Thursday, February 9, 2012

52 Reasons I Love You

This is a really cute Valentine's Day gift idea I saw on Pinterest. Here is the original idea. It's easy, but took a little bit of time because I am a perfectionist, and I put my own spin on it. That's the beauty of it!



Materials:
-One deck of 52 playing cards
-Glue stick
-Double sided tape
-Pair of scissors
-Clip art, stickers, pictures
-Card template (optional)
Before we begin, you must know that some of this project turned out to be "sheer dumb luck" (as said by Professor McGonagall!) For example, I know that I would buy a pack of red playing cards, so I designed a card template in Microsoft Word with the colors red and black. I didn't actually have a deck of cards at the time to measure how big the outside of the card was. I seriously just eyeballed it, and it came out nearly spot on perfect in size (I know, I am amazing).

A template for the back of the cards is not required. In fact, if you want one, I will send you mine free of charge--just email me! If you make a template, your project will turn out much neater, and I highly recommend it.

1. Create a template for the backs of the cards. On each template, you will write a different reason why you love that person. Print out 6 pages of these, if you do 9 templates per page. So for example, here are some of mine:



2. Cut out each template.


3. Next (optional), decorate your templates with clip art, stickers, pictures, glitter, whatever you want! I did a picture on each one, just to make them cute and funny.

4. Take 2 pieces of double sided tape and affix each piece to the top and bottom of the back of a playing card (not the number side).


5. Next, use your glue stick on all the other parts of the card around the tape.




6. Attach your template to the back of your card. You may need to smooth out the wrinkles/bubbles, but this is easy to do with your finger. (That's what she said! LOL)


7. Repeat until all cards have templates on them!


Ta-da!

74 comments:

  1. If you dont mind me asking, could you tell me how you made the templates on word? I got to the part where you pick a template but i cant figure out where to go from there.

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  2. Hi Jennifer!

    I actually made my own template from scratch. I opened up a new Word document. First, I inserted a shape (a rectangle) and colored it red. Then I inserted a black rectangle on top of that one. I framed the black rectangle with a white border. Finally, I inserted a text box on top of the black rectangle, and turned the font white and bolded it. Once I had one done, I copied and pasted it multiple times and printed out a few sheets. I hope this helps! :)

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  3. This helped me a lot! Thank you so much for the help!

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  4. what size did you do the template, if you don't mind me asking?

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  5. Each card was about 2 1/2" long and 1 3/4" wide (it was the approx. measurement of the colored part of the playing card). :)

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  6. Shelly, could you email me the template? casey.mull@yahoo.com

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  11. Could you send me the template please? gogojunior@hotmail.com Thank you!!

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  12. Hey, could you please email me the template? samira_suljevic@yahoo.com
    Thank you!

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  13. Hello! Can u pls send me a template as well? Thank you so much! Lindsay :)
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  14. Hey I would like to do this for my boyfriend can you please email me the template as well. Thank you so mcuh! My email is: dstuck6617@bhsdocs.buhlerschools.org

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  16. could you please sen me the template. Im having issues trying to create it. Thank you.
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  17. If is not to much to ask, could you please send me the templates? my husband is leaving in 2 days and he is going to be out of the country for Valentine's day, I would like to surprise him with this awesome project! nanita-tierna@hotmail.com

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  25. could you email me the template? srice0074@kctcs.edu

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  26. I would also love to do this project and would really appreciate if you could send me the template. My email is Megan.macdonald@fredericton.ca. Thank you kindly :)

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  27. Can you send me your template as well alynnholz@yahoo.com

    Thanks!

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  28. Can you please send me the template my email is babittner89@marianuniversity.edu. I have been tryin to make a template and just cant get it right!

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  46. Could you please send me the Valentine playing card template? They are adorable!!
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  47. This is SO cute!! I have seen this idea for a while now and this is the best one I've seen! Could you pleeease send me the Template that you created?? I would be soo appreciative!! :)
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    Thank you so much!!

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  48. Shelly... Could you please send me the Valentine playing card template???
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    Thanks!

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  65. This is an awesome example and exactly what I'm wanting to do, but im having a little trouble figuring out how to do it, could you please send it to me? draper.hannah95@gmail.com

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    Thanks!!

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