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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Rockin' Valentine's Day Cards

Here at the Okui household it's all about the video game Rock Band 2. My son particularly is obsessed with the game. I find him making microphones and singing E-Pro. He even has a new nighttime ritual of brushing his teeth to "Eye of The Tiger", never saw that coming. So when it was time to make his Valentine cards, I knew just where to look for inspiration.

Supplies:
Hear Shaped Lollipops
White Card Stock
Scissors
Hole Punch
Double Stick Tape
Click on image to make it larger, right click, copy and save the clip art onto a document such as word. It's designed to fit on a landscape (11 x 8 1/2) page. Print out on heavy card stock.


Cut out the cards and punch a hole in the center of them, refer to picture.

Fold in the packaging of the lollipop and tape down. This will prevent it from showing once the card is attached.

Place the card onto the lollipop stick. Using double stick tape, attach the bottom corners of the guitar together. Rock out.

40 comments:

Amy @ Living Locurto said...

This is super cute! Thanks. I'll be sure to link over here. Love it:-)

Melissa said...

Now this is m kind of Valentine's card. Thanks for the link!

Kems said...

nice valentine's day card! i hope we get one from evan. =oP i still have "eye of the tiger" stuck in my head, even though it's been a week since your family last came over to play it. it's fun getting rock band keychains from him. =o)

Marisa said...

This is fabulous! What a great idea. What did you use to make the guitar graphic?

zakkalife said...

Marisa@make*happy,

I created the guitar in Adobe Illustrator.

Marie {Make and Takes} said...

So so so cute!

And I love the new look. Super fun and fresh!

Kit said...

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Jen @ Fun Family Tips said...

Very creative and cute! My little man is really into guitars now and I am so over the standard character cards! I'll be sure to link!

JB said...

I absolutely love these! So much better than the lame-o Barbie valentines I handed out as a kid...

Amanda.Sedeno said...

I LOVE THIS! I have been searching for this exact thing all week and have came up with nothing as cute as this! Thanks so much for posting, this is going to be a hit!

Unknown said...

This is really cute :)I love your ideas, and we love making things you've posted at our house :)

zakkalife said...

Amanda,

You're welcome, glad I could help :)

Lorie said...

Very cute!! And I think my son will love them. It is always so hard to find something that boys like to give out for Valentine's Day!

ILikePaperCutting said...

Thanks for sharing. Hope you have a Rocking Valentine's day too.

Jenn said...

I love it! Very boy friendly. My boy's refuse to hand out mushy valentines.

Johan Donald said...

What a great idea on this Valentine’s Day!!! Thanks for sharing..

Randi~Dukes and Duchesses said...

So cute - thanks for sharing! My little guy is going to use these.

Jennifer W. said...

Thank you so much - this was just what I was looking for to go with our V-day theme this year!

Pastiche said...

Aha! A cool boys' Valentine craft. Linked in from Valentine Crafts You Can Make. I'm groovin' on the guitar printable.

Ashlee said...

These are awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Danna said...

Thank you for sharing this! We made these over the weekend for my son's school party. Very cute!

Thanks
Danna

Sharla said...

Totally using this for my 2 boys. Thanks so much!!

Jenn @ Delicious Ambiguity said...

Hi! Just wanted to say that I love your blog and thanks for the freebies. I linked to them on mine:
http://delicious-ambiguity-nennyk.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-more-of-best-valentine-cards-gift.html
Cheers!-Jenn

Kristen said...

I just made these for my son's second grade Valentine's party. Thank you for the freebie!

Jeanelle said...

Just wanted to post a THANK YOU! I printed and cut out a lot of guitars for 3rd grade and 1st grade classes and I am happy to say they were a HUGE hit! THANKS!!!!

zakkalife said...

Jeanelle,

You're welcome! I'm glad it was a success.

Christina said...

Thank you for sharing! I used your idea with a bag topper that says "You Rock!" from Fancy Pants Prints to make goodie bags for classmates. The two ideas seemed made for each other.

Jenn @ Delicious Ambiguity said...

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**** April **** said...

Can you help me? I'd love to do these for my son and I right click and copied it... but it is printing out COMPLETELY distorted and all pixelated! :( My son plays guitar and didn't even want to do Valentines until he saw these and I can't get it to work! :( HELP!

zakkalife said...

April,

click on the image so its larger, then right click, copy, save.

hope that helps

Room to Inspire said...

I posted a couple of your awesome Valentine ideas on my blog today - including this one! Your blog is fabulous. I am your newest subscriber!

Chelsea

willowday said...

I love how cool and hip your Valentine's art. Well done and fresh! This would really be fun for the slightly older Valentine! g at www.willowday.com

Unknown said...

I found this on Pinterest - too cute, thanks for sharing the printable!

Kaysi @ Keeping it Simple said...

This is awesome!!!!

jessicakean said...

how many guitars should be able to fit on a page?

zakkalife said...

3

J9nKidz said...

Just wondering if you might have a PDF File version of these?! They're just perfect for my daughter! She'd go nuts for these!? Unfortunately our printer will only print this type file on a photo size paper no matter what I do in the settings ;( If not, no worries it's fab & I'm happy to have found your space here anyway :D !!!! Happy Valentines!

zakkalife said...

Hi Jeanine,

I'm sorry, I don't have a PDF for this template. :( Unfortunately, blogger doesn't support PDF's like Wordpress does. I'm in the process of working on that. Hopefully by next year, I'll have all my templates transferred to PDF's. It's something that I've been wanting to do for a long time.

Unknown said...

Awww this Valentines day wishes card totally rocks! I love it. This is perfect for music lover special someone or lover. Thanks for the inspiration and link.

Cheers and hugs xxx
Marilyn
http://easyday.snydle.com/valentines-day-wishes-and-messages.html

J9nKidz said...

Thanks so much Jessica for responding! I really wasn't expecting that :D I also had no idea of the difference! Thx again. Happy Valentines Day!

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