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Make Thoughtful Cards Out of Paint Chips Using Paint Names

I have been making cards, booklets, and posters out of paint chips for years. What is original about my idea (and I’ve never seen it done by anyone else), is that I pay attention to the paint name on the chip. 

All you need is a hole punch, scissors (if you want to cut the names into hearts for a card), and fasteners.

For 231 pages of DIY Valentine’s go here: truebluemeandyou.com/search/hearts

****For Kid friendly gifts just use kid friendly paint names, which are about 99% of paint names****

I have made cards with wine names, vacation themes, movie themes, and the list goes on and on. As I was picking up paint, I noticed that Home Depot had some great paint color names for Valentine’s Day and Galantine’s Day. All you need are free paint chips and cheap fasteners for the booklet. You can write on every page if you’d like, like the DIY Playing Card Valentine’s Day gift “52 Reasons I Love You” here.

These are the cards I used for my booklet:

Heart Breaker

BFF

Heart to Heart

Epiphany

Stolen Kiss

XOXO

Joie de Vivre

I Heart Potion

Lover’s Knot

Night Music

Love Poem

Lovebirds

I Pink I Can

Love at First Sight

Infatuation

Diva Glam

Kiss Goodnight

Magic Scent

Romantic Poetry

Secret Scent

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DIY No Bake Turkish Mosaic Cake 

This Turkish dessert has a prep time of 5 minutes, and only uses 5 ingredients. What holds it together is crushed cookies or wafers. The chocolate flavor comes from cocoa powder.

This is a quick and easy recipe for kids to help make as they can use their hands to mash all the ingredients together.

Get the recipe for this No Bake Turkish Mosaic Cake from the Navage Patch here.

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DIY or BUY Chomping Crocodile Sweatshirt

DIY or BUY Chomping Crocodile Sweatshirt

GIF by me using my favorite program: ezgif.com/maker

BUY: $29.95 Chomping Crocodile Sweatshirt is only available in kids’ sizes here for $29.95. 

DIY: Use fabric paint, vinyl, fabric, possibly a really thick felt, to make your own Chomping Animal/Monster Sweatshirt. It’s also good for an understated Halloween Costume.

For a large archive of excellent DIY sweatshirt restyles go here: truebluemeandyou.com/tagged/sweatshirt

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DIY 30 Valentine’s Day Origami Crafts

I like this Valentine’s Day Roundup from Gathering Beauty because it came out today, which means all the links work.

Find all the links to these 30 Valentine’s Day Origami Crafts at Gathering Beauty here.

Here are more of the 30 origami projects below:

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DIY Interlocking LEGO Heart Pendants. You can buy the Coupling Plate 2X2 or design ID 3176 (official lego name) various places like here for $.17, shipping $4.95 or this looks like a place to try here: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3176. Other suggestions in the comments’ section. Tutorial from Instructables here.

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DIY Dinsosaur “I Chews You!” Valentine 

All I can think of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are: “Please Don’t Go. We’ll Eat You Up. We Love You So”. 

For hundreds of Valentine’s Day DIYs check out my other blog truebluemeandyou.com/tagged/hearts

Find this DIY Dinsosaur “I Chews You!” Valentine Tutorial from Lovely Indeed here.

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How to Turn a Dresser into a Custom Dollhouse

The tutorial covers:

Painting the interior dollhouse

Dollhouse floors

Making dollhouse walls out of foamcore

Decorating your dollhouse

Find the tutorial for How to Upcyle a Dresser into a Custom Dollhouse from Martha Stewart here.

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Crayola Finally Launches Flesh Colored Crayons For Everyone.

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DIY 6 IKEA Kids’ Forts #UseWhatYouHave 

From IKEA Russia:

Build a house with them. Yes, yes, such as in your childhood, which you built from stools, blankets and everything that came to hand. ⠀ We have prepared instructions for creating houses - from the classic VIGVÅM to the unexpected NORÅ. ⠀ Build houses according to our projects, create your own and upload photos using the hashtag #явдомикеикеа.

Do not miss your moment of glory!

You can find the forts by @ikea_rus on Instagram here (1st seen at dezeen here).

Castle Fort

4 chairs, coat stand, 2 sheets, 16 clothespins, string lights, rug, and 3 pillows

This Castle Fort is by @sevara_verdieva on Instagram here.

Cave Fort

chair, a sheet, 8 books, string lights, 3 pillows, and tape.

Camping Tent

clothing rack, 2 sheets, 8 books, 10 clothespins, string lights, and maybe a $5 pressa hanging dryer octopus below.

Tent Fort

coat stand, 2 sheets, 8 books, 10 binder clips, rope, string lights, and 3 pillows.

