How to Make a Pixy Stix Valentine
Here's a sweet idea for Valentine's Day. Create handmade cards for friends, loved ones and teachers that you've suspended on colorful Pixy Stix. Once the holiday is over, the recipients can eat the granulated sugar candy from the straw as a special treat.
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Things You'll Need
- Cardstock
- Pixy Stix
- Patterned paper
- Sharp scissors
- Adhesives
- Embellishments
- Glitter
- Pens, sticker letters and rubber stamps
- Tissue and ribbon
Instructions
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Trim pieces of red, pink, white or silver cardstock into shapes like hearts, stars, circles or simple squares. Measure against a Pixy Stix to make the shapes about half as tall.
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Cut a piece of decorative paper to layer over the cardstock. Consider cutting a sheet of Valentine's Day themed paper into strips to use as a border around the cardstock or into shapes to use as accents.
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Adorn the Valentine's with embellishments like stickers, small die cuts, sequins, buttons, paper flowers or acrylic shapes. You can also create a design with liquid glue and then sprinkle glitter over the surface and tap off the excess.
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Add a Valentine's Day message to the back of the cardstock with colorful pens, sticker letters or rubber stamps and ink.
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Use sharp scissors to make two small horizontal cuts in the center of the Valentine, one above the other about an inch apart. Carefully slip a Pixy Stix through the holes so it will resemble a small sign. If you're having trouble threading it through, make the holes a little wider so you won't bend or tear the paper stick.
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Consider making several of the Valentine's for a loved one, adding a different message to the back of each. Add song lyrics, famous quotes, inside jokes and other cute phrases that she'll appreciate. Gather them into a vase like a bunch of flowers or wrap them in colorful tissue and tie it shut with a piece of pretty ribbon.
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