some XOXOXO to the bottom of the elephant image with the Design Adhesive and sprinkled on some pink glitter. I popped up the balloons with Helmar ZapDots and popped up the entire image with Helmar Zapdots. I attached the pad of paper to the inside using the Helmar Craft Glue.
outside of tablet
inside
Supplies:
Helmar Acid Free Remover Cleaner
Helmar Quick Fix Runner
Helmar Craft Glue
Helmar ZapDots
Pink Paislee
ClearSnaps
Sew Many Cards images
Happy Valentines Day to you!
Amber Hillman
Helmar USA Design Team Member