House Tent

table, sheets, 10 clothespins, 8 books, lantern, stuffed animal.

The Fortress

sofa, 2 sheets, 10 clothespins,3 pillows, and a throw.

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3 Ingredient Flourless Fluffernutter Cookies

Don’t have marshmallow cream? From Hip2Save:

If you have marshmallows, you can combine them with light corn syrup to make your own marshmallow creme, according to SpoonUniversity.com.

Find the recipe for Flourless Fluffernutter Cookie Recipe from Hip2Save here.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup marshmallow cream

1 large egg

DIRECTIONS

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prep a sheet pan with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.

Use a fork to mix together peanut butter and egg.

Gently fold in marshmallow cream so that you can still see streaks of marshmallow.

Scoop cookie dough onto pan using small or medium sized cookie scoop. Bake for about 11-13 minutes, until slightly browned. Makes about 12 large cookies. Enjoy!

Here’s a video showing how easy these cookies are to make:

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This is an easy DIY where supervised where kids could make their own abstract fabric.

DIY Faux Batik Fabric Using Flour

You can also use PVA glue to make faux batik fabric, but using a paste of flour and water is so much cheaper. 

All you need to make Faux Batik Fabric is:

white cotton fabric

fabric paints OR acrylic paints with fabric medium

plain flour 

squeeze bottle

Find the tutorial for DIY Faux Batik Fabric from Alisa Burke here.

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How to Make Mason Jar Ice Cream

This recipe is by Amelia Nierenberg for the New York Times. It is so easy that kids could make it.

You can find the Ice Cream Made in a Mason Jar from the New York Times here.

From the NYTs: Basic Mason Jar Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 cup heavy cream

1 ½ tablespoons granulated sugar

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

A pinch of salt

A 16 oz Mason jar, of course. Yield: About three servings.

Steps

1. Pour the cream, sugar, vanilla and salt into the jar, and screw on the lid tightly.

2. Shake vigorously, until the cream thickens and almost doubles in size, which should take about five minutes. You’ll know you’re done when the mixture doubles in volume and is about the consistency of brownie batter.

3. Freeze for at least 3 hours. Then eat. You’re welcome.

Variations

Berry Ice Cream. If you want the flavor mixed-in, blend ½ cup of fresh berries and add it to the mixture before you freeze it. (You can also cheat: a tablespoon of jam will work.) If you prefer chunks, cut up the berries. Voilà.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream. Add 1 teaspoon of peanut butter to the mixture and shake. If you want the chocolate blended in, squeeze in 1 teaspoon of syrup. But if you’re going for a marbled effect, swirl in the syrup at the end and give your mixture a quick stir with a spoon.

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Earl Grey Tea Ice Cream. Add 1 teaspoon each of lemon juice and honey. To infuse the tea flavor, take ½ cup of the cream. Heat it, and steep two bags of Earl Grey tea. Remove them. When the cream cools, add it to the jar and shake.

Chunky Chocolate and Nut Ice Cream. The nuts are easy: Add 1 tablespoon of whatever kind of nuts you choose. (Pecans are buttery and yummy. Just saying.) Add chocolate pieces. A note: Mini-chips will work better than chunks. You’re only making a little bit, after all.

Rosemary Olive Oil Ice Cream. Whoa, right? Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, which will make the ice cream extra creamy. As with the Earl Grey version, heat up half the cream and add four sprigs of fresh rosemary. Strain, cool, add, shake, freeze and eat.

The possibilities are endless. For caramel ice cream, just chop candies into the mix. For banana, blend it first. Coconut is a no-brainer, but make sure the pieces are small and fine. (A pinch of salt on top brings out the flavors.) It will be delicious. It’s ice cream, after all.

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DIY Cheap and Easy Beaded Daisy Chain Bracelet

I have seen a lot of cheap beaded spring/summer jewelry (seed beads, pony beads, plastic beads, alphabet beads) being sold for high prices. 

For over 650 DIY Bracelets of all kinds for all skill levels go here: truebluemeandyou.com/tagged/bracelet

This is the really easy Beaded Daisy Chain Bracelet, posted in late April 2020, with a sliding knot closure from Honestly WTF below. 

Who What Wear calls it “crafty jewelry” or jewelry you’d make at camp. I’ve posted some of their retail picks at the very bottom. Here’s what they say about this trend here:

Consisting of mismatched colorful beads, charms, flowers, letters, and more, this jewelry trend can be defined as many things, but my favorite descriptor is nostalgic. 

Find the DIY Beaded Daisy Chain Bracelet Tutorial from Honestly WTF here.

Here are 4 of the picks from Who What Wear below.