Thursday, February 3, 2011

Potato Print Valentines



I have been pondering an easy, fun way to create our love letter valentines to pass out...
Heart potato prints occurred to me ~ so we thought we would give it a go!

Here's how it goes

To begin
Slice your potato in half.
Press a strong cookie cutter in the potato and using a knife, cut in from the side up to the cookie cutter that is still in the potato ~ until the excess potato falls away and you are left with your shape.  (Thanks helpful reader for this tip!)


You can then carve out a handle on the backside of your potato or push a craft stick into the back ~ a better grip for easier stamping.


Paint your stamp (painting seems to work much better than dipping)...


Now for the fun part ~ time to get stamp happy!


We enjoyed using metallic paints


As well we painted our stamps with glue, stamped them onto our cards and shook on glitter. 


***


We spent our afternoon in a world of glitter and paint ~ a warm way to share in a winters day, while a blizzard swirled around the home.


The girls shared the task of filling in our love letters.
Teamwork all the way! (including the messy clean up ; )


Then of course we had to join that wonderful white world and taste the blizzard first hand!


Heres to glitter and rosy cheeks!

~ Shanti ~

37 comments:

  1. These are just lovely Shanti!
    xo
    Linda

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  2. They look great! And it looks like the activity was enjoyed by all.

    Have a lovely weekend.

    xx

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  3. A couple quick things to make your prep easier as well...
    Press a strong cookie cutter into the potato and using a knife, cut in from the side up to the cookie cutter that is still in the potato. That makes it a bit easier than trying to free hand it. The other tip is to push a craft stick into the back of the potato so you can have a handle. Picking up a sticky potato can cause it to slide around but the handle makes it more manageable. Thanks for the reminder. It will be a great Arts and crafts project for Fun Friday.

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  4. So sweet. LOVE that photo of the cards all propped up on the table and the girls absorbed in their work. Beautiful.

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  5. I plan to do this with my class next week...and Jude's cards for his classmates will also be handmade...hooray for the humble potato!

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  7. This brought back memories of carving potato stamps when my boys were little.It's a great idea for when we have our grandsons for the night Valentines weekend...thanks for sharing,and I love the red glitter!
    Rebecca

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  8. gave you a blog award today -- enjoy !
    xoxox

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  9. Oh, they are wonderful! I signed up for a Valentines exchange today, and I needed a little idea to get me started. The glitter ones are just my cup of tea!

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  10. These are so fun! I did them with the middle schoolers at the school I work at. They're response was, "Potato stamps? Woah man! That's ghetto!" :P

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  11. Your cards are very sweet. I just love that last photo though. Gorgeous!

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